1. Active Literacy

2. Pyramid of Learning

3. Reading
Book Banding – books are colour coded, not organised by ‘level’
Parent prompt sheet – with suggestions to try when children have difficulty reading a word
Read story to a sibling, teddy , relative, record it or even Face Time!

4. Cross check Did the word you said - sound right? look right?
make sense?

5. Chunky Monkey
Look for chunks you know
Wed-nes-day
Pic-tures

6. Rhyming Robot
‘chair’ reminds me
of hair and fair

7. Cover the ending walking
Cover the –ed or –ing
Focus on the root
word walk.
Then add the
ending back.
walked

8. Magic ‘e’
Makes the vowel day
its name but it
stays silent.
mate

9. When 2 vowels go walking…
Chair
… the first one
does the talking.

10. Use the pictures
‘Oh that word must be dragon because I see one in the picture’.

11. Skip the word
Read the rest of the sentence, then come back and try again. There are often clues in the sentence which can help.

12. 3 sounds of -ed
t baked
d waved
id haunted

13. Swap the sound

14. Swap the sound

15. Phonics
A method of teaching spelling and reading bases on the sounds of letters – not their names s – ssss not es a – aaaa not ay First 6 sounds – a t s I p n

16. Common Words
Common words – often cannot be sounded out, need to use other strategies to learn them
Children will learn 3 new words a week
Children will very quickly build up a bank of ‘sight’ words to use in their reading and writing
Primary words a week
First 3 common words - a at the

17. 5 Finger Approach
Blend
Make/Break
Read
Say
Write

18. Handwriting
It is important to start writing letters in the correct place.
Children should be use a froggy legs pencil grip