Helping Your Child to Read Agenda Welcome Ice

Helping Your Child to Read

Agenda • • • Welcome Ice Breaker Learning to Read Sharing Rhymes Sharing Books Repetition What Should I Do? Making Sense of Sounds More Advanced Readers Where Can I Find Out More Information?

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Reading • Writing a shopping list • Write a list of items to pack in their suitcase • Re-tell favourite stories • Re-tell events in correct order • Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening are all connected

Rhyming • Learn and sing nursery rhymes together, this will help your child to notice the separate sounds in words • Play rhyming games and make up silly rhymes

Sharing Books The First Step to Reading (Pre – School) • Choose a quiet place – so there are no distractions from TV and radio • Choose a book which you like the look of and which you’ll enjoy reading • A book which you find boring will also bore your child • Follow the words with your finger. You are not teaching your child the mechanics of reading but they will begin to understand that those black squiggly things are important because they are telling the story.

Starting the Journey • Read aloud to your child • Read poems together • Point to the words on the page, move your finger left to right • Listen to your child read every day 5 mins • Be a positive reading role model for your child • Read stories that have repetitive phrase such as the 3 little pigs

Making Sense of Sounds • We teach sounds / phonics discretely using the Jolly Phonics format using actions and singing to support our teaching • But we follow the letters and sounds programme. (Synthetic Phonics) • Phase 1, 2 and 3 and application in Phase 4 • Digraphs and Trigraphs • Segmenting words, rather than sounding out with single sounds, sound buttons

Handwriting • Saint Joseph’s Handwriting format • Teach cursive script straight away • Warm up exercises, fine motor skills – finger jobs • Writing in different mediums, rice, sand, paint, foam, flour and water • Big writing - progress to small writing • Say what your doing… Always start on the line and go up. Trickiest is the anticlockwise movements!

Preparing for Year One Leaving Reception Expectations To read high frequency words for Reception. Most children in Surrey will be ‘Expected’ but children cannot be assessed as Expected in Reading if they are not there in S&L. Most children should be able to understand the elements of stories such as main character and read a range of familiar words and simple sentences independently. They will also be able to use a non-fiction book. Some children will be able to read books of own choice with some fluency and accuracy.

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