1. 10 th October 2012

2.  How we teach children to read  Is reading just about decoding?  Hearing reading in school  How you can help  Common concerns  Any questions?  Opening of classrooms to look at the resources available.

3.  Some definitions-  A phoneme – This is the smallest unit of a sound in a word.  How many phonemes can you hear in the word cat?  A grapheme – These are the letters that represent the phoneme. The grapheme could be 1letter, 2 letters or more. We call these Sound Buttons.

4.  CVC words are made up of single letter sounds.  c-a-t d-o-g m-a-t b-e-d  Blending and segmenting – splitting the words into their sounds and blending to read the unfamiliar word.  n- igh-t t-r-ai-n sh-ee-p  Sound buttons

9.  because- birds eat cake and uncles suck eggs  people – people eat oranges penguins lay eggs  Making up your own mnemonic for tricky words, can help children to remember the spellings.

15. 1. Phonic knowledge 2. Little words in big words- e.g. Independent 3. Context, miss out and read words before/ after- what makes sense? 4. Look at the pictures for help.

17.  Texts sent home not hard enough for child.  Is my child where he/she should be with regard to reading.  Child choosing same book again.

19.  https://www.education.gov.uk/publications/s tandard/publicationdetail/Page1/DFES- 00281-2007 https://www.education.gov.uk/publications/s tandard/publicationdetail/Page1/DFES- 00281-2007  http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/ http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/  http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/ http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/  http://www.sparklebox.co.uk/literacy/alphab et/ http://www.sparklebox.co.uk/literacy/alphab et/  http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpict ures/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpict ures/  www.literacytrust.org.uk www.literacytrust.org.uk