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2. Build confidence and self-esteem

The POPS Reading Programme offers your child many opportunities to savour success. Catch and celebrate this success together! Ask him to show you again, and give lots of positive reinforcement. We all like to participate when we are successful, and this programme seeks to build the child’s self-esteem as they experience success, whatever their reading level.

Every page in the book has been designed to offer lots of opportunities for success:

1. A little elephant, called Boo, is hidden in each illustration: a child who enjoys supported reading can independently find the elephant and be praised for this achievement.
2. A child who is beginning to read and has a small sight vocabulary can be given one or two Word Cards from the set supporting the book, and be successful in matching the Word Card to the word when it appears in the text or in the green box at the bottom of each text page.
3. Games are provided at the back of each book for reinforcement and revision; your child may want you to read the story to them, allowing them to play the games.
4. Some children may be able to read the first page (Shared Reading page), a more difficult page designed to be read together by the child and the teacher or parent.