To support the teaching of reading in school, children are learning about the following VIPERS skills:

V - Vocabulary

I - Inference

P - Predict

E - Explain

R - Retrieve

S - Summarise/Sequence

In addition we hope the following links will also be useful:

• Book Talk (questions to ask your child whilst reading with them)

What is comprehension?

An introduction to reading comprehension, exploring how children build their understanding of a text using a combination of background knowledge, vocabulary, language structures and inference.

Supporting your child's reading comprehension

Understand how to develop your child's reading comprehension.

The following guidance is taken from The Book Trust.

• Guidance/ideas for parents on reading with your child(ren)
  Book Trust

• Tips for Reluctant Readers
  Book Trust

• 100 Best Books for children aged 0 - 5
  Book Trust

• 100 Best Books for children aged 6 - 8
  Book Trust

• 100 Best Books for children aged 9 - 11
  Book Trust

• Great Books Guide
  Book Trust

• Book Finder
  Tool from the Book Trust to help choose books for your child(ren)