How to help your child with reading

1. How to help your child with reading The stages of reading development How we teach reading at St Peters How you can help at home

2. Stages of Reading The emergent reader • knows that the text goes from left to right • can blend • uses picture for clues • retells a simple story which is read to them • knows names of letters • identifies initial and final sounds • understands the difference between letters and words • notices and reads environmental print • reads one word at a time • selects simple repetitious books • reads favourite books over and over • make predictions

3. Stages of Reading Early Reader • tells main idea • makes predictions and explain why things happen • identifies main characters • begins to differentiate between fact and fiction • identifies high frequency words • some awareness of medial vowel sounds • uses context clues • begins to self correct • understands the meaning of . ? ! • selects a variety of books • begins to feel confident when reading silently or orally

4. Stages of reading Fluent Reader • recognises plot, problem and solution in a story • evaluates character's actions or behaviors • uses a variety of clues to decode unfamiliar words • identifies blends, digraphs, • applies vowel rules to sound out words • uses punctuation correctly • reads smoothly, with expression and phrasing • selects a wide variety of books, may select chapter books • confident • enjoys sharing favourite books • enjoys challenges  • selects reading during free time • summarises main events of a story

5. Stages of reading “Please remember every child learns at a different pace.”

6. How we teach children to read at St Peter's “Children need to learn to read before they can read to learn.”

7. How we teach reading at St Peter's • Individual reading • Guided Reading • Shared Reading

8. How we teach reading at St Peter’s 3 aspects to reading… • Word recognition • Grammar • Comprehension

9. How we teach reading at St Peter’s • Once a child can work out the words (decode) he can then begin to sort out the message (comprehend). • If he can’t decode the words, he can’t begin to understand.

10. How we teach reading at St Peter’s • That’s where phonics comes in… • 44 sounds • We teach children to read and write them. • (Unfortunately, they can be spelt in different ways.)

11. How we teach reading at St Peter’sThe 44 phonemes

12. How we teach reading at St Peter’s Blending for reading What to do when a child gets stuck on a word? Sound it out. Split the word into parts/syllables.-If the word contains a sound they don’t know, then tell them!-Don’t forget some words can’t be fully sounded out, so help them! (Don’t forget picture clues and meaning).

13. How we teach reading at St Peter’s What happens when a word isn’t phonically decodable? • Encourage them to look for other clues (visual clues, initial sounds/final sounds, grammatical). • Tell them!

14. How we teach reading at St Peter’s Keywords and high frequency words

15. How we teach reading at St Peter’s Reading for meaning Discuss the book! • Who, what, where, when questions • Why do you think…? • What would you do if….? • How do you know…?

16. How you can support your child's reading • Find a quiet time • Make reading enjoyable • Maintain the flow • Be positive • Success is the key • Visit the library • Regular practise • Communicate • Talk about books • Variety is important

17. How you can support your child's reading Play games Word building games, like magnetic letters on the fridge. I spy to notice initial and final sounds Sound buttons games to encourage the segmenting of words.

18. How you can support your child's reading Useful websites: http://www.ictgames.com/literacy.html http://www.crickweb.co.uk/Early-Years.html http://www.starfall.com/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/websites/4_11/site/literacy.shtml

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