Welcome! CCPS Reading Workshop November 2016

1. Welcome! CCPS Reading Workshop November 2016 Please help yourself to refreshments

2. Who am I? • Sara Owens • Year 2 Class Teacher • English Leader at CCPS

3. What is the purpose of this workshop? • To advise you on how to help your child with their phonics learning, fluency of their reading and understanding of what they are reading. • To give you an understanding of how phonics is taught and give you information on the Year 1 phonics screening check. • To supply you with strategies and resources you can use to help your child at home. • To answer any questions you may have about how reading is taught in school.

4. What is Phonics and why is it taught in schools? “Synthetic phonics offers the vast majority of young children the best and most direct route to becoming skilled readers and writers” Sir Jim Rose Rose Review of Reading 2006

5. Learning the initial sounds • Before your child is able to read simple words, he or she will need to have a good understanding of the ‘initial sounds’.

6. How can I help my child to learn the initial sounds? • ‘pure’ sounds is essential • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J2Ddf_0Om8 • ‘m’

7. Strategies to help your child remember letter formation • ‘magic finger’ • Rhymes • Chalk • Sand • Water bottles • Pencil and paper!

8. Blending • When your child can recall the initial sounds, they can then start to blend these sounds to read words. f-a-n t-a-p c-o-t d-i-g

9. Moving onto more complex sounds

10. How you can help your child to learn all of the sounds that make up words? • ‘ay’ play day say Sunday tray

11. High frequency ‘tricky’ words • There are some words that cannot be sounded out using phonics strategies. These are sometimes called ‘tricky words,’ lots of them make up the ‘high frequency’ words.

12. Comprehension (understanding) • It is vitally important that your child understands what he or she is reading. • Regularly question your child on what they are reading to check their understanding. What do you think is going to happen? Why? What do you think this character is like? Why? Can you retell the story?

13. Questions to help understanding and to promote talk with your child

14. Year 1 Phonics Screening Check • In June 2012 a year 1 ‘Phonics Screening Check’ was introduced. All schools must take the test. If children do not pass the test it is re-taken in year 2. • The test is made up of real and ‘nonsense’ words, containing the sounds that children have been learning. • To pass, a child must score 33 out of 40.

15. Once phonics is mastered… • We endeavour for children to be reading with more fluency by the end of year 1. • Comprehension becomes a large part at this stage. Just because your child can read the book, does not automatically mean they understand what they are reading. • Keep questioning your child on the plot / characters / their thoughts (see questions support sheet).

16. End of KS1 reading assessments • Consists of reading paper 1 and reading paper 2. • Could be fiction / non fiction / poetry. • Children have to answer questions on what they have read.

17. How can I help my child at home? • Read them a bedtime story and discuss the book. • Have a regular routine for reading with them (do not make this a ‘chore’). • Try not to say a word for them if they are struggling (give them the time to work it out using their sounds around 20-30 seconds before you help). • Talk about signs when driving, recipes when cooking and magazines. Reading is FUN! • Question your child on what they are reading. • PRAISE THEM!

18. Questions?