Year 3 and 4 - Supporting your child at home
Useful websites
www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk
Useful Textbooks
The Terrific Times Table Book – Kate Petty and Jennie Maizels
KS2 Maths Study Book: The Study Book – Richard Parsons
KS2 English Study Book 1&2: The Study Book – Richard Parsons
Tutor Master Helps You Write Stories – David Malindine
Mental Arithmetic Book 2: Key Stage 2, Years 7-11 – T.R.Goddard
Igniting Writing Series: Writing for 7-11 - Sue Palmer and Pie Corbett
Oxford Primary Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling Dictionary by Oxford Dictionaries
Collins Easy Learning Age 7-11(KS2 Science)
Recommended Reads...
Mr. Popper’s Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater
Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters – The Graphic Novel by Rick Riordan
The Great Cat Conspiracy – Katie Davies
Cartoon Kid (Laugh Your Socks Off) – Jeremy Strong
Blackout – Robert Swindells
The Search for Wondla – Tony Diterlizzi
Horrible Histories
Horrible Science
Jungle Book – Rudyard Kipling
Tips for Reading with your Child
Make time to share books with your child. Listen to them read, listen to audio books together and try to chat about reading
Have a range of reading materials available - books, websites, magazines, newspapers, apps
Be a role model and show how reading can help you follow your interests
Read between the lines. Talk about what you have read to help your child understand what they have read in different ways. Talk about the issues/themes, are there other things happening underneath what the author is saying? What is the author not telling us?
Research things together. Use the internet, the library as well as books. Talk to them about what information they can find.
Questions to ask . . .
Have you read any other stories with a similar theme?
Have you read any other stories that have openings like this?
What makes you think that?
What words give you that impression?
Do you agree with . . . . . opinion?
What do you think the writer intended?
How has the author used . . . . (e.g. adjectives)
What do these words mean?
Why do you think the author chose to use those words?
Why do you think the author chose this setting?
What evidence is there to support your view?
What does the word . . . (e.g. slam) imply?
Why did the character behave like that?
Useful Apps
Mr Thorne’s Spell book
Pirate Treasure Hunt
Motion Math HD Fractions
Pettson’s Inventions
Moldiv