1. Teaching English at Charlton Kings Infants’ School
Parent Workshops
Autumn 2017

2. Aims of the Session:
To understand the expectations by the end of YR
To understand how English is taught in our school
To understand how to support children’s learning at home
To experience English activities with your child

3. Communication and Language

4. Gross & Fine motor control:

5. Early Learning Goals Reading
Children read and understand simple sentences. They use phonic knowledge to decode regular words and read them aloud accurately. They also read some common irregular words. They demonstrate understanding when talking with others about what they have read.
Writing
Children use their phonic knowledge to write words in ways which match their spoken sounds. They also write some irregular common words. They write simple sentences which can be read by themselves and others. Some words are spelt correctly and others are phonetically plausible.

6. Jolly Phonics:
Jolly phonics is so successful because it uses the synthetic phonics method of teaching the letter sounds in a way that is fun and multi-sensory.
The different skills are taught simultaneously.
Learning the letter sounds - 42 sounds (26 letters), 3 sounds a week, story/action, objects for Sound Table, not taught in order e.g. ‘s, a, t’.
(Avoid ‘uh’ sound)
Learning letter formation – correct pencil grip, cursive handwriting
Reading - blending – c-a-t, d-o-g, ‘tricky’ word lists
Writing - Identifying sounds in words and writing them from memory

7. Reading: Book Corner books Rhyme of the Week
Shared reading as whole class
Guided comprehension
School library
Visit the local library
Individual reading – reading diaries
School reading books – the comprehension of the story is just as important as the decoding.
Reading books will come home when it is appropriate for each individual child.
Little and often is the key!

8. Writing: Develop gross & fine motor skills and correct pencil grip.
New cursive handwriting – patterns to begin
Phoneme frames
Variety of writing resources/books etc
Writing opportunities are part of children’s play
Mark making/emergent writing books

9. How can I help at home?:
Read regularly at home and record in the diary
Practise letter flashcards
Track the rhyme of the week and practise reciting it
Play rhyming/alliteration games
Encourage children to speak in full sentences
Encourage large drawing/writing activities which strengthen gross motor skills
Talk about the sound learnt each day – look for objects
Complete letter formation sheets (Yellow folder)

10. Glossary
Phoneme - A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound in speech.  When we teach reading we teach children which letters represent those sounds.  For example – the word ‘hat’ has 3 phonemes – ‘h’ ‘a’ and ‘t’
Grapheme - A grapheme is a letter or a number of letters that represent the sounds in our speech. So a grapheme will be the letter/ letters that represent a phoneme
Digraph - A digraph is a 2 letter grapheme e.g. ‘ch’ in  ‘chip’
Trigraph - A trigraph is a 3 letter grapheme e.g. ‘igh’ in ‘high
CVC – consonant-vowel-consonant

11. Any questions?