1. Please insert own notes for introduction/welcome.
Welcome to a brief taster of our whole school synthetic phonics reading programme – Read Write Inc!
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‘Reading by six: How the best schools do it’
‘Effective teachers are highly trained to instill the principles of phonics, can identify the learning needs of young children, and recognise and overcome the barriers that impede learning.’
HMI Ofsted report on ‘Reading by Six’
December 2010
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3. Why synthetic phonics?
“Synthetic phonics offers the vast majority of young children the best and most direct route to becoming skilled readers and writers” Sir Jim Rose
Rose Review of Reading 2006
Synthetic phonics is simply the ability to convert a letter or letter group into sounds that are then blended together into a word. More about that later...
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4. Why Read Write Inc Phonics?
Tried and tested over many years
Systematic and structured
Early success in reading
Training and ongoing staff development
We chose this particular programme because…..(insert own reasons here!) and we know that Read Write Inc:
is rooted in synthetic phonics.
has been tried and tested over and over again
is systematic, structured and therefore results in rapid teaching and learning of sounds & blending
means that, importantly and simply, when children know these sounds well and they can blend, they read books that are carefully matched to the sounds they know. Which means that children are successful from the very beginning!
gave all staff 2 whole days intensive training to teach the programme
Quote from Ruth:
“When children can’t read there is low self esteem. We want them to be reading with confidence, to be able to read quite sophisticated texts at an early age.”
Ruth Miskin – former headteacher and creator of Read Write Inc Phonics
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5. How does it work? Children:
Learn 44 sounds and matching letters/letter groups
Learn to blend sounds to read words
Read lots of specially written books
This is decoding
Hold up some set 1, 2 & 3 cards as you say the 1st & 2nd bullet point but don’t explain further yet!
Hold up some RWI storybooks as you say the 3rd bullet point but don’t explain further yet
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6. Sounds All words are made up of sounds In English there are 44
Say a short sentence in Fred Talk (use very pure sounds – no ‘uh’) to illustrate e.g. say “s_o i_f I t_al_k i_n th_i_s w_ay, y_ou w_ill h_ear ea_ch s_ou_n_d i_n m_y w_or_d_s!
Explain we use pure sounds (‘m’ not’ muh’, ’s’ not ‘suh’, etc.) so that your child will be able to blend the sounds into words more easily. Say that in school we use a puppet called Fred who can do this beautifully! We call talking like this Fred Talk. Hold up a Fred!
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7. Graphemes A grapheme is a sound written down
English has more than 150 graphemes
A complex code!
You
Explain that in English we have more 150 ways to represent 44 sounds using our 26 alphabet letters so groups of letters are used as well as single letters – these are called graphemes. Explain that we will teach the 100 most commonly used graphemes for the 44 sounds. But we will teach them systematically and very thoroughly.
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8. Chart This chart shows the most usual graphemes for the 44 sounds
See next slide.
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9. The complex English alphabetic code
This chart shows the most usual graphemes for the 44 sounds
Explain that each box is a sound box showing different ways to read and write the sound. Demo with or sound box with e.g.s of words or, door, more, dawn, author.
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10. Children learn a simple code first
Learning the code
Children learn a simple code first
Explain that this chart shows just one grapheme per sound. We divide them into set 1 and set 2 & we systematically teach set 1 & blending and then set 2 and then we go on to the full chart which includes set 3. Don’t go into detail – say this is just to explain the basics. Quickly ‘show-off’ by whizzing through the chart in pure sounds!
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11. The complex English alphabetic code
This chart shows the most usual graphemes for the 44 sounds
Explain that each box is a sound box showing different ways to read and write the sound. Demo with or sound box with e.g.s of words or, door, more, dawn, author.
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12. If English had a simple code spelling and reading would be much easier!!
play mayk trayn cafay strayt wayt brayk
green dreem kee hee happee
light kight fligh Igh igh tigh
blow smowk flowt gow mowst
moon broot bloo groo
If English had a simple code spelling and reading would be much easier!!
Have a quick read for fun.
But of course, it’s not like this!!
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13. Fred... Fred helps children learn to read
Fred can only talk in sounds...Pure sounds no ‘Ugly ugh’
(Fred can only say c_a_t, he can’t say cat)
We call this Fred Talk
Hold up Fred! Say you too can have a Fred at home – use one like this or any stuffed toy.
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Fred...
If children understand Fred
they can blend orally
Blending is needed for reading
This starts as assisted blending and develops into independent blending
Use My Turn Your Turn with the parents to have a go at some Fred Talk – you Fred Talk a CVC word d_o_g, they Fred Talk it back & ask them to tell you what word Fred is trying to say. Do a few words – sh_o_p, d_ay, s_p_l_a_sh etc. This is oral blending.
Say that once your child knows the graphemes for each sound, they can use Fred Talk for reading any word – write one of the words on a board and Fred Talk then say whole word – point to each grapheme as you Fred Talk it.
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15. Fred... Fred helps children learn to spell as well!
Children convert words into sounds
They press the sounds they hear on to their fingers...
We call this Fred Fingers/
Fred Spell
Show how to use fingers to spell some of the words you have just blended. Use My Turn Your Turn with the parents – say “show me three fingers – the word is dog.” (or shop or wish or any 3 sound word) “Now put your sounds on your fingers!”
This is the reversibility principle of decoding for reading and encoding for writing.
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16. How you can help at home Always remember Fred Talk-’Eyes for Reading’
Fred Fingers-’Fingers for spelling’
‘Never Fred a red’
Always use ‘Pure Sounds’ when segmenting-never ugly ugh!!
Show how to use fingers to spell some of the words you have just blended. Use My Turn Your Turn with the parents – say “show me three fingers – the word is dog.” (or shop or wish or any 3 sound word) “Now put your sounds on your fingers!”
This is the reversibility principle of decoding for reading and encoding for writing.
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