Inspiring Success Reading The Orchard School

How do children learn to read? How to help at home Questions

Reading Patience and Practice Understanding & Meaning Resilience- Risk taking Prediction Oracy Success Enjoyment, Engagement

The Searchlights model of reading strategies Text Knowledge of text Phonic (sounds and spelling) Grammatical knowledge Word recognition and graphic knowledge

Phonics 44 Phonemes Teaching of phonemes is organised in “Phases” 1-6 Children need to tune in to sound, hear, see, play, write, use them Model pure sounds Games Robot talk Phoneme frames

“Phonics is the only way of teaching reading”…..or is it? I take it you already know Of tough and bough and cough and dough Others may stumble but not you, On hiccough, thorough, lough and through, Well done! And now you wish perhaps, To learn of less familiar traps. Beware of heard, a dreadful word That looks like beard and sounds like bird, And dead: it’s said like bed, not bead- For goodness sake don’t call it dead! Watch out for meat and great and threat. (They rhyme with suite and straight and debt.) A moth is not a moth in mother, Nor both in bother, broth in brother, And here is not a match for there, Nor dear and fear for bear and pear, And then there’s done and rose and lose Just look them up- and goose and choose And cork and work, and card and ward, And font and front and word and sword, And do and go and thwart and cart, Come, come, I’ve hardly made a start!

High Frequency Words 12 make up 25% of all reading Instant recognition of whole word rather than sounding everything out Games Spotting words in text Talking about words Using them in writing, own book making Look, Cover, Write, Check

Reading – what children need Attitudes: - Confidence -Resilience- It’s ok to make mistakes and take risks -Enjoyment -Motivation! Skills: - Phonics -Tracking -Memory Knowledge -Language and Text -High Frequency Words -that “It’s worth it”! Practice!!

Tips for parents Make it a regular habit- little and often is best Find a comfortable, quiet place- no distraction Talk about the book, cover, title, pictures, what might happen? Ask questions- why? what do you think? Be PATIENT! Don’t jump in, wait, encourage, support. PRAISE all attempts- encourage risk taking Model strategies Practise listening for, looking for, enjoying and using sounds- Use the correct, pure sounds Practise high frequency words Play games to practise sounds and high frequency words Reward time Read TO your child regularly

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