1. Stone C of E Combined School Parents Phonics and Reading Workshop Welcome and Introductions
Tracy Stewart - English coordinator at Stone School, KS2 leader and teach Class 5.
Laura Hindmarsh -Read, Write, Inc. leader and KS1 Reading leader and teach Class 2.

2. Aims for the afternoon:
Share an understanding of reading development with you.
Introduce the way we teach phonics and reading in school.
Discuss how we organise our reading system and clarify home learning.
Share strategies to support you at home with your child’s reading development.
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Copyright Ruth Miskin Literacy

3. We aim for them to read widely and often and be a lifelong reader.
Teach a child to read
and keep that child reading
and we will change everything.
And I mean everything!
Jeanette Winterson
At Stone we want our children to learn to read as quickly as possible and then to keep on reading.
We aim for them to read widely and often and be a lifelong reader.
Research shows that children who learn to read quickly go on to succeed in school and in life.
This quote from Jeanette Wilson sums up what we do aim to do at Stone.
Read quote.
At Stone we want our children to learn to read as quickly as possible and then to keep on reading
We aim for them to read widely and often and be a lifelong reader.
Research shows that children who learn to read quickly go on to succeed in school and in life.

4. Who is Read Write Inc. Phonics for?
Read question. The phonics program we follow is Read Write Inc which enables children to learn to read

5. Read Write Inc. Phonics Reception and Y1 children
Older children who need to‘catch-up’
Children who are new to English
Our teaching and learning focuses on what children already know and what they need to learn next in order to make best possible progress - by stage not age.
Using Read Write Inc. Phonics will ensure all children who come to our school learn to read:
Eyfs– Y1
Older pupils who have struggled to learn to read and need to ‘catch up’
EAL pupils
Children with SEN and dyslexia also learn to read using this programme.

6. What is Read Write Inc. Phonics?
Read question.

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Read Write Inc. Phonics is a programme that uses systematic phonics to teach all children to read.
It lasts two years for most children - if they start to learn to read in the Reception class.
Click – We teach the sounds first – in a specific order.
Click – We then teach your children to break the words into their pure sounds and blend them together in order to read words
Click – The children read words in the matched Storybooks. Each Storybook is carefully matched to the sounds they can already read - setting them up for success.

8. What is systematic phonics?
Read question.

9. Phonics is the method of teaching reading through the identification of phoneme and graphemes. Phoneme All words are made up of sounds e.g. in ‘mat’ we have the sounds ‘m’, ‘a’, ‘t’. Graphemes A grapheme is a letter or a number of letters that represent the sound. We teach phonics so that your children will have the tools to read any word.
Phonics is the method of teaching reading through the identification of sounds and graphemes.
Click. All words are made up of sounds e.g. in ‘mat’ we have the sounds ‘m’, ‘a’, ‘t’.
Click A grapheme is a letter or a number of letters that represent the sound.
Please do use these names with the children as we do.
We teach phonics so that your children will have the tools to read any word.

10. The importance of using ‘pure sounds’
Here is the lovely Sylvie demonstrating how we pronounce our ‘pure sounds’.
Laura - Notes: careful not to add ‘uh’ sound as in ruh, huh or children add to their writing.

11. English alphabetic code
In English we have more than 150 ways to represent 44 sounds, using the 26 letters in the alphabet.
This means we have to group letters together to write some sounds. Show with a grapheme such as ‘igh’.
This makes our language one of the most complex in the world!
Watch English is a complex language!
As you can see, English is one of the most complex alphabetic codes in the world.
To illustrate this point we have a short video clip to share with you.
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12. How does Read Write Inc. use phonics to teach reading and help children to ‘crack’ the complex English code?
Read question.

13. Simple Speed Sounds
Phonics makes learning to read easy for children because we start by teaching them just one way of reading and writing every sound. Here they are on the Simple Speed Sounds chart.
We teach Set 1 sounds first - (sounds as far as a e i o u) and then Set 2 (the shaded sounds ay - oy).
Use MTYT to teach each of the pure sounds to parents.

14. Blending using Fred Talkp
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Once the children know the pure sounds, we teach them to blend sounds to read words. We also teach children to spell the words they learn to read.
We use Fred Talk to help children read and spell words. MTYT

15. Complex Speed Sounds chart
Once they can Fred Talk and blend sounds into words from the simple chart, we teach them Set 3 sounds on the complex chart – the other ways of reading and writing each sound so that they can soon read anything.

16. Storybooks
Alongside learning each set of sounds, they read Storybooks that only contain the sounds and words they can read. This sets them up to succeed in their reading.
We discuss the ideas in these Storybooks. We spend about 5 days on these books and children learn to read them with expression and fluency working towards the expectation that children can read 90 words per minute by the end of year 2. This in turn helps the children with their comprehension. It incorporates many areas of reading including decoding and comprehension. By the end of the week on these books children should know the words by sight and should not need to segment and blend.
We also teach children to read common exception words – words like ‘said’ and ‘they’.
Words which we cannot fred talk – we say ‘you never Fred a red’

17. How does Read Write Inc. teach spelling?
Read question.

18. Fred Fingers
We use Fred Fingers to help children sound out words to spell easily.
It means they do not have to memorise lists of spelling words.
It is a tool so they will be able to spell most words.
Demonstrate how to use Fred Fingers.

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Phonics check
June
Year 1
Real words and nonsense words
Children encouraged to use what they have learnt in RWI.
Phonics check takes place in June, it is for all year 1 children, don’t worry if they don’t pass as they can take again at the end of Year 2. It also informs teachers of where children need support.
They are encouraged to find special friends, freg talk and blend.
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Copyright Ruth Miskin Literacy

20. What should my child read at home?
Read question.

21. ‘I can’ book - Read Write Inc. Storybook
We aim for your child to bring home a paper version of the Storybook that they have been working on that week.
This book should be a ‘celebration’ of what they can read and a chance for them to ‘show off’ their great reading skills.

22. Let your child lead this session as they could act it/read with expression/get you to read it and get you to ‘jump in’.
They should know all of the sounds used in the Storybook as they will bring home the book that they have already read three times in the classroom.
This means they will be able to read the text with fluency and confidence – like a storyteller. They will enjoy reading to you.
This does not mean the text is too easy for them – it means they are reading at the correct level.

23. ‘We can’ book - Book band book/s that link to their Read, Write, Inc
‘We can’ book - Book band book/s that link to their Read, Write, Inc. level
In addition to their RWI book your child will also be bringing home a book band book that is linked to their RWI level.
This will book will not have been read at school yet and will be new to your child.
We aim to change book band books on a Monday and Thursday.
Please use the reading record to let us know how your child is getting on.

24. Library book: to share with an adult at home
Library book: to share with an adult at home. This could be read by the adult and/or child.
They will also bring home a library book to share and enjoy with you at home. They will have chosen this independently, with the teacher and teaching assistants supporting their choices, in their weekly library session.

25. How can you help at home?
Read question.

26. Storytime Read to your children as well as listening to them read.
Let them ‘catch’ you reading!
Ask lots of questions and share opinions
Discuss vocabulary choices and meaning.
You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.
Dr Seuss
One of the most important things you can do as a parent at home is read higher level texts to your child.
This helps develop an enjoyment for stories and the motivation for learning to read themselves.
Ask questions and share opinions about what you read to engage them in discussion, get them thinking about what they read and develop vocabulary.
Click and read.

27. Any other questions