1. Aims: 1.To explain how reading is taught and promoted at Almondsbury. 2. Present some of the ways you can help your child’s reading progress at home. 3. Look at our new reading scheme and show you how it works.

2. How do children learn to read? Phonics – this is one of the first that we teach. Learning how to recognise sounds and blending them to make a word. Picture clues – using the illustrations to make a sensible guess at a word if phonics doesn’t work or the word is too long. Sight vocabulary – building up a instant recognition of words that they can read without using phonics Context – using the skill of reading on to guess the word, using comprehension skills. phonics skills of segmenting and blending knowledge of the alphabet + =

3. How is reading taught at Almondsbury? 1.Specific phonics teaching. 2.Modelling, shared and guided reading. 3.Children are heard read individually and in guided groups. Comprehension skills:  Understand, describe, select or retrieve information from texts.  Deduce or infer or interpret information, events or ideas from the text.  Identify and comment on the structure and organisation of texts.  Explain and comment on the writers use of language  Find and comment on writers’ purposes and viewpoints and the overall effect of the text on the reader.

4.  Teacher works with 4-6 students in each group.  Children are grouped according to similarities in reading ability.  Using a range of text types, the teacher introduces strategies, and concepts to increase independent fluency and understanding.  Every child reads aloud and is supported by the teacher and the group.  Stickers will be put in Reading Record books every week, indicating the text and the focus covered. What is Guided Reading?

6. What are the benefits of guided reading?  Pupils develop into independent readers while being supported by the teacher and the group.  Reading skills can be taught and reinforced.  The teacher can keep a running of record of responses made by individuals and assess their progress in key areas of reading development.

7. What might the other pupils be doing during guided reading sessions?  Follow up activity linked to the reading session the day before, or phonics / spelling activities.  Listening Centre or choosing from the class reading area.  Pre-reading task to prepare for Guided Reading

8. What about when my child is a fluent reader? Continuing the Learning Journey… To improve pace and fluency, children need to: - Use punctuation properly (full stops, commas) - Use speech marks and exclamation marks to change expression - Make predictions based on what has been read so far - Find clues in the text, which imply inferred meaning (reading between the lines). - Find the meanings of unknown words - Give views and opinions on events in the text.

9. How can you create a culture of ‘Reading for Pleasure’? Model a joy of reading at home! - Have books around the house. - Don’t just sound out the words, but talk to them about what they are reading. - Make sure they have their own books that are cared for. - Introduce new types of books into their collection by visiting the or swapping books. - Have favourites books – and don’t be afraid to read them again and again.

10. Here is our New ‘Bug Club’ Reading Scheme Comics

11. Fiction

12. Non Fiction

13. Colour / L e v el Bug Club FictionBug Club Non – Fiction Bug Club Comics / Graphic Novels Additional Books Including ORT (Please List Titles) Lilac ( P h a s e 2)  I Want to Play This!  Tyres for Ted  Harry and the Dinosaurs at the Seaside  Oh No!  Fun at the Beach  Night to Day n/a  ORT Stage 1 Stories Pink A ( P h a s e 2)  Help I am Wet!  Look Up, Look Down!  Harry and the Dinosaurs had Fun  Hop, Swim and Run  Dig and Tip n/a  ORT Stage 1 First Words  Trains A Pink B ( P h a s e 2)  Harry and the Dinosaurs Like …  What is in my Net?  It is Hot  Look at Lego City  At the Funfair  ORT Stage 1 +  ORT Stage 1 First Phonics  Trains B

14. Reading Stage Bookmark Each child will have one of these to keep.

15. Reading Reward Bookmark

16. Individual Reading Books Key Points: Children will be listened to twice a term in order to assess their individual book reading level. Children will be allocated a maximum of four books to read, and they will be changed each week. Please ensure ALL reading is recorded in the reading records, with comments. In KS1 bookmarks need to be dated when your child has read.