1. Supporting your child with their progress in Reading and Writing.

2. Literacy starts with language
Skills for talk
Playing with words- Songs and rhymes, rhyming games, alliteration
Story Time- joining in and talking about
Language for creating stories
Learning grammar conventions, tenses
Developing oral sentence structure

3. How you can support language development at home
Talk, talk and more talk
Make time for quality talk beyond ‘business talk’ ensuring background noise is minimal
Gentle correcting and modelling
Encourage good skills for speaking and listening at home
Help your child to develop language for creating stories by reading to them daily, supporting and encouraging small world and pretend play.

4. Phonics What are Synthetic phonics?
Systematic phonic work involves teaching the children the correspondence between units of sound in spoken language, phonemes and letters, graphemes in written language In synthetic phonics these are taught in a clearly defined sequence and at pace.
Research has shown that this is the most effective way for children to learn to read and write

5. Phonics- How we teach it at School
Everyday new phoneme inputs, Fridays tricky word work
Progression of sounds (phonemes) - rapid input with pace within sessions
The Importance of correct sounds for blending
Handwriting linked to the letters
Robot talk – oral blending and segmenting
Reading words- sound buttons
Building then writing words, eventually into captions and sentences

6. How you can support your child with their phonic development at home
Practice phonemes and letters in Home Learning folders
Playing phonic/word games and simple word books sent home
Play some of the traditional games such as eye spy, point out words and letters you see, select words for them to read with you
Support them to write letters with correct formation

7. How you can support reading work, and word work at home
Practice reading ‘tricky’ words we send home
Support your child to sound out- sound buttons
Encourage them to look at the pictures to help them
If the are struggling too much on a word just say it for them
Repetition is vital to gain flow and then from this comprehension
Ask questions about what they have read e.g. what colour was the…? What did…say?

8. Use of tricky words- a tricky word is one that is not phonetic i. e
Use of tricky words- a tricky word is one that is not phonetic i.e. you cannot sound it out. These are words the children need to learn by sight for e.g. The, I, go, no, my, to

9. How you can support at home
Support your child in practicing saying them daily
Point them out when reading books
Practice writing them once they are confident with reading them

10. Reading at school
Children all learn to read at different paces…its not a race it’s a journey
Children read everyday at school within phonics time in differentiated input and games in reading time its not always about the reading book.
Reading group books and activities are closely differentiated according to the children's ability to blend sounds and their phonic ability
Children are regularly assessed to ensure the level the are working at is appropriate, to ascertain their skills for reading and identify their next steps
Book change for parents will be happening after half term on a Wednesday and will be a mixture of game pages and books dependent on your child’s current level.

11. How you can support reading at home As parents you are your child's most influential teacher with an important part to play in helping your child to learn to read. Here are some suggestions on how you can help to make this a positive experience
Read to them as regularly as possible, never sacrifice reading to them for hearing them read.
Encourage the child to join in with the words when you read
It's not just books, magazines, online stories, packaging, non-fiction
Comprehension- There is more to being a good reader than just being able to read the words accurately.

12. Supporting them with their reading activity or book at home
Try to read with your child on most school days. 'Little and often' is best.
Always be positive- Constant praise.
Remember 'Nothing succeeds like success‘ pushing on too quickly can have the opposite effect.
Encourage your child to follow the words with their finger and sound out the words (c-a-t: cat).
Encourage them to look at clues in the pictures
Support them with reading longer words by helping them split the word into 2 or more sections.
Communicate- Your child has a reading log, try to communicate regularly with positive comments. Your child will then know that you are interested in their progress and that you value their reading.

13. As they become more fluent encourage them to use expression in their voice when reading
Discuss the punctuation and the effect that has on how we read e.g. use of exclamation marks
Point out ‘tricky’ words in the text

14. Developing Physical abilities for Handwriting

15. Developing Handwriting at School
Daily Hand Gym
Handwriting- associated saying with letters
Joining of diagraphs e.g. oo or ay
Lead ins are shown when the children have a good grasp of correct formation of letters
Targets- letters on line, size, formation, hanging letters

16. Developing skills for writing
Motivation!
Purpose for writing
Hold a sentence
Sentence structure- punctuation
Developing ideas for writing
Developing confidence and independence
Targets for next time- next steps

17. How you can support your child with their writing skills at home
Provide mark making opportunities including using scissors
Encourage correct formation but be positive
Encourage independence
Writing for a purpose
Encourage them to spell the ‘tricky words’ you know they know, correctly

18. Please ask if you have any queries or need advice we are always happy to help.
Many thanks for coming!!!!