1. What is phonics? How does it help with reading and writing?

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3. Cracking a Code

4. How did we know? ‘Feel’ for language. Knowledge and understanding of the world. Syntax – language pattern of sentences. Word patterns. Knowledge of letters and sounds. Punctuation.

5. Starts with Sound

7. Phonological Awareness Being able to: locate sounds discriminate sounds (environment, instruments, body percussion) rhythm and rhyme alliteration voice sounds sequencing oral blending and segmenting (Toy Talk/Robot Speak)

8. Phonics

9. Matching Shapes to Sounds Writing – encoding Reading – decoding

10. Matching Shapes to Sounds Writing – encoding Reading – decoding Systematic

11. Letters and Sounds Toy Talk Graphemes and Phonemes Sound Buttons CVC words Onset and rime High Frequency Words Digraphs

12. Book Bands Variety Systematic Skill based

13. Reading at the Early Stages Walk Through the Book Talk about – title, cover illustrations, blurb, predict. Introduce - unknown proper nouns, tricky words (that aren’t ‘target’ words) Play – find the word, look for a … Talk about – each page; paraphrase what will be read.

14. Reading at the Early Stages Read ‘My turn, your turn’. Pause If they get stuck. Prompt Give an appropriate clue. Praise Their efforts. Correct sensitively if necessary. Read Reread sentence where error occurred to develop accuracy and understanding.

15. Reading at the Early Stages Talk What have they understood? Personal response. Develop vocabulary.

16. What Can Parents/Carers Do To Help? Talk! Sing (even if it’s not in tune!). Have the radio on in the background. Tell stories (real or imagined). Read to/with them (a range of sources in all sorts of places). Let them see you reading and writing. Use the library. Have a store of books that are easily accessed.

17. What Can Parents/Carers Do To Help? Practise letter sounds – crisp, sharp sounds. Stretch out words – identify phonemes. Practise recognising individual words. Make and break a sentence. Find time for them to read – establish good habits, make it essential, every day skill – quality. Encourage/ensure home-school books are returned weekly. Support spelling practice – encourage sounding out.

18. What Can Parents/Carers Do To Help? Use a dictionary. Use ‘big’ words. Talk about the news. Make capital letters really tall! Letter names – only when letter ‘sounds’ are known. Use upper and lower case to write names. Let your child teach you.

19. Home Time! Thank you for coming and supporting your child.

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