How Can Parents/Caregivers Help?

Parental support greatly increases student achievement. Help your child be the best they can be.
Remember learning to read is a complex and difficult task that takes time.

  1. Commit to working with your child for 10-15 minutes each night.
  2. Download the appropriate BPP sound book and work through the sounds before and after reading. (2 minutes)
  3. When mastered, download the next sound book.
  4. Revise sounds regularly to ensure mastery.
  5. Listen to your child read each night for 10 minutes.
  6. Always be encouraging and positive.
  7. Encourage your child to sound unknown words.
  8. If your child is just learning, read the page first, sound unknown words and ensure success. (teach not test)
  9. Focus on the improvement achieved.
  10. Continue to hear your child read, throughout primary school.
  11. Record any unknown words, sound and discuss meanings.
  12. Play concentration games to help students learn unknown words.
  13. Revisit unknown words until mastered.
  14. Practice sounding and writing highlighted spelling words.
  15. The focus is always on phonetic sounds rather than memorising single letters.

 

A repetitive, daily teaching focus will support deep understanding and a transfer to long term memory.

*Aim for 7 nights a week, this will ensure at least 5 nights.