A part of homework every week is to read 4 times a week, the children all have a reading book which they take home as well as
allocated to them on Bug Club. When reading with the children, please ask some key questions to help them further develop their
understanding of what they have read.

Please find below some questions to ask your children whilst reading.

Before reading

• What can you see on the front cover?
• What might this book be about?
• Can you find the title?
• What might the book be about?

During reading

Encourage the children to talk about the pictures and what is happening in the story. They may also like to join in with the repeated words and phrases.

• What is happening on this page?
• What might happen next?
• What does this word mean?
• Do you like…?
• What might happen at the end of the story?

After reading

Encourage the children to talk about what happened in the book.

• What happened in the story?
• What happened to the characters?
• What did you find out?
• Did you like this book? Why? Why not?
• What was your favourite part?
• What was your favourite character?