Reading workshop

for Reception Parents

Tuesday 17th November 2015

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Why have a Reading workshop?

• We are developing a love of reading as part of our school action plan.

• The EYFS team feel it would be beneficial to share the national expectations for reading and model effective strategies for supporting your child’s reading at home.

Reading in Reception

• All children are beginning the process of learning to read

• Learning to read in Reception means access to other subjects;

• Maths • Science• History & Geography• Languages

What is the national expectation by the end of Reception?

• Children in Reception are working towards achieving the following Early Learning Goal:

Children read and understand simple sentences. They use phonic knowledge to

decode regular words and read them aloud accurately. They also read some common

irregular words. They demonstrate understanding when talking with others about

what they have read.

Aims for the evening

• To discuss how young children learn to read.

• To understand what reading activities take place in school.

• To understand what ‘phonics’ is and the different reading strategies children can use to help them when reading.

• To know how to help your child use phonics to develop their reading.

• To develop parents knowledge of early reading and how best to support a Child at home.

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Reading should have a purpose!

Children will often read but they will become successful and confident readers if they have a reason to read!

Reading should be a purposeful activity that has an outcome. For example:• To find out what happens at the end of the story• To make informed decisions and opinions• To read instructions about how to play a game• To find some out some facts

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How does your child learn to read?

These are the strategies that your child will use to learn to read;• Phonics- knowing the letter sounds, individual

and multiple letter sounds• Word recognition- high frequency and tricky

words• Context clues- using what they have already

read and the pictures to work out what the words say.

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How do we teach reading? When do we teach reading?

We teach reading through:• Daily letters and sounds sessions (phonics lessons)• Individual reading• Shared reading, as a whole class or in small groups• Guided reading, a small group of children reading the

same book, which is appropriate to their ability.• Having a word rich environment within the classroom.• Providing lots of independent reading activities to

encourage children to apply reading skills they have learnt.

Guided Reading• More personalised approach to teaching of reading• Small ability based groups • Focus on particular needs of that group so all children are

challenged and extended• Books can be chosen to suit interests and ability of that

group• Children can learn from each other• Opportunities to discuss and analyse texts• Experience different types of texts

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Concepts about print

Why are concepts about print important?

• Concepts of print teach children at an early age how to orient themselves in terms of reading.

• Concepts of print are a great predictor in a childs future success as a reader and influence a childs fluency and accuracy as a reader later in life.

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Concepts about print include:

Holding books with correct orientationDistinction between pictures, letters and wordsLeft to right directionalityReturn sweepLower and uppercase lettersOne to one correspondencePunctuationBeginning and end of a sentence

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Reading strategies

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PhonicsHow is phonics taught?

Throughout EYFS – KS1• Phases 1-6• Within year group• By a Teacher or Teaching Assistant• Interactive games and activities• Reading and writing

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Phonics consists of:

Identifying sounds in spoken words

Recognising the common spellings of each phoneme.

Blending phonemes into words for reading.

Segmenting words into phonemes for spelling.

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A typical phonics lesson

• Revise and revisit • Teach• Practice• Apply

he she we me be was

you they all are my her

The lingo... PHONEME

A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound in a word.

When we talk about phonemes we are talking about sounds.

A phoneme can be represented/spelled in more than one way e.g. cat, kennel, choir

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The lingo... GRAPHEME

A grapheme is a letter or sequence of letters that represents a phoneme.

The same grapheme may represent more than one phoneme e.g. me, met

A grapheme may consist of one (t), two (ch) or more letters (igh)

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To put it simply… A phoneme you hear

A grapheme you see

• A word always has the same number of phonemes and graphemes!

• Cat high

The lingo... DIGRAPH

Where one phoneme/sound is represented by two letters e.g.

ooeechsh

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The lingo... TRIGRAPH

Where one phoneme/sound is represented by three letters e.g.

airure ighear

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The lingo... SPLIT DIGRAPH

Where one sound is represented by two letters split up by another letter

e.g. o_e as in bonea_e as in savei_e as in line

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The lingo... LETTER NAMES

Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz

It is important that children do not try to sound out words using their letter names.

Both upper case and lower case letters have the same name.

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In the English language there are

26 letters

44 phonemes

140 graphemes

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Phonics for reading

To help children read unknown words, we encourage them to ‘sound them out’.

This means we are asking children to say each individual sound in order as they

see it.

When they have said all the sounds they can blend them altogether to make the

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• Blending is merging the sounds together and is a vital skill for reading.

• Eg: c-a-t = cat

• If children can’t hear the word the first time, we encourage them to repeat the word a little quicker until they can hear the words.

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VC and CVC words

• C = consonant, V = vowel• VC words are those consisting of a vowel and

then a consonant, eg: at, in, up• CVC words follow the pattern consonant,

vowel, consonant, eg: cat, dog, pet• Words such as tick or bell also count as CVC

words; although they contain four letters, they only have three sounds

Can you spot the odd one Out?

said shop

and

Challenge 1

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rain

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bright

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witch

Pronunciation

For children to get the most out of their phonics, it is really important that they pronounce them clearly

and precisely.

Clear and consistent pronunciation will allow them to ‘sound out’ words

really easily.

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Challenge 2

How do you think you should say these sounds?

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A p

m

t

s

aK

c T

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Saying the sounds

• Your child will be taught how to pronounce the sounds (phonemes) correctly to make blending easier

• Sounds should be sustained where possible (eg, sss, mmm, fff)

• If not, ‘uh’ sounds after consonants should be reduced where possible (eg, try to avoid saying ‘b-uh’, ‘c-uh’)

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqhXUW_v-1s

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Tricky words

• Your child will also learn several tricky words; those that cannot be sounded out

• Eg: the, to, I, go, no

• It is very important that children do not try and sound out these words but recognise them on sight.

How would you support your child to read this page?

Home Readers

• 2 books sent home• 1 Easy text for fluency and 1 at an instructional

level to encourage children to apply the knowledge they have learnt.

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Some questions you may use when your child is reading to you:

• Do you like this book, why?• Who is your favourite character?• Tell me about a character in the book.• Which words tell you what the character is like?• How would you feel?• What do you think will happen next?• What would you do?• What have you learned about….. In your book?• What can you tell me about…?

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What to do if your child is stuck:

• Use phonics first. What sound does the word begin with? Can you say the sounds in the word? Blend them together.

• Read to the end of the sentence. What would make sense?

• What is the story about- what might fit here? Does it sound right?

• Look at the picture does it help?

No matter what I do, my child doesn’t want to read!

• Read to your child as much as possible• Don’t make an issue out of it• Paired reading• Make it fun!

Organise a treasure hunt around the house on a rainy day. Give your child a list of things that they can find in the house and see how quickly they can collect all the items.

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How can you encourage your child to read?

• By reading with them and to them• Making time to read together• Pointing out words, labels, signs as you are driving

along or out shopping• Reading books they choose not just books from

school• Ensure children have access to a range of reading

materials: books, poems, magazines and leaflets- capture their interests. If children want to read a comic let them!

• Visit the library and give books as presents.• Read and recognise tricky words within the story.

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How can you encourage your child to read continued…

• Making bingo, matching games• Cutting out words from magazines and newspapers.• Play ‘I spy’- can children say I spy a word with the

‘oa’sound• Continue to play with magnetic letters, using some

two-grapheme (letter) combinations, eg: r-ai-n = rain blending for reading

rain = r-ai-n segmenting for spelling• Praise your child for trying out words and give them

time to decode a word.• Create phonic games with a timer• Play pairs

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Questions

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Websites you may find fun to use with your child at home to help with reading and phonics:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/cvc/index.shtml http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/alphablocks/games/alphablocks-games/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/fun-with-phonics/watch/fun-with-phonics-clips/ http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/freeIndex.htm

Useful websites• Booktrust www.booktrust.org.uk• Read Together www.readtogether.co.uk• Silly Books www.sillybooks.net• Signed Stories www.signedstories.com• Seven Stories www.sevenstories.org.uk