1. Welcome to Reception Reading Meeting 2015

2. Introduction Letter formation 44 sounds Name, sound, action
Practise recognising, saying and writing and use actions

3. Why Teach Phonics?
The phonics system teaches children to read quickly and skillfully
Recognising individual letters
Recognising different combinations of letters to form a sound and blending them together

4. Learning to Read
Taught daily until the end of year 2 in 6 different phases
Letters and sounds document sets out the order of teaching
As well as how the sounds must be pronounced (video clip)
There are many things that children must learn before they are ready to read.
Phase 1
Lots and lots of speaking!
Rhyming
Learning what sounds right!
‘reading a picture’ – inference
Blending
Segmenting

5. Terminology
Graphemes (letters) are used to represent sounds (phonemes) c a t Sometimes 2, 3 or 4 graphemes are used together to make one phoneme s u n s n ow s l igh t s l eigh A digraph is two graphemes which represent one phoneme e.g oo, ay, oa A trigraph is 3 graphemes together which make on phoneme e.g igh, air, are

6. Spelling Rules Many different ways to form the same sound!
b ai t w eigh t p l ay
The same spelling can make the same sound!
c ow b l ow b oo k c oo l
You can begin to see how learning the sounds helps to make sense with reading and writing

7. Word Recognition
Alongside teaching phonemes we also teach a range of key words.
Some words are not phonetic and cannot be sounded out. These are known as Tricky Words
Always try to use new words (tricky or not) in a sentence

8. Learning to write Learning to read and write go hand in hand
We teach the two side by side
Letter formation – cursive script with patter

9. Reading books School reading scheme Phonic bags Inference cards
Blending cards
Practice at home each day

10. Tonight Explore reading materials Sign phonic bag letter
Take home information including ideas for encouraging reading at home and how to pronounce phonemes correctly