10 th October 2012
How we teach children to read Is reading just about decoding? Hearing reading in school How you can help Common concerns Any questions? Opening of classrooms to look at the resources available.
Some definitions- A phoneme – This is the smallest unit of a sound in a word. How many phonemes can you hear in the word cat? A grapheme – These are the letters that represent the phoneme. The grapheme could be 1letter, 2 letters or more. We call these Sound Buttons.
CVC words are made up of single letter sounds. c-a-t d-o-g m-a-t b-e-d Blending and segmenting – splitting the words into their sounds and blending to read the unfamiliar word. n- igh-t t-r-ai-n sh-ee-p Sound buttons
because- birds eat cake and uncles suck eggs people – people eat oranges penguins lay eggs Making up your own mnemonic for tricky words, can help children to remember the spellings.
1. Phonic knowledge 2. Little words in big words- e.g. Independent 3. Context, miss out and read words before/ after- what makes sense? 4. Look at the pictures for help.
Texts sent home not hard enough for child. Is my child where he/she should be with regard to reading. Child choosing same book again.
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