1. Hawes Down Infant School Excellence and Enjoyment
Early Reading
Home Reading
Systematic Phonics
Handwriting Script

2. The Rose Review 2006
…it is an obvious truth that the goal of reading is comprehension and that skilled reading involves understanding as well as decoding text. In short, learning to read progresses to reading, effortlessly, to learn…..

3. Skilled reading requires two processes:
that the reader recognises and understands the words on the page (that is, word recognition processes or decoding)
the development of language comprehension (that is, written texts as well as spoken language are understood and interpreted).

4. Other reading strategies
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5. Home shared reading at Hawes Down
Children change their books on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays (or as needed)
The teacher assesses the children's reading progression regularly and changes your child’s reading band as needed

6. Phonics
We follow the Letters and Sounds scheme of work and use the Jolly Phonics songs to consolidate the learning.
Everyday your children will learn new sounds so that they can start word building from day one.
We will learn several sounds (phonemes) each week until we have learnt all of them.
We also teach friendly letters (digraphs) - 2 letters that make 1 sound when put together – ch.
We teach these sounds using pictures, games, objects and songs.
The aim: To get your children to use these sounds to sound out and blend simple words when reading and writing.

7. Phonics Homework
On Friday’s you will receive your child’s homework book.
Each week we will be learning several new sounds.
We will send home these sounds in a homework book for you to practise with your child.
Each page contains a picture demonstrating the action of the sound and examples of how to write the sound using cursive handwriting.
You may wish to stick in or draw pictures that start with this sound to support your child’s learning.

8. Please be aware that each sound (phoneme) is said in a particular way.
Enunciation
Please be aware that each sound (phoneme) is said in a particular way.
C - A - T not CER- AH – TER
The correct enunciation of these sounds will help your child to blend them and hear the word when reading.

9. Handwriting Script
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12. Learn to Read There are 540,000 words in the English language.
On average, a child needs to see a word 25 times before s/he recognises the word
There is no one method, medium, approach, device or philosophy that holds the key to learning to read.
Children who read well do better in all aspects of education and beyond.

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