Tuesday 20 th January 2015

Aims To share how we teach the children To share a little bit of what it is like for the children in school To find out what the children do in school and why we do things To give you some support on how you can help your child with learning

Format of the evening General learning Reading Spelling Homework Phonics Maths

Which of these children are ready to learn?

Helping your child with reading

Where do we start? Reading is important and enjoyable Share books and talk about them Develop book skills Learning to tell stories Reading words and punctuation Understanding the text on 3 levels Fluency and comprehension +

How can you help? Choose a quiet time Make it enjoyable not pressurized Maintain flow Success is the key Visit the library Regular practice and communication Talk about the books Variety

Helping your child with spelling.

Spelling Development Stage 1- Preliminary spelling Stage 2- Semi Phonetic spelling Stage 3- Phonetic spelling Stage 4- Transitional spelling Stage 5- Independent spelling

Children who have difficulty with spelling usually have no strategies up their sleeve when they get stuck on a word. Ask the question, ‘what do you do when you cannot spell a word’ and they will have, at best, one strategy... To help them become better spellers they need to acquire a range of different approaches to help them. Pie Corbett How you help?

Spelling strategies Look say cover write check Phonics - went Syllables – re-mem-ber Words within words- determination Compound words – bathroom Analogy- could Mnemonics – because necessary Prefixes and suffixes- un- dis- -ful Spelling rules- baby babies shine shiny

Make it fun! Write in different colours Decorate the tricky part Clap out patterns Say the word as it looks How many times can you write it in a minute? Draw an associated picture – look Play scrabble How many word can you make from …….?

Reading A little bit as often as possible – ideally daily Talk about the story Ask and answer questions Read a range of materials What is a good reader? After half term Bug clubBug club

Spellings Spelling – phonics is a key part to learning to read and spell. High frequency words Key stage 1 – Year 1 and 2 – sending home 5 spellings to learn per week based on an assessment At the end of the half term – retaining spellings Key stage 2 – Year 3 and 4 – high frequency words and spelling rules and patterns

Homework 5% of what they learn when they’ve learned from lecture. 10% of what they learn when they’ve learned from reading. 20% of what they learn from audio-visual. 30% of what they learn when they see a demonstration 50% of what they learn when engaged in a group discussion 75% of what they learn when they practice what they learned. 90% of what they learn when they teach someone else/use immediately..

Have a safe journey home.