1. READING Information Evening For Parents
‘The most important skill any child can leave primary school with is the ability to read independently and effectively for meaning’

3. The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – that you’d thought special, particular to you and here it is, set down by someone else, a person you’ve never met, maybe even long dead. It’s as if a hand has come out and taken yours.
Alan Bennett

4. Aims
To give an insight into the development of early reading skills – (EYFS)
To show how reading skills are developed through a guided reading approach in KS1 and KS2
To learn more about the assessment of reading in primary school.
To give practical suggestions to help you to support and develop your child’s reading.

5. Think back to your early reading experiences.
Do you remember who taught you to read?
Were you encouraged to read for pleasure?
Was reading an enjoyable experience for you?
Did you have a favourite author / book?
Were you brought up in a rich reading culture?
Did you develop a life-long love of reading that is still with you today?

6. What about now?
Do you read for pleasure and enjoyment?
Do your children see you reading? (role model)
Do you encourage your children to read for pleasure and do you talk to your children about the books they are reading?
Are your children on the right path to becoming readers for life?

7. Our overriding aim must be to promote a life-long love of books and reading.
A recent survey – Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) found:
Children in England tended to report reading for pleasure less frequently than peers in many other countries.
23rd out of 29 countries in terms of pupils attitudes to reading.
1/3 of children reported reading for pleasure on a daily basis outside school.

8. 42% said they read for pleasure outside school every 2 months or less.
By the time they reach secondary school, 40% of students in the UK report that they do not read for enjoyment.

9. Why is reading so important?
The ability to read fluently and with meaning develops and enhances many skills including:
Vocabulary attention span
Grammar sense of well-being
Pronunciation etc, etc…..
Understanding and interpreting
Memory
Communication
Imagination
Knowledge of the world

10. Mrs George

11. The teaching of reading
There are two aspects of reading that we teach and which are inextricably linked;
The ability to decode print – (to read the word on the page)
The ability to understand and make meaning from the printed word.

12. Key principles and features
Generally it is this second aspect of reading that we focus on in greater depth as the children move up the school.
What is Guided Reading?
Key principles and features
Aim to encourage children to become enthusiastic, autonomous and thoughtful readers.
Groups of children of similar reading ability work together on the same text.

13. The teacher guides the children to focus on and apply key strategies while reading independently.
The teacher gives focused attention to support, monitor and assess individuals as they read.
The teacher asks questions, promotes discussion and interacts with the children to extend their thinking and develop their responses to the text.

14. Children contribute to discussion, talking through their responses to the text. They listen to each other (under the guidance of the teacher)
Children learn from each other and take increasing responsibility for their reading as they become more mature.
The teacher monitors and records children’s progress to inform future teaching, targets and assessment.

15. It is not a group reading session where children take turns to read aloud within the group.
Reading for purpose and pleasure is key!

16. Guided Reading at St John’s
What does it look like?
Use published guided reading scheme
Daily session (20 minutes)
From Reception to Yr 6
Groups work with the teacher once during the week.
Other groups engaged in independent, reading related activities. (preparation and follow-up tasks, independent reading, comprehension activities etc…

17. Mr Creedon

18. The assessment of reading
AF1 Use a range of strategies including accurate decoding of text, to read for meaning (until NC Level 3, then not assessed)
AF2 Understand, describe, select or retrieve information, events or ideas from texts and use quotation and reference to text
AF3 Deduce, infer or interpret information, events or ideas from texts
AF4 Identify and comment on the structure and organisation of texts, including grammatical and presentational features at text level
AF5 Explain and comment on writers' uses of language, including grammatical and literary features at word and sentence level
AF6 Identify and comment on writers' purposes and viewpoints and the overall effect of the text on the reader
AF7 Relate texts to their social, cultural and historical contexts and literary traditions

19. How do we assess reading at St John’s?
Individual assessment made during guided reading and phonics sessions.
Ongoing assessment during literacy lessons and other curriculum subjects.
Children have individual reading targets.
End of key stage assessments (Yr 2 and Yr 6).
Optional SATs tests in Yrs 3,4 and 5.
New phonics screening at the end of Yr1.

20. Year 1 phonics screening check:
A new, statutory assessment for all children in Yr1.
Will take place in June.
Designed to confirm whether individual children have learnt phonic decoding to an appropriate standard.
Comprises a list of 40 words that children read 1:1 with a teacher.
List is a combination of real and pseudo- words
Parents informed as to whether their child has met the required standard or not.

21. vap at
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22. Helping with reading at home
Choose a quiet time
Make it an enjoyable experience enjoyable
Maintain the flow
Be positive
Success is key – (books sent home should be consolidation texts i.e 95% accuracy)
Visit the library
Little and often is best
Talk about the books they’re reading.
Read to your child (you’re never too old to be read to!)

23. Handouts
Guidance for parents
Talking about reading – questions
Reading wheel – activities
Suggested books