The gateway to learning Reading The gateway to learning

When is reading taught? Daily morning sessions 15 minutes, increasing through the year And everywhere else, home and school!

How do the children learn? Highly structured sessions Fast paced New sound each day Review of previously learned sounds Blending sounds into words

What is the curriculum used? “While we're teaching them this nightmare alphabetic code, we should give them simple books to read, but the richest books to hear. Phonics is just the quickest route to reading real books.” Ruth Miskin, Read Write Inc. What is the curriculum used? Synthetic phonics: teaching reading by first teaching the letter sounds and then building up to blending these sounds together to achieve full pronunciation of whole words (decoding). Practice of decoding the same word several times, puts the word into the store of words we recognise on sight. Meaning of words discussed and understood.

Stages Set 1 – simple and common sounds eg. m, a, s, d, sh, ch, ng Set 2 – sounds made with two or three letters eg. igh, oo, oy Set 3 – complex sounds: one sound with many ways to write it eg. ai (rain), a-e (make), ay (tray) Ditty books Story books Writing books

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Decoding words Understanding text + = Reading

The tools we use Home reading book – current stage indicated by colour strip Changed in school, two books once a week Handbook for Learning – the place to record what you read at home

How you can help… Value books at home Borrow and buy books they like Stretch your repertoire Enjoy reading to them Find something you want to read yourself Talk about the sounds they’re learning Share their school books with them Reading in the environment e.g. road signs, shop names. Scribing their stories/role play and reading it back to them