On Tuesday 6 June, the Kindergarten, Year One and Year Two teachers will be running a Parent Reading Session from 4-5pm. 

During this session, we will discuss the main assessment we use to assess your child’s reading development. This assessment is called DIBELS (Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills). We will discuss how DIBELS helps us to identify skills that need to be developed for a child to successfully read. For those parents who come to the session we will provide their child’s results in a parent report. We will discuss the report in detail and give you strategies to easily and quickly support your child in these areas at home. Unfortunately, if you do not attend we will be unable to give you this report as it requires explanation. This session will take place in the hall with all parents/carers that attend from Kindergarten to Year 2. 

For the second part of the session, each parent/carer will move to their child’s classroom. During this session, the year level teachers will discuss specific reading strategies for their year level. There will also be an opportunity for you to practise these strategies with your child and gain support from your child’s classroom teacher. 

Please bring your child with you. For the first part of the session, we will look after the students in their classrooms. You will then meet them for the second session in their classroom. 

We highly recommend that parents/carers attend this session. Your child’s reading success in the lower primary years are instrumental to their ongoing success as they grow older. Classroom teachers will also individually call parents to request they attend this session if they think it will be especially beneficial to your child.