1. Welcome to Reception!

2. Rewards!

3. Learning Heroes

4. Phonics Focus - Rhyming - Alliteration - Blending and segmenting
- Introducing and writing letters
S a t p i n
Reading words
Reading and writing captions Reading sentences and questions

5. Blending and Segmenting
map m_a_p
cat c_ a_ t
hat h_a_t
pan p_a_n

6. Introducing letters… ‘I spy’
Talking about names, places and objects beginning with…
Cutting and sticking pictures beginning with the letter
Tracing letters in the sand, water writing, walking the letter, tracing letters on our buddy’s backs

7. Blending and segmenting our high frequency words…
Introducing high frequency words…
Give them context
Encourage your child to spot them in their reading books
Include them in your blending and segmenting games

8. Phonics

9. Reading Encourage your child to love to read… Share books Model
Provide a variety of different reading genres
Some suggested authors…
Eric Carle
Julia Donaldson
Lauren Child
Eileen Browne
Jez Alborough

10. Discuss the features… Front cover Back cover Author Illustrator
Title page
Title
Blurb

11. School reading books… Front cover “ Have you ever built a snowman?”
Describe story setting, events and principle characters
Predict ending
Discuss alternative endings
Compare plots and the feelings of characters with their own experiences
Discuss the characters
Story structure ‘Beginning’ ‘middle’ and ‘end’

12. Applying phonics through reading…
Blending and segmenting…
He put in milk
He put in jam
We, will, take, those, said, there, goes, they, put, the, and, got, in, don’t, could
Fluency!

13. A few questions from last year…
How often/ much should my child be reading?
What questions should I be asking?
My child has memorised the text, is that okay?
Sometimes it’s a bit of a challenge to get him/ her to read, what can I do?