Reading
Parents and family members play an important role in building successful readers. Hearing your child read is vital to your child retaining and building on the skills he or she has learned in school. But most importantly, this is a time for children to engage their imaginations, find amusement in books, and to learn to love reading. We ask that your child read for at least 10 minutes a day. Books can be of any genre or on any subject that is of interest to your child.

Here are some quick tips to encourage your child’s love for reading.

• READ! READ! READ! Make reading important. Be a role-model for reading. Let your child see you reading throughout the day and use daily routines as reading opportunities. Cooking, reading TV listings, looking for information on-line, reading directions, or following a map all provide authentic reading experiences.
• Give your child the power of choice. Having reading materials available, such as: books, magazines, comics, etc… is key to helping children love to read, and the reading materials they choose themselves are best. Help your child find texts that appeal to his or her interests, yet are age appropriate and ‘just right’ in difficulty.
• Take frequent trips to the library.
• Talk it up. Talking about books during and after reading helps improve comprehension. Encourage your child to share their ideas and opinions by asking open-ended questions. Talk about what you read to let them know that reading is an important part of your life. Tell them why you liked a book, what you learned from it, or how it helped you— soon they might start doing the same.

Below are a couple of links to book suggestions for Years 5 & 6 which you might find useful as suggestions for choosing books together.

https://www.waterstones.com/category/childrens-teenage/ages-9-12
https://www.booktrust.org.uk/booklists/1/100-best-books-9-11/

Spellings
This is the list of statutory words that the Government expect your child to know by the end of their year group. They will be included in your child's spellings each week.

Please practice them regularly at home to ensure your child feels confident with them.

Word list – years 5 and 6

There is more information on the Government website, click here.