1. Literacy in EYFS and KS1
Wednesday

2. Provide an overview of expectations
Aims
Provide an overview of expectations
Overview of some teaching methods we use in school
Give some practical tips for helping at home

3. The Curriculum:
Phonics
Reading
Writing
Grammar, Spelling, Punctuation

4. Literacy – daily diet ? EYFS Topic based approach
Daily story/songs/rhymes/ discrete phonics
KS1
Literacy lessons, Guided Reading, Handwriting, GPS lessons
Cross curricular approach using “Talk for Writing” Methods

5. Reading -Letters and Sounds
Phase 1 – awareness of rhyme and environmental sounds
Phase 2 - Using common consonants and vowels. Blending for reading and segmenting for spelling simple CVC words.
Phase 3 - Reading and spelling a wide range of CVC words words using a wider range of letters, short vowels, some consonant digraphs and double letters.
Phase 4 - bl- br- cl- dr- fl- fr- pl- sc- sm- sn- sl- sp- sw- tr-
Phase 5 -ay, ou, ie, ea, oy, ir, ue, aw, wh, ph, ew, oe, au (and alternative spellings of these graphemes eg ay/ai)
Phase 6 –reading and spelling increasingly complex words

6. Reading -Letters and Sounds
Year 1
Expected to use PHONICS FIRST
26 letters = 40+ phonemes
Read and understand words with apostrophes
Read common exception words
e.g. me, your ,they, here

7. Reading -Letters and Sounds
Year 2
Continue to use PHONICS FIRST
Read more fluently- including words of two or more syllables
Read more common exception words
e.g. eye, busy, half, climb
Read books matched to phonic knowledge, sounding out unfamiliar words confidently

8. Comprehension, Comprehension…

9. TALK about what they read
Reading at home…
Be a role model
Read REAL stuff ! Newspapers, recipes, on line, magazines, cereal packets
Read picture books – read them classic fairy tales
Retell stories, traditional stories and fairy tales
TALK about what they read
TALK,TALK,TALK

10. Questions to help…. Who is telling the story?
What are the characters called ?
What is the story about ?
Is it fiction or non –fiction ?
Describe the setting of the story
What do you think is going to happen next ?
How did the character feel when…?
Why is …. important?

11. Writing… in school
When we write we have to consider a number of aspects.
WHY (purpose)
WHO is it FOR (audience)
STORY,STORY,STORY

12. Progression in writing
EYFS
Mark making
Write taught sounds
Write own name, labels and captions by 5
Write simple sentences that can be read by themselves and others
YEAR 1
Spell days of the week. Write sentences with capital letters, full stops, question marks, exclamation marks – Use ..and to join
YEAR 2
Write about real/personal experiences, poetry, write for different purposes
Write sentences using but, because, if

13. Spelling…in school KS1 High frequency words plus NC expectation
85% of the English spelling system is predictable..
Your child will learn the rules and conventions of the system and the spelling strategies needed to become a confident speller.

14. Spelling Strategies

15. Spelling Games

16. HANDWRITING
In school we teach handwriting by sorting the letters into 2 letter families:
‘the up and over family’
The first pen stroke of these letters starts from the line with a lead in tag and moves in a clockwise direction to one o’clock.
a o c e s x letters with no ascenders or descenders
d g q z f letters with ascenders, descenders and ‘f’ which has an ascender and a descender

17. Handwriting ‘the straight up family’
The first pen stroke of these letters starts from the line with a lead in tag and proceeds in a vertical direction. These letters are:
i m n r u v w
letters with no ascenders or descenders
b h k l t j p y letters with ascenders and descenders

18. Supporting your child with Literacy
Make READING fun and REAL
Lots and Lots of TALK, questioning, using higher level vocabulary
READING to them ESPECIALLY the same story OVER AND OVER
Spelling, word searches, hangman, pointing out spelling patterns,