1. KS1 and KS2 Reading Workshop - 20th June 2017
WHAT WORKS...
Phonics matters massively!
Reading for pleasure is central to success
Quality, rich texts
Parental involvement
A focus on vocabulary
Reading for pleasure = fluency too

2. THE 5 CORNERSTONES OF READING...
Phonemic awareness - ability to hear sounds in words
Phonics - segmentation (letters and sounds)
Fluency - reading easily, accurately with expression
Vocabulary
Comprehension
1, no point if can’t hear the sound
3. Practising again and again and again with the same books / series of books
4. If don’t know what word means then can’t do number 5 (comprehension)

3. Phonics - decoding liberates fluency...
Sandfield pupils start on day 1 - daily - automaticity - fun - applied
With comprehension from the start
Fun! Not dull. And needs to be applied - show phonics flash cards and recommend them / teachyourmonstertoread.com
Starts in EYFS and progresses all the way through school

4. Fluency Decoding Fluency Comprehension
Repeated re-reading of a text
Increasing speed
Increasing accuracy
Increasing expression
Rehearsing a reading or performance
Constant practice at an easy level,
i.e. the same book or a book series

5. Reading for pleasure is central to success...
See Talk4Writing Handout 3
Go over handout 3

6. Increase independent reading
Parental involvement…
Increase independent reading
Child who reads 20 minutes per day reads almost 2 million words per year.
Establish daily reading sessions + magpie books (10 minutes)
Reward and emphasise reading at home - it is homework of the best kind! (10 minutes)
Let children choose their own books for reading for pleasure

7. A focus on vocabulary… Vocabulary liberates comprehension:
“It is rare for students to struggle with reading comprehension if their decoding and vocabulary are well developed.”
Spencer, M, Quinn, JM and Wagner, RK 2014

8. Which words need teaching and how?
Grey Malkin pressed his forepaws against the flight deck window and peered out. Below, ramshackle ruins sprawled as far as the eye could see and white puffs of acrid smoke drifted across the city.
‘Cogheart’ Peter Bunzi
Show how to teach ‘ramshackle’

9. Explode the word: what does each word mean. Pick a word and explain it
Explode the word: what does each word mean? Pick a word and explain it. Can you work it out?
ferned
2) luminous
3) parapets
4) rink
5) level
6) knuckles

10. ? syllables
? phonemes
Word type:
having
Spelling rule:
Root word:

11. having CAN BE DIFFERENTIATED 2 syllables Word type: 5 phonemes verb
Spelling rule:
If the verb ends in ‘e’ take off the ‘e’ and add ‘ing’
Root word:
have

12. Related words:
Use it:
ear
Connections:
Rhymes:

13. ear CAN BE DIFFERENTIATED Use it: The ogre had two huge ears.
Related words: hear, heard, earring, ear, hole, earful
Use it: The ogre had two huge ears.
ear
Connections: BFG, Noddy’s Friend, The War of Jenkins Ear
Rhymes: fear, spear, tear, weir, career, beer, peer

15. Speed vocabulary sessions
- speed read the new words
- cover the words and speed spell (dictation)
- explain the meaning and invent a sentence
- sentence combination - practise combining two or more sentences using the vocabulary (improves comprehension)

16. Comprehension from the start
It’s

17. Comprehension from the start
See handouts for EYFS, Year 1, 2 RICS
See handouts for KS2 RICS

18. rainbow . ___ . . ______ looked . ___ . ___
. ___ . . ______
looked
. ___ . ___

19. What colour is a sunflower seed?

20. Where do the seeds grow?
What can you see if you open a sunflower seed?

21. aCTIVITIES WE USE TO AID COMPREHENSION SKILLS
SEE ‘A BANK OF ACTIVITIES’ HANDOUT

23. Parents have a go at ‘ay’ sound activity

24. Parents have a go with ‘ramshackle’

25. Parental involvement...
See handout 4 as something to go away and tick or x as to what they would find useful as a workshop in the future.

26. THANKS!
Any questions?