1. Reception Parents Welcome

2. Why does Homework in Reception have a reading focus?
Research Studies into Early Reading have found a direct correlation between school success and reading at home.
Key Findings
The frequency of reading to young children has a direct causal effect on their schooling outcomes regardless of their family background and home environment.
Reading to children at age 4-5 every day has a significant positive effect on their reading skills and cognitive skills (i.e. language and literacy, numeracy and cognition) later in life.
Reading to children 3-5 days per week (compared to 2 or less) can add six months to their reading age.
Reading to them 6-7 days per week can add almost 12 months to their reading age.

3. How do you feel?
我感觉好多了。
我找到了。
我讨厌你！
我希望如此。
我早知道了。
我爱你。
我注意到了。
我明白了。

4. 我感觉好多了。
I feel much better.
我找到了。
I found it.
我讨厌你！
I hate you!
我希望如此。
I hope so.
我早知道了。
I knew it.
我爱你。
I love you.
我注意到了。
I noticed that.
我明白了。
I see.

5. Wordless Books Children can ‘tell’ the story using
These books offer young children a positive introduction to reading scheme books before they have learnt the first set of sounds.
Children can ‘tell’ the story using
the pictures and they get the
message that reading
is something they can do!

6. Phonics vocabulary Phoneme - the smallest unit of sound in a word
Grapheme – the letter that represents the phoneme
Blending - putting individual sounds together so that we can read a word
Segmenting - breaking up words into their individual sounds so that we can spell a word
Digraph- 2 letters that make one sound
Trigraph- 3 letters that make one sound

7. Every word is made up of sounds.
There are 44 sounds (phonemes) to make all of the words in the English Language.
There are only 26 letters (graphemes) in our alphabet, so some sounds need to work together (special friends).

8. The complex English alphabetic code
This chart shows the most usual graphemes for the 44 sounds
1/15/2019

9. How many sounds?
cat ship light phonics

10. But... sounds can be written in different ways!
sat dress horse peace circle

11. f l m n r s v z sh th ng nk b c d g h j p qu t w x y ch k a e i o u ay
Consonants: stretchy f l m n r s v z sh th ng nk
Consonants: bouncy b c d g h j p qu t w x y ch k
Vowels: bouncy
Vowels: stretchy a e i o u ay ee
igh ow oo ar or
air ir ou oy
Set 1 sounds
Set 2 sounds

12. Teaching Blending
m a p = map

13. Teaching Segmenting
dog = d o g

14. Snapshot of a lesson Revisit learnt sounds
Learn a new sound- read- write
Use new and familiar sounds to read (blend) and write (segment) words (then sentences)

15. Red Words
Some words are not phonetically decodable, so we must learn them as sight words. Our homework in the Spring Term will focus on Reading Red Words and we will send them home in sets.

16. Reading As well as teaching your child to
read and write every day within RWI lessons, we guide them to use these skills in their independent learning.
We also aim to share five stories/rhymes daily. Children are encouraged to listen, join in with familiar parts and respond thoughtfully to a range of literature.

17. How can you help?
Practise new letter sounds and formations that come home as homework each Monday. Use the sound books for reference.
Share stories and information books at home as often as possible. Read their scheme book that comes home on Thursdays until very familiar. (Book bags in every day).
Let your children see you as a reader.