Tiverton Campus
Year 5 - 8
At Tiverton, our goal is to encourage more students to read in English and Literacy classes but also for fun at home. With the help of our Tiverton Library Staff, we hope these tips enable students to keep reading during lockdown.
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Many people bemoan the death of reading. It is a critical life skill but our online lives have meant that even as adults we tend to mostly consume snippets of information whether it be news or online content. Our eyes jump about and our concentration for longform text as adults and children is shifting. It is important that we teach the skill of reading which is crucial in his senior years and later life. Learning to read not just words and sentences but learning to sit down and concentrate.
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At school, we provide a fortnightly reading period in the library and English teachers allocate other times for reading in the classroom. De La Salle’s Libraries provide books at all levels to both support and challenge your son’s interest in reading. During his Reading Class, we aim to find the points of interest to drive your son’s reading forward.
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Strategies for parents to assist their young readers and assist him to read the whole book:
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- Provide a regular time and place for reading to create the reading habit, much as we do for music practice or sport
- Make reading before bed a life-long routine – assist this by charging phones in the living room not the bedroom as the temptation to answer the “ping” is strong
- If there are no homework tasks, make reading a part of the allocated homework activities
- Talk about reading – what book is he reading?
- Model reading – what are you reading yourself?
Martin Gibbs
Director of Students (Middle Years)
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