1. Early Years Workshop
Tuesday 21st November

2. Outcomes of the session…
Gain an understanding of how Reading and maths is taught in the Early Years
Gain strategies to support my child at home with reading and maths
Gain understanding of the EYFS curriculum

3. Reading in EYFS
Early Learning Goal (where my child needs to be by the end of Reception class)
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.

4. Phonics
Using phonics sounds is a way of decoding words by breaking them into sounds and blending them together

5. Phonics
As a school we send home the phonic sounds the children have learnt that week. This needs to be practiced at school and at home as much as possible.
Ask your child to help you spot letters in street signs or books,
While you’re shopping ask your child to pick up an a-p-p-le (sound out the word for them to blend)

6. Developing comprehension
Retrieval questions;
Finding information in the text
or picture
Interpret questions;
Explain how the character might be feeling (using inference skills)
Using background knowledge to answer
What is going to happen next? (prediction skills)

7. Retrieval:
How many leaves can you see?
What is the animal?
How many stars can you see?
What is the title of the book?
Interpret:
What time of day is it?
Why are the leaves falling off the tree?
What do you think this book is going to be about? Why?

8. Developing fluency What is fluency? How to develop fluency?
Being able to read accurately, with pace, intonation (pitch) and expression.
How to develop fluency?
Read aloud to your child to provide an example of how fluent reading sounds.
Give your child books with predictable vocabulary and repetition.
Use books with audio books; have the child follow along in the print copy.
Readingrockets.org

9. Top tips Make the time Take turns to read Make reading relevant
Talk about the book
Pay attention to the language
Enjoy reading time
Oxfordowl.co.uk

10. Useful links

11. Maths in EYFS Early learning goal: numbers
Children count reliably with numbers from one to 20, place them in order and say which number is one more or one less than a given number. Using quantities and objects, they add and subtract two single-digit numbers and count on or back to find the answer. They solve problems, including doubling, halving and sharing.
Early learning goal: shape, space and measures
Children use everyday language to talk about size, weight, capacity, position, distance, time and money to compare quantities and objects and to solve problems. They recognise, create and describe patterns. They explore characteristics of everyday objects and shapes and use mathematical language to describe them

12. Shape, space, measures Measures; cooking, discuss size of cakes etc.
Capacity; play with water and fill up bottles, full, half full etc.
Weight; sort household objects into heavy and light
Patterns; Use colours or objects to create patterns

13. Numbers
Counting real life object around the house (toys, fruit, teddies)
Numbers in order; build a number washing line
Use objects to begin simple addition and subtraction
Share the fruit in the bowl
Who has more apples, who has less oranges

14. Top tips Use real resources Play counting games Play hunting games
Use objects around the house
Have fun
Make it simple

15. Where to find the curriculum statements… OR
Search on google for ‘Early Years Outcomes’