1. How to help your child at home
Thursday 23rd November 2017

2. Today is about how to help your child at home with reading, writing and maths.

3. Reading Reading stamina Decoding Comprehension Prediction Summarising
Inference and deduction

4. Working at the expected standard
Read accurately most words of two or more syllables
Read most words containing common suffixes
Read most common exception words
Read with accuracy and fluency
Read with understanding
Answer questions and make some inferences

5. Questions you could ask your child
Retrieval - what happened at the beginning?
Inference - what words tell us he was unhappy?
Organisation - why is this word in bold print?
Language - why did the author choose a particular word or phrase?
View point - was this text trying to persuade you to do something ?
Context - give two examples that show this is a traditional tale

6. Writing Stories with familiar settings Traditional tales
Significant author
Extended stories
Instructions, explanations and information texts
Reports
Poetry

7. Working at the expected standard
To be a good writer children need:
writing stamina
to punctuate sentences with capital letters and full stops, with some use of question marks and exclamation marks
to structure sentences that are grammatically correct
to spell many common exception words
such as: said, they, where, were, are, there,
their and they’re - etc
to begin to use joined up writing

8. How can you help your child
Talk to your child about what they are learning at school or any after school clubs.
Give them opportunities to practise writing.
We should all aim to be grammatically
correct in speech and in writing!

9. Maths Maths is everywhere! Number Shape and space Measures
Data handling
Problem solving and reasoning

10. Working at the expected standard
partitioning, adding and subtracting 2 digit numbers
recognising inverse relationships
recalling and using multiplication and division facts for 2, 5 and 10 times tables
simple fractions
use money accurately
read simple scales
tell the time to the nearest 15 minutes
describe the properties of 2D and 3D shapes

11. How can you help your child?
Look for maths in the environment
Games - dice, cards, dominoes, computer games
Building models and measuring
Cooking - using weights and scales and reading the dials
Handling money
Telling the time - analogue/digital
Playing with containers and comparing their size

12. Thank you for coming to our presentation.
Mrs McGuire
Mrs Pearce