1. Phonics Parent Meeting
Welcome

2. Read, Write, Inc.
‘Read, Write Inc.’ is a literacy programme by Ruth Miskin. The whole programme covers phonics, reading, writing and spelling and can be used across EY, KS1 and KS2. We use it to teach the phonics in FS2. and will be introducing it to the F1 children this year when they are ready.

3. Why Phonics?
A complete literacy programme - systematic and structured.
Meets the demands of the new national curriculum, giving your children the best chance of success in the national tests.
One-to-one tutoring - no child is left behind.
Storybooks align with the sounds learnt in class and therefore the children are consolidating the phonics they have learnt and applying these skills in context.
Read Write Inc. Phonics is systematic and structured –
every teacher has the skills to teach any child to read.
The programme meets the demands of the new national curriculum –
your children have the best chance of success in the national tests.
Assessment is rigorous and effective – one-to-one tutoring ensures that no child is left behind.
Your children are thoroughly supported – the resources match your child’s learning in class and they can share them with you at home.

4. A bit of technical vocabulary…
Phoneme – spoken sounds – there are about 44 in the English language
Grapheme – how we write each of the spoken sounds e.g the spoken sounds ‘f’ is written using the graphemes f, ff, ph.
Red words – words that cannot be sounded out e.g. I, said, they
Green words – words that can be sounded out using our phonics
Fred talk – (Fred is the frog) he can only talk in sounds e.g. sh-o-p
Watch our sound pronunciation guide.
This video is available on the RMT website and Facebook page

5. Explain again the sound boxes and say this chart show the many different graphemes for the same sounds! No other language has as many to learn! Pink graphemes are Set 3 – explain they only learn these once they know all of Set 1 & 2 effortlessly – systematic and structured!
Demonstrate how I would teach a set 1 sound use s
Draw picture and show card.

6. How do phonics help us read?
Say “hello” to Fred. Fred can only talk in sounds... He says “c_a_t.” Not cat. We call this Fred Talk. Watch Ruth Miskin explains Fred Talk.
Hold up Fred! Say you too can have a Fred at home – use one like this or any stuffed toy. Watch the video for a demonstration of how to Fred talk.
In lesson we build up words to help children learn to blend in word time. Show how
We look at green words.
Later on the children will look at red words.
Show
Mention writing learn write sound using writing phrase. Demonstrate with s

7. ‘Read, Write Inc.’ Storybooks
Talk about how will change books weekly, read in small groups
Begin with red books when they are blending . Books will become progressively more challenging.
Show real red book.

8. How to help your child at home…

9. You can read stories with your child. Relentlessly.
Read favourite stories over and over again Read some stories at a higher level than they can read themselves. Listen to them reading their take home Phonics storybooks. Watch our storytime at home video.
View the Ruth Miskin Training suggested reading lists for great books to read with your children.

10. And... Asking lots of questions! Use these prompts to help you:
What is that character thinking?
What do you think
happens next?
What is happening?
What do you
think that character is
feeling now?
What is the character saying?

11. And...
By talking to your child as much as possible and ‘feeding’ them new and different words:
“Let’s eat our lunch now.”
“Let’s munch our lunch now.”
“Let’s scoff our lunch now.”
“Let’s devour our lunch now!”

12. You can practise pronouncing sounds.
Remember no ‘fuh’ and ‘luh’!
Show card with first 8 sounds on . Receive when they have covered these in RWI.
Children work in groups according to the letters they know on a daily basis. They will be taught by different adults within school. New sound mats will be given as they are introduced to the next group of sounds. Mats colour coded to match current reading book.
Show mats .

13. You can have fun with Fred Talk.
“What a tidy r-oo-m!” “Where’s your c-oa-t?” “Time for b-e-d!”
Give a couple of examples e.g. Where is your c_oa_t? Time for b_e_d! Make sure your child can tell you what the word is.
Use only single syllable words (no Fred Talking multi-syllabic words) and only the last word in a sentence or it gets very silly! E.g. P_u_t o_n y_our b_l_ue c_oa_t (you’ll never get out!).

14. You can watch video tutorials.
For how to do all these things and more
If you have time then you could watch the one to one parent tutorial ‘How to teach a Set 1 Sound’

15. Please remember:
When reading with your child at home, it is meant to be easy! They are consolidating what they have learnt at school, not learning anything new. If they find it too difficult they will not enjoy reading at home. Reading is a pleasurable activity.

16. You can order the resources online.

17. Thank you for coming. All this information will be available on the school website. If you have any questions please do come and ask me.