Parents Training READING 1st December 2015

Why do our children need to read?

What skills do our children need?

Retrieval The dog is blue! What colour is the dog?

Inference The dog is blue! How might the dog be feeling?

Inference/Authorial intent John trudged home, his legs again blue.

Our Aims - To discuss the approaches used in school to develop reading. - To provide an overview of the progression of reading as your child/ children move through school. - To provide strategies for you to support your child/ children's reading at home.

The Reading Diet Phonics – Daily lessons for children in KS1. We teach Phonics through RWI. Comprehension Lesson – Every Monday, all classes from Year 1 – 6 complete a comprehension task. These lessons focus on teaching different comprehension skills. Guided Reading – Every week children will do a guided reading session with the teacher and a small group of children. Children will read a text. Then the teacher will ask questions and the children will have a discussion. 1:1 Reading–A teacher or teaching assistant will hear your child read at least once a week and will discuss the text you child is reading. Story Time – At the end of every day, the class will listen to a story.

Why Phonics? A complete literacy programme - systematic and structured. Meets the demands of the new national curriculum, giving your children the best chance of success in the national tests. Storybooks align with the sounds learnt in class.

A bit of technical knowledge… Phonics = the sounds in our language. Watch our sound pronunciation guide.

You can practise pronouncing sounds. Remember no ‘fuh’ and ‘luh’!

You can have fun with Fred Talk. “What a tidy r-oo-m!” “Where’s your c-oa-t?” “Time for b-e-d!”

The English language is a complex code… It would be easy if we only had to learn Set 1 and Set 2 sounds. ay igh play eight cake straight right spie kite fly Set 3 sounds

Phonics Screening Check Every Year 1 child in the country will be taking the phonics screening check in the same week in June. The aim of the check is to ensure that all children are able to read by the end of year two. If your child did not pass the screening check in Year 1 then they will take it again in Year 2.

Comprehension

Key stage 2 Reading more independently Expression used when reading Better understanding of words/ writing techniques Wider understanding/ appreciation of different genres Deduction and inference

The Reading Diet No Nonsense Spelling – 2/3 times per week spelling scheme for all children Comprehension Lesson – Every Monday, all classes from Year 1 – 6 complete a comprehension task. These lessons focus on teaching different comprehension skills. Guided Reading – Every week children will do a guided reading session with their teacher and a small group of children. Children will read a text. Then the teacher will ask questions and the children will have a discussion. 1:1 Reading–A teacher or teaching assistant will hear your child read at least once a week and will discuss the text you child is reading. Everyone Reads In Class (ERIC) -The day finished with 10-15minutes independent reading time.

By the end of year 3

By the end of year 6

If you are being asked to comment on words TOP TIPS FOR WHY HAVE THEY USED THESE WORDS? If you are being asked to comment on words Do NOT NOT NOT repeat the word or phrase they have used!!!! E.G. What does the word burst tell us about the movement – don’t say - because it was bursting through!

TOP TIPS FOR WHY HAVE THEY USED THESE WORDS? If you are being asked to comment on words – imagine you a a living thesaurus and think of other words it means! burst = quick, sharp, explosive, fast, powerful, unexpected, Then chose 2 quite different words from your mental list – e.g. quick and powerful. Then make your sentence:- “ the word burst makes the reader think that the lava is moving very quickly and is so powerful that is can break the hard rock.”

TOP TIPS FOR WHY HAVE THEY USED THESE WORDS? If you are being asked to comment on a metaphor or a simile you need to think about the meaning of the comparison. “It’s the second death of Pompeii” Death of a city = it’s being destroyed Second = it’s happened before He means that the Pompeii will be destroyed just like it was before by the volcano.

TOP TIPS FOR WHY HAVE THEY USED THESE WORDS? If you are being asked to comment on a metaphor or a simile you need to think about the meaning of the comparison. The hailstones were like golf balls hitting a tin roof. Golf balls hitting a tin roof = very loud Golf balls = white and round He means that hailstones were making a very loud sound. He could also be comparing the size of the hailstones to the size of golfballs.

TOP TIPS FOR WHY HAVE THEY USED THESE WORDS? If you are being asked to comment something a character says which sounds as if they are saying the opposite of what they mean. My precious ironing board – precious and ironing board are words that do not really go together so she is being sarcastic or humourous. I can’t wait for my delightful SATS tests! – you wouldn’t use delightful and tests together!! So the person is trying to be funny or sarcastic.

TOP TIPS FOR WHY HAVE THEY USED THESE WORDS? If you are being asked to comment on the choice of a name for something. It is usually a compound word made of two words which hold meaning. Batman – he’s called bat man because he flies like bat, dresses like a bat and he is a man. I am suffering from Sats-ache – if you ache it means you are probably ill. The Sats at the beginning of the word is telling us that it’s the Sats that are making him ill.

Text Feature Questions Year 6 Top Tips for Text Feature Questions They maybe tricky / technical words which are explained in the text or in a glossary. They have the same function as a subheading – informing the reader of what they about to read. Why are some words in bold? They may relate to a diagram or picture in which they are also included. DO NOT WRITE SO THEY STAND OUT THEY ARE IMPORTANT TO CATCH YOUR ATTENTION TO ADD EMPHASIS They could be important words such as names of places, people or jobs etc.

SATS Test 3 quite different reading papers 3 sets of questions 60 minutes