1. Read Write Inc. Phonics Parents’ Meeting

2. and keep that child reading [and talking]
Teach a child to read
and keep that child reading [and talking]
and we will change everything.
And I mean everything.
Jeanette Winterson

3. Who is Read Write Inc. Phonics for?

4. Older children who need to‘catch-up’ Children new to English
Read Write Inc. Phonics
Nursery – Y1 (KS1)
Older children who need to‘catch-up’
Children new to English

5. What is Read Write Inc. Phonics?

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7. What is systematic phonics?

8. Phonics
Sounds
Graphemes

9. Pure Sounds

10. English alphabetic code
44 sounds
Over 150+ graphemes
One of the most complex alphabetic codes in the world.

11. Speed Sounds chart

12. How does Read Write Inc. use phonics to teach reading?

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).

14. Blending using Fred Talkp
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15. Fred Talk
Blending

16. Complex Speed Sounds chart

17. Storybooks

18. How does Read Write Inc. teach spelling?

19. Fred Fingers

20. What should my child read at home?

21. Read Write Inc. Storybooks

22. How can I help at home?

23. Ask lots of questions and share opinions
Storytime
Read to your children
Ask lots of questions and share opinions
You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.
Dr Seuss

24. Talking
Talk to your child as much as possible and ‘feed’ them new and ambitious vocabulary.
“Let’s eat our lunch now.”
“Let’s munch our lunch now.”
“Let’s scoff our lunch now.”
“Let’s devour our lunch now!”
You’re looking ... not just... but...

25. Vocabulary Enrich conversations through description:
“Look at that rain. It looks like little diamonds sparkling on the window pane!”
Have fun with words and language.
“I’m as hot as a spud in a cooking pot!”
Praise your child for using new words or interesting phrases

26. Support how your child is learning to read and spell in school.
Read Write Inc. lessons
Support how your child is learning to read and spell in school.
Pure sounds
Fred Talk
Fred Fingers

27. Read Write Inc. lessons
Support how your child is learning to write a school by using the handwriting phrases. These were sent home with your child’s homework book

28. Online resources available
Ruth Miskin Parents’ Page: Ruth Miskin Facebook: Free e-books for home reading:

29. Links on our school website for parents
Our website is being updated weekly and after tonight’s meeting the powerpoint and links to useful video clips will be uploaded over the next few days.

30. Organisation - Reception
During the Autumn term the children are being taught in class groups in Reception – they are learning a sound a day. They learn to say, read and write the sound. Within a small focus group in the classroom with the teacher/TA, each day the children are learning skills to support them with their reading. Before Christmas all children will be assessed and then from the Spring term they will split into smaller groups tailored to their needs where focused teaching using the storybooks alongside the phonics will enable them to read with increasing accuracy and fluency. When the children can read fluently they are much better equipped to understand the text.

31. Year 1 and Year 2
Children continue learning phonics in the same way as they move into Year 1. They are assessed a minimum of half termly and grouped based on their phonic knowledge and supported to continue to develop their phonic skills in readiness for taking the phonics screening check in June. Any children who require additional support in Year 1 will have a period of 1:1 phonics tuition. Most children will have completed the RWI phonics programme by the end of Year 1. Children who would still benefit from the programme in Year 2 can continue this in the early part of Year 2.

32. Any other questions

33. Reading feeds the imagination, it expands
horizons and offers new and exciting ways of
seeing and making sense of our lives and of
the world around us.
Michael Morpurgo