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Join us on October 4th to learn about how we teach literacy skills at Charlton and discover ways to help your child with reading and writing at home. Together, let's nurture successful and happy readers and writers!
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Aims of this meeting • To tell you about HOW we teach Literacy skills at Charlton. • To help you to help your child with their reading and writing at home. • To ensure that we are working together to help your children become successful and happy readers…and writers!
What do children need to be able to do BEFORE they can read and write?
How you can help… • Talk with your child and share experiences together. Encourage them to think, wonder and ask questions. • Talk to them about their day. Use ‘Tapestry’ as a starting point to discuss what they do at school • Encourage your child to verbally respond to questions. • Play games such as ‘I spy’, listen for sounds in the environment. • Play with language. Don’t shy away from using ‘big’ words. Children love them.
How do we teach reading at school? • We promote a love of books. • We read a class story at least twice a day. During quiet time, we share a book with a small group. Once they have a ‘reader’, we aim to hear them read 1:1 once a week. • Primarily, we use a phonics based approach to our teaching. • We also encourage children to build up a bank of sight words – also called key words and tricky words • We incorporate reading opportunities into their play – both inside and outside.
Sharing books at home • Make time for books. Make sure it is part of your daily routine. Bed time is always a good time to share a story. • Share and enjoy this time. Discuss the pictures. Use open ended questions i.e. ‘What do you think will happen next…’ ‘I wonder why…’ • Remember, children LOVE repetition. If they want the same story for nights on end, that is okay! Maybe one night, they can tell you the story. • Use the library books from school. Visit the library. • Comics, Where’s Wally?, Picture and wordless books are great – don’t dismiss them. • Look for print in the environment.
What is phonics? • Words are made up from small units of sound called phonemes. Phonics teaches children to be able to listen carefully and identify the sounds that make up each word. This helps children to learn to read words and to spell words through… • Recognising letters (graphemes) and the sounds that they make. • Blending to read words. • Segmenting to spell words. • At Charlton we have a daily phonics session where children practise these skills.
Phase 1 phonics • During the first stage of teaching phonics, we focus on developing the children’s listening skills. How? • Music – different sounds that instruments make. • Listening to rhymes and rhyming books. • Learning nonsense rhymes, nursery rhymes etc. • Playing sound lotto games. • Going for listening walks.
Phase 2 sounds-Letter names Versus sounds-How do we say the sounds?
Using the sounds to blend (read) and segment (spell) • We blend words to read by putting the sounds back together. • c-a-t • m-a-n • f-i-sh • Fl-ow-er • We segment words to spell them by breaking up the words into the sounds…
What are key words and tricky words? • Key words are words that are the most common words. • We practise these words regularly so that children can begin to instantly recall them rather than sounding them out. • Of course, English is a tricky language, so not all words can be taught through phonics… • Phase 2 tricky words I, go, to, the • Phase 3 tricky words he, we, be, she, me, was you, all, my, they, are, her
When will we send home a ‘reading scheme’ book? • Reading scheme books are only given out when your child is ready; when we feel that your child will be able to start sounding out and blending words. • Choose a book with your child – not for them. • Try to choose a variety of books – a diet of Biff Chip and Kipper is not enough! • There is NO rush. Please don’t make your child’s reading development into a competition with other children. Like everything else, they develop at their own pace • Practise regularly (once a day ideally). Ask your child ‘when’ they are going to read – not if they would like to. If we have sent a reading scheme book home, it means they are ready for this. We can teach the skills but have a limited amount of opportunities to practise those skills. • Please fill in the reading record, even if you just date and sign it.
What about writing? • Reading and writing are interlinked, but children need to be physically ready to write, and have a desire to do so. • Don’t put pressure on your child to write, but if they want to, then encourage it… • How can you help them? • Any activities that promote fine motor – playdough, plasticine, baking, threading, using scissors, whisking, construction etc. • Let them mark make- put the Ipad away for a bit! • For name writing use the handwriting formation sheet. Praise, praise, praise!
