Home Reading Programme

© NET Section, CDI, EDB, HKSAR 130 Section 9: Home Reading Programme

© NET Section, CDI, EDB, HKSAR 131 Section 9: Home Reading Programme

school year. The same information is contained in the Home Reading Booklet.

The schools will be provided with enough copies of the Home Reading Booklet for each student for each year. Students and parents will be asked to complete pages, such as the one below. Students will also use their My First Dictionary to write down words that they can read and write. The booklet may be included with the Student Portfolio contents when reporting to parents.

A page from the Home Reading Booklet

A home reading bag should be provided by the schools or the parents for each student and it will contain:

• the borrowed books

• Home Reading Booklet

• My First Dictionary

• tape or CD with a recording of the text of the borrowed book (if necessary).

No Date *Title Do you like it? How many

times I have read the book?

(1, 2, 3 …)

Parent’s Signature 家長簽署

# Parent’s Remarks 家長備註 (9) in the appropriate

bracket 在適當的括號內加

上(9)

1 ( ) A

( ) B ( ) C ( ) D

2 ( ) A

( ) B ( ) C ( ) D

3 ( ) A

( ) B ( ) C ( ) D

4 ( ) A

( ) B ( ) C ( ) D

* Books with Tapes # A. I read to my child. B. My child read to me. C. My child read with me. D. My child read alone.

我唸書給孩子聽 孩子唸書給我聽 與孩子一同閱讀 孩子自行閱讀

© NET Section, CDI, EDB, HKSAR 132 Section 9: Home Reading Programme

9.4 Roles and Responsibilities

Teachers and CA will work together to complete the following:

Time Things to do

Before the school year begins • organise a system for storing books

• make sure each student has a home reading bag, Home Reading Booklet and My First Dictionary

• organise and deliver Parent Workshop with AT

• have the audio CDs ready for the home readers (optional)

At the start of the first term • set up the returning and borrowing procedure in the first co-planning meeting:

- who is giving out and collecting the books

- the day when students bring their book bags back to school

• give the Parent Guidelines to the parents before and/or with the first borrowed book/booklet about the HRP

• provide opportunities for students to develop a home reading routine during class

During the second term • send home a questionnaire for collecting information about the student’s home reading environment.

This questionnaire will help teachers decide on the support that some students may need to ensure the success of the HRP

• provide opportunities for students to conference periodically about their book choices

• match the students to book levels (students at independent level 3 or above need to take home commercially bought levelled books)

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Students

Each student will:

• take home two books once a week to read independently

• read the books to himself/herself and also aloud to someone at home

• spend at least 10-15 minutes a day reading, either the home reading books or other books in English

• read the books aloud to someone else, e.g. a friend, sibling, parent, pet or favourite toy

• talk about the books to someone at home

• look after the borrowed books

• pack the home reading bag, making sure it contains the borrowed books, the Home Reading Booklet and the tape or CD (if included)

• return the books to the assigned place before the Literacy Session.

Parents/Guardians Parents/Guardians will:

• spend time reading to/with their child every day

• show their child how to take care of the borrowed books and remind him/her to do so

• make sure their child returns the borrowed books before each literacy session

• complete and sign the entries into the child’s Home Reading Booklet

• help their child write words the child can read in My First Dictionary

• help their child pack the home reading bag on the day the home reading books need to be returned

• support the development of their child’s English reading skills and strategies

• share with their child his/her reading successes

• encourage their child to read independently and silently

• provide a quiet, comfortable space for reading

• provide other sources of English reading material.

See Section 10: Parent Support for more details about the roles and responsibilities of parents.

Home Reading Conferencing

The following are a list of suggested questions that the teachers or the CA may use for a discussion of books read at home.

• Was it a story or an information book?

• Was it easy to read?

• Did you like the story? Why?

• Did you have any difficulties? What were they?

• Will you read it again? Why?

• What was your favourite page? Why?

• What was the book about?

• Who would like to read this book?

• Did you share this book? Who with?

• What did you do when you came to a word you didn’t know?

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9.5 Procedure for Borrowing Books

9.6 Information for Parents

The following pages include information that can be used as handouts for parents to support their child with the Home Reading Programme, and the questionnaire that can be sent home to collect information about the student’s home reading environment.

This questionnaire will help teachers decide on the support that some students may need to ensure the success of the HRP. The information should be distributed at the parent workshops.

After a week, the students return their books to a designated place for their class before the Literacy Session.

Teacher/CA/monitor makes sure books have been returned, checks the entries in the Home Reading Booklet and then replaces them where they are usually stored in the Reading Room before the Literacy Session.

Each student is given books during the Literacy Session with guidance from the teacher/CA/monitor. Student’s name and book names are recorded in the Home Reading Booklet.

© NET Section, CDI, EDB, HKSAR 135 Section 9: Home Reading Programme