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5 Whenever I meet any child after school, part of our greeting is a talk about who will be reading home going with them that evening. The teachers do this in class as well - Wall charts are made: 'People who read with me', and used in maths and language work. reading home going with children at home has become a part of school lore and of home routine for almost all our families. 6 We have invested money in providing a good supply of new and relevant books for our children. They have a wide choice and really take pleasure in choosing their daily selection for home reading home going.

(b) Keep the reading home going sessions short: ten to fifteen minutes is plenty. (After all, how many children can be heard reading home going as regularly and for as long in school?) Five minutes of good reading home going experience is probably worth hours of boring struggle. And you have to consider your own time: you are less likely to be able to keep up the home reading home going if the demands you are making on yourself are too heavy.

Many schools set aside half an hour each day - first thing in the morning is a good time - for reading home going activities, during which the teacher deals with record cards and has a word with some of the children about how their reading home going at home is going. This has been found to be a very useful period: rightly used, it links home and school in a personal way for each child.