At Home
Do:
  • Make reading with your child a happy, cosy time
  • Try to hear your child read for ten minutes, at least three times a week
  • Sometimes share reading with your child—you read a page, your child reads a page
  • Talk together about the book.
Children Talking About Reading at Home
  • “I feel all warm when I read to my Mum” ~ Amy
  • “When I read with my Mum we have five minutes peace, just like in the story” ~ Priti
  • “Now I read with my Dad I am getting better at reading” ~ Abby
  • “It’s cosy when we read, and we turn the TV off” ~ Dilip
  • “I like getting my Mum’s attention for a bit” ~ Jamie
  • “I feel special when my Dad sits and reads with me” ~ Brandon
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This leaflet provides information for parents or carers at schools where children are having BRWP
BRWP:
  • is for pupils who have made a start to reading and writing but need extra support to become better readers and writers
  • is a one to one programme built around your child’s needs
  • provides daily support for your child
    (or at least three times a week)
  • teaches important reading and writing behaviours and phonic knowledge
  • teaches your child to read in phrases with understanding
  • includes adult-child talk about books to help pupils’ language development

Who is BRWP for?
It’s for pupils in Y1-8 who have made a start to reading and writing but need extra support to succeed. BRWP will help your child’s language skills and aims to boost confidence in class.
Who delivers BRWP?
  • It’s 1:1 teaching for your child which ideally happens daily to make fast progress (or at least three times a week)
  • Teaching Assistants receive special training to teach BRWP
  • BRWP lasts for about 12-15 weeks
  • Each lesson takes 20 minutes a day and is individually designed around your child
What happens in a BRWP lesson?
  1. Your child reads some familiar books that they have read before. This helps to improve fluency, confidence and understanding.
  2. Your child reads yesterday’s new book
  3. Some letters, sounds and words work is done based around the books your child reads
  4. Your child reads a new book or does a piece of writing
/ Some key skills we teach in BRWP.
  1. We help pupils to look at words in different ways, often magnetic letters are used.

  1. When children read we make sure they can:
  2. notice when they get a word wrong
  3. repeat to have another go if they get stuck
  4. correct themselves
  5. know that reading has to make sense and look right
  6. sound words out when they need to
  1. We help children to read in phrases so that reading sounds a bit like talking. Reading in phrases helps children to understand a book more.
  1. We talk together about plot, characters and vocabulary so that children understand the books they read
/ Writing
In writing we help children:
  • to think of a sentence and remember it
  • to spell lots of words
  • to re-read and check their writing and make it interesting
BRWP in Leicester City
Each year there are around 400 pupils on BRWP in city schools.
At the start and end of BRWP we do some assessments so we can tell how much pupils have improved.
On average children made approx 14 months reading age progress in 12 weeks.
At the end of a child’s BRWP lessons, we ask parents about how BRWP has helped.
Parents - how to help
What Research tells us
Children who read regularly at home with adults learn to read faster than children who only read in school. Reading at home at least three times a week will help your child become a better reader.
Good readers often enjoy school more which helps them be confident and positive with other children and adults.