1. The gateway to learning
Reading
The gateway to learning

2. When is reading taught? Daily morning sessions
15 minutes, increasing through the year
And everywhere else, home and school!

3. How do the children learn?
Highly structured sessions
Fast paced
New sound each day
Review of previously learned sounds
Blending sounds into words

4. What is the curriculum used?
“While we're teaching them this nightmare alphabetic code, we should give them simple books to read, but the richest books to hear. Phonics is just the quickest route to reading real books.”
Ruth Miskin, Read Write Inc.
What is the curriculum used?
Synthetic phonics: teaching reading by first teaching the letter sounds and then building up to blending these sounds together to achieve full pronunciation of whole words (decoding).
Practice of decoding the same word several times, puts the word into the store of words we recognise on sight.
Meaning of words discussed and understood.

5. Stages Set 1 – simple and common sounds eg. m, a, s, d, sh, ch, ng
Set 2 – sounds made with two or three letters eg. igh, oo, oy
Set 3 – complex sounds: one sound with many ways to write it eg. ai (rain), a-e (make), ay (tray)
Ditty books
Story books
Writing books

7. Decoding words
Understanding text +
= Reading

8. The tools we use
Home reading book – current stage indicated by colour strip
Changed in school, two books once a week
Handbook for Learning – the place to record what you read at home

9. How you can help… Value books at home Borrow and buy books they like
Stretch your repertoire
Enjoy reading to them
Find something you want to read yourself
Talk about the sounds they’re learning
Share their school books with them
Reading in the environment e.g. road signs, shop names.
Scribing their stories/role play and reading it back to them