1. Phonics and Reading Workshop
For Parents of Little Acorns
Monday 4th and Tuesday 5th July 2016

3. The Importance of reading to your child
Modelling
Model a love of books and a love of being a reader…books/newspaper in the house, cook books etc
Links between printed word and voice
Reading from left to right
Picture Books
Support work in school
Repetitive phrases
Discussions about characters, plot etc
Model sounds
Key words which don’t have specific sounds

4. Reading with your child
Picture books (without words)…talking about pictures increases your child’s vocabulary and story-telling (Level 0).
Levels 1 – 5 tend to just have key words or easily decodable words.
Aiming for Level 6 by the end of Year R.
Children need to point to words initially for 1:1 correspondence.
Every day (5 minutes)! Make it fun! Be caught reading! (In the car, at the breakfast table etc).

5. Online Games and Resources

6. s

7. a

8. t

9. p

10. i

11. n

12. m

13. d

14. g

15. o

16. c

17. k

18. ck

19. e

20. u

21. r

22. h

23. b

24. f

25. ff

26. l

27. ll

28. j

29. v

30. w

31. x

32. y

33. z

34. zz

35. qu

36. ch

37. sh

38. th

39. ng

40. ai

41. ee

42. igh

43. oa

44. oo

45. ar

46. or

47. ur

48. ow

49. oi

50. ear

51. air

52. ure

53. er

54. Key Words (on the website)
Read and Spell