1. EYFS Reading and Writing Workshop 28th September
Sound buttons
EYFS Reading and Writing Workshop 28th September
Robot talk
key words

2. Agenda -Timetable explained -Reading development
-How we teach reading in school
-How you can help at home
-Writing development
-How we teach writing in school

3. A day in EYFS… 8:40-8:50 Yoga/ Name card/Activities 8:50-8:55 Register
8:55- 9:20 Phonics
9:20-10:45 learning through play/group activities/challenges/ key worker next steps/outdoor play
10:45-11:15 Mathematics
11:15-11:30 toilet time
11:30-12:30 Dinner time
12:30-12:50 key worker input
12:50- 2:35 learning through play/group activities/challenges/ key worker next steps/outdoor play
2:45 Daily Mile
3:00 Home prep/Story
3:15 Hometime

4. EYFS Curriculum Birth-11m 8-20m 16-26m 22-36m
30-50m(expectation to enter early stages in N)
40-60m (expectation to enter early stages in Rec)
Early Learning Goal (ELG) (end of year expectation-demonstrates a readiness for Year 1)
Exceeding statement (links to the New KS1 Curriculum)

5. Reading Development
Listening to and distinguishing between environmental sounds
Awareness of Rhyme
Awareness of Alliteration
Blending words orally
Knowing letter have sounds
Saying sounds and blending together c-a-t.
Language comprehension- knowing what you have read!

6. How do we teach this in school?
Differentiated phonics groups daily.
One group focused on environmental sounds and then moving onto rhyme
Next group is orally blending sounds
Third group starting letters and sounds continuing with lots of blending and segmenting practise.

7. Letters and Sounds
Phonics program to teach children how to read and write
Phase 1- environmental sounds, awareness of rhyme, alliteration, oral blending and segmenting
Phase 2 sounds taught in a ‘set’ e.g. ‘s, a, t, p’
We teach sounds not names at the beginning
Key sight words to learn and words that do not ‘sound out’ are ‘tricky words’ e.g. ‘the, to, no, go, I, into’

8. What does the curriculum say?
Bit of maths! Work out your child’s age in months…

9. Nursery aged children
Spending time sharing books; discussing the characters, setting and events
Singing nursery rhymes changing the ending Humpty Dumpty sat on a ball… (ask would that work?)
Playing I spy
Making up alliterative or rhyming names e.g Cool Cat, Zebra Webra

10. Reading List Ideas! The Very Hungry Caterpillar
The Gruffalo (or any Julia Donaldson)
Traditional Tales (Three Little Pigs, Goldilocks, Jack and the Beanstalk)
Elmer
The Rainbow Fish
Dear Zoo
Each Peach Pear Plum
The Jolly Postman
The Tiger Who Came For Tea

11. Tricky words- they don't 'sound out'
Reception Focus-
How can I help with reading?
Asking where the words are? Where are the pictures? When I read where do I start?
Learning tricky words from memory using bookmarks sent home in reading books.
Ask children to press their ‘sound buttons’ to read a word e.g ‘m-a-t’
Are there any tricky words?
Asking children questions
about the book
Sound buttons
Tricky words- they don't 'sound out'

12. School reading books and books
Language recognition/decoding - key words, sounding out words
Reading comprehension - understanding what you have read
School reading books and books
from home

13. Also…
After reading the story with the children can you please ask them questions such as…
Who are the characters are in the story?
What happens at the beginning and the end?
What was your favourite in the story?
Where is the setting?
Please don’t worry about levels of reading books.
Quality reading is better than racing through the levels.

14. How can I help my child with Letters and Sounds at home?
1. Sound buttons for READING- if your child is struggling to read ask to press ‘sound buttons’ cat
2. Tricky words- learning by sight given out as bookmarks to collect
Tricky words - don't 'sound out'

16. Actions to the sounds
'Jolly Phonics Phase 2&3'

17. Reading – End of EYFS Expectation
Early Learning Goal
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.

18. How to change reading books
Books will be changed by an adult during you child’s weekly 1:1 read.
Book bag should be brought everyday with Home-School diary and reading book.
Fridays

19. Writing Development Steps of progression in writing
Emergent writing (scribbles)
Lines and Circles
Beginning to use real letters
(can be from name)
Using sounds in writing
Writing words
and sentences

20. ELG Example

21. Writiing – End of EYFS Expectation
Early Learning Goal
Children use their phonic knowledge to write words in ways which match their spoken sounds. They also write some irregular common words. They write simple sentences which can be read by themselves and others. Some words are spelt correctly and others are phonetically plausible.

22. Writing opportunities…
Shopping lists
Writing name (letters formed correctly)
Labels – family on a picture, label a den they’ve made e.g ‘Bear Cave’
Write rules for a role play area
Captions to pictures ‘dog on a mat’
Stories
N.B when writing your child’s name and other words please do not use capital letters (unless it is the first letter of their name!)

23. How can I help my child with their writing?
Valuing any attempt at writing. Asking ‘Will you read it to me?’
Encourage the children to have a try using their real letters - not writing it correctly for them and children copying
Asking to use ‘robot talk’
Tricky words from memory
Writing Bag - CHILD’S WRITING NOT YOURS PLEASE!

24. Handwriting We teach pre- cursive print for example
We have ‘lazy letters’ that need waking up so we start on the line and ‘drag them out of bed’
Letter patter… e.g a - ‘drag it out of bed, around the apple, down the leaf’

25. Pencil grip-Funky Fingers!

26. Squiggle While You Wiggle!
Physical Development
Gross to fine
Fabric

27. Dough disco
Insert video

28. Fine Motor
Nuts and bolts
Threading

29. How can I help my child with handwriting?
IMPROVING FINE MOTOR SKILLS BY…
Gluing PVA - glue stick or lollipop stick
threading
play dough - manipulating
jigsaw puzzles
cutting
buttoning/zipping

30. Class Blogs
Please have a look at our school website at our school blogs.
Updated all the time. Please comment as often as you like. We show the children in school and they love it! 

31. Library books – not on trolley
Outdoor PE kit labelled

32. Any questions?