KS1 Reading Workshop Tuesday 19th September 2017 'There's no such thing as a child who hates reading. There are only children who love reading and children who are reading the wrong books. The most important role that we, as educators and parents/guardians, can play in the life of a child is to help them to find books that they enjoy so that they develop a life-long love of reading.

Aims of the Session To raise awareness of the recommended approaches to the teaching of reading in the early primary phase. • To consider some practical ways of supporting your child’s reading at home.

Main Purposes of Reading Reading is a skill that is fundamental to succeeding in school, in work and in life. To enjoy books To learn: About stories Using books for reference Learning other skills through books Understanding our world and its marvels Discovering new ways of looking at life

The Reading Curriculum at Abbots Ripton • Daily Phonics Sessions • Shared reading during lesson time • Guided Reading - daily sessions • Regular independent reading where appropriate • Home/school reading • Hearing books read aloud on a regular basis that cover a wide variety of authors • Reading in other subject areas • Reading in the community- author visits, reading with older children, reading with visitors.

The DfE states that, “Nothing is more important in education than ensuring that every child can read well…..Teaching children to read relies on an understanding of how children learn to decode and how they learn to comprehend what they have decoded.”

The Simple View of Reading

Word Recognition

Phonics • Sounds/phonemes represented by letters/graphemes • A phoneme can be represented by one or more letters (sh, th, ee) • The same phoneme can be represented in more than one way (e.g. rain, may, lake) • The same spelling may have more than one sound (e.g. mean, deaf)

Correct Articulation of Sounds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqhXUW_v-1s Cam Bug App - http://www.cambugs.co.uk/

Story Time Phonics

The Simple View of Reading

Language Comprehension Processes

Book Talk! Pre During After

Questions Literal questions Recall information Deductive or inferential questions - Work out the answer by reading between the lines Evaluative or responsive questions - Asking children to go beyond the text

Top Tips

Let them read anything and everything! (age appropriate of course!) Fiction books: - Traditional tales - Fairy stories - Fantasy stories - Adventure stories - Stories from other cultures - Series books Non – Fiction books: - Factual books - Recipe books - Instruction e.g. Lego - Atlases - Magazines/Comics - Catalogues

Don’t Force Reading Try not to ‘make’ your child read. Try not to ‘push’ your child to read.

Model Good Reading Habits Expression Enjoyment Discussion

Avoid saying: – No! – That was wrong! – That’s an easy word! – You should know that! – Try and remember. – You’ve already had it. – Think! – You know this word. – What do you mean , you’re tired? – Come on you’re not concentrating – We did that yesterday! Try to say: – I like the way you worked that out. – Get your mouth ready to say the word. – What can you hear at the beginning/ the end? – Does that make sense? – Does it look right? – Let’s try that again. – Do you know a word like that? – Look at the picture and see if it helps.

“I’m wondering what to read next.” said Matilda.