1. Reading and Phonics in the Early Years 2nd October 2018
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2. Reading activity Can you read this?
I cnduo't bvleiee taht I culod aulaclty uesdtannrd waht I was rdnaieg. Unisg the icndeblire pweor of the hmuan mnid, aocdcrnig to rseecrah at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mttaer in waht oderr the lterets in a wrod are, the olny irpoamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rhgit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whoutit a pboerlm. Tihs is bucseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey ltteer by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Aaznmig, huh?
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3. What Is Good Reading?
Basic reading requires the reader to share the words that the author has chosen to use in the text.
Good reading is understanding what the author and illustrator are trying to convey.
Good reading is improved when the reader brings experiences to the text and gains understanding from the text.
Excellent reading requires the reader to use a wide combination of skills including phonics, word recognition, grammatical understanding and comprehension.
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4. Early Learning Goal: Reading
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.
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5. How is reading taught in school?
Teaching reading through phonics
Shared reading (Big books/SMARTboard)
Guided reading with peers
Genres: Fiction, non-fiction, poetry, plays
Individual reading books
Library books
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6. First Steps
Building a good foundation for reading, enjoying stories, handling books, understanding that print holds meaning.
Working out the words, ‘What does it say?’
Phonics
Word recognition
Grammatical awareness
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7. Phonics
Phonics is simply the study of the sounds that individual letters and groups of letters make.
In school, we follow the Letters and Sounds programme.
Letters and Sounds is a phonics resource which consists of six phases.
We also use Jolly Phonics to make learning fun!
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8. cat c a t Segmenting Breaking down words for spelling.
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9. Building words from phonemes to read.
Blending
Building words from phonemes to read.
c a t
cat
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10. Tricky Words
Many of the tricky words that your child will encounter are also known as ‘High Frequency words’; they will be practised on a regular basis in school. These might also be a ‘word of the week’ in class e.g. was, my.
Some High Frequency words are words that cannot be sounded out phonetically and need to be learnt by sight.
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11. Early Learning Reading Strategies
Use the pictures to help make informed guesses.
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12. Early Learning Reading Strategies
Use your knowledge of phonics and tricky words.
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13. Early Learning Reading Strategies
Predict what might happen next.
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14. Early Learning Reading
Strategies
Use the pattern of
the text.
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15. Reading in school
In Reception, every child will read at least twice a week with the class teacher or another adult in school. A record of their progress will be kept and targets discussed with your child. Children will bring home at least 3 school books each week.
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16. ‘Children are made readers on the laps of their parents’
Emilie Buchwald
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17. Reading with your child
Reading with your child should be done on a daily basis and recorded in their reading diary.
Reading with your child should involve a mixture of discussion and decoding the print.
Reading should be a pleasant time for the parent and child.
The importance of bedtime stories.
We ask you to read at least 3 times a week and to record this in your child’s diary.
If there are 3 entries then your child will receive a raffle ticket and will be entered into our weekly reading raffle.
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18. Model Reading
Let your child see you reading; magazines, letters, instructions, charts, signs, labels in the shops … and remember your child will like to hear you read to them as much as they like reading to you! If your child is a reluctant reader this can be even more important. Don’t force them to read but read to them or make it a game or challenge, take turns. Read a comic or anything else they choose as long as they are reading and enjoying it. Read as often as you can!
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19. Thank you for coming
Happy reading!
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