1. Early Literacy and Early Maths Skills Meeting
Welcome!!!

2. Early Literacy skills
As you know, the ability to read and write well is a vital skill for all children, paving the way for an enjoyable and successful school experience.
Phonics (the teaching of early reading and writing skills) – 20 min per day and regular time to revisit.

3. Not all children will learn at the same rate!
Daily Phonic Sessions
These include fun sessions involving lots of speaking, listening and games where the emphasis is on the children’s active participation. They learn to use their phonic knowledge for reading and writing activities and in their independent play.
Not all children will learn at the same rate!

4. Tricky words
They are also taught to read and spell ‘tricky words’ – words with spellings which are unusual or words children have not been taught yet.

5. Learning how to ‘sound-talk’
Phase One
c-a-t = cat
Initially the separate sounds (phonemes) are spoken aloud and then merged back together to blend the whole word.
Blending is a vital skill for reading.
Refer to Oral Blending Video!!!

6. Matching sounds to letters
Phase Two
They will also be taught the phonemes (sounds) for a number of letters (graphemes), which sound (phoneme) is represented by which letter (grapheme) and that a sound (phoneme) can be represented by more than one letter, e.g. /ll/ as in b-e-ll.
tick = t –i-ck.
Now the children will be seeing letters and words, as well as hearing them.

7. Building words
They will be shown how to make whole words by pushing letters together to form simple words.
Saying the sounds
Your child will be taught how to pronounce the sounds (phonemes) correctly to make blending easier
Sounds should be sustained where possible (e.g. ss, ff, m).

8. Early reading and writing
Blending for reading
Segmenting for spelling

9. Handwriting Using their whole body Hand and finger play
To strengthen little fingers
Hand–eye co-ordination

11. Crocodile grasp
Pencil hold

12. Early Maths Skills Shape, Space and Measures Numbers
Maths is more than just learning how to count. Awareness of measuring and shapes also plays an important part in your child's development.

13. Counting 1:1 Correspondence
To help develop your child's counting skills, you could:
help your child count items around the home
sing counting songs and nursery rhymes like 'Ten Green Bottles'
have your child guess the next number as the oven timer counts down to zero
point out numbers in everyday life - on the front door, birthday cards or clocks
ask your child to collect a specified number of objects
play games like Snakes and Ladders that involve using a dice.
1:1 Correspondence

14. Careful Counter! 1. Point to each object as you count it
2. Place the objects into a line
3. Give each object one number name
4. Encourage your child to say how many objects there are altogether
5. Talk about numbers in context such as “there are five buttons on your coat, but only four on mine, you’ve got more than me”
6. Encourage children to represent amounts using their fingers or objects.

15. Measuring To help develop your child's measuring skills, you could:
practice measuring things in the home with a tape measure and write down their sizes
compare the lengths of two objects
compare objects to see which is heavier
fill and empty containers
weigh ingredients for cooking.

16. Learning about shapes
After learning about the names of shapes, your child's next step is to describe what they are like and what they can do.
Things to do at home;
compare the shapes of the street signs you see on the way to the shops
look at everyday objects and finding words to describe their shape
get them to find everyday objects which are squares, circles or triangles.

17. Thank you for listening.