A warm welcome to our literacy café!

Our mission and passion…

Is to create a love of reading.

For reading to take place in a relaxed and informal setting.

For you to share quality time with your child/ren.

To have fun!

How does the literacy café look?

We’ll spend the first 15 minutes sharing literacy tips and tricks and also finding out about what you feel you would like support with.

You will then collect your child/ren.

You can choose a book/s and you can write in your reading club record if you would like to.

How does the literacy café look? – continued.

At approximately 3.10 a “Big Book” will be read to the group.

Questions will be asked to the children about the book.

Activities and worksheets will be provided in relation to the book to enhance any learning that you might like to undertake at home.

Tips and tricks in sharing a book

Ask your child what interests them – are there any books they would like to share?

Read the story to your child. As you go along you might like to

ask questions such as…

Questions you might like to ask about the story:

What do you think might happen next?

Can you retell the story? Who is their favourite character and

why? If they could change one thing

about the book what might they change?

Why do you think? What is your opinion?

What is the theme/message? How would you describe? Can you think of any other stories

like this one?

What can we do in our workbook?

You could write the title of the book and the short date e.g. 27.4.15.

You might like to ask your child/ren to draw their favourite character.

They might like to write a sentence/s about this.

They might like to draw their favourite part of the story.

Things you might like to undertake in the workbook - continued

Make a timeline of events in the book.

List all the people in the story.

List things you did not like.

Make suggestions as to how the story could be better.

Today’s story is called:

The Rainbow Fish