My child can read' What do I do next

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My child can read.What do I do next?
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Most children as they come into the Junior class
are at level 2 or 3. They are quite confident at
reading on their own and have some strategies for
decoding unknown text. They can read. But as
you can see there is still quite a way to go.
There are many skills that we as adult readers
take for granted and dont always realise that
children havent yet developed. The art of
reading becomes quite complex.
Younger readers are focusing more on phonics as a
way of decoding text and understanding how
stories work. Higher level reading involves
looking much deeper within the text,
understanding what the author is trying to
portray and relying on more than just sounding
out as a strategy when getting stuck. Lets look
at how the fluency develops first of all and then
discuss childrens understanding of text.
Reading Strategies
Ways forward
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Reading strategies

• Phonics - reading words by distinguishing between
  sounds in words (e.g. sh-oo-t) and recognising
  how that sound is represented by a letter or
  letters of the alphabet.
• Contextual - working out how to read words by
  making connections with previous knowledge of
  words or situations (e.g. reading woof in a
  story about a dog) or looking at the
  illustrations.
• Grammatical - working out how to read words from
  a knowledge of how sentences work (e.g. he likes
  jam not he like jam).
• Word recognition - recognising individual words
  or parts of words by sight. (High frequency word
  list)

Back
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So What Can We Do?

• At Home
• The main thing is to still listen to your
  child/ren read and enjoy sharing a book together.
• Ask your child a range of questions about the
  plot, setting, characters, the general ideas
  developed in the story, how the author has used
  particular words to create effects and images,
  how the story is organised- again to give
  particular effects, how the story might develop
  and why .
• Encourage your child/ren to select sentences or
  phrases to back up their idea.
• Discuss the range of vocabulary - they may be
  able to read the word but do they know what it
  means?
• Share a range of books with your child/ren both
  different genres eg. Fantasy, adventure, science
  fiction and non-fiction books.
• Encourage your child/ren to learn the high
  frequency words for their age range.
• At School
• All of the children will be set individual
  reading targets to help them move onto the next
  step.
• We are introducing a new reading diary
• Weekly guided reading sessions will be in place
  focusing on key skills and comprehension.