Nursery and Reception 2013/14

Phonics and Reading at Westroyd Infant and Nursery School

*What is phonics?

*The recommended approach to teach children the skills & strategies to read and write

Letters and Sounds Six phase teaching programmeEmbedded, consistent and systematic approach

• Nursery – Phase 1 go into Phase 2• Reception – Phase 2 go into Phase 3 and Phase 4

*What is phonics?

*Speaking & listening*Rhythm & rhyme

*Extend vocabulary through talk with adults

*Identify, make & explore sounds

*Teaching of sounds* Blending to Read ‘c-a-t = cat’ *Segmenting to spell ‘cat = c-a-t’ *High frequency words / Tricky words

Phase 2s a t p i n m d g o c k ck e u r

h b f,ff l,ll ssPhase 3

j v w x y z,zz qu*Actions with

sounds

*Segmenting & Blending

*Think of a 3 or 4 letter word*How would you segment (break up) the word?

p i n g e t

f o o d n i g h t

*30-50 months

Our Aim- End of Nursery*Enjoys and joins in with rhyming and rhythmic activities showing awareness of rhyme and alliteration

*Looks at books independently, holds them carefully and can hold them the right way and can turn pages correctly

* Knows that print carries meaning and, in English, is read from left to right and top to bottom.

Our Aim- End of Nursery

*Listens to and joins in with a range of texts, one-to-one and in groups and join in with repeated refrains and anticipates key events.

*Shows interest in illustrations and print in books and print in the environment and can recognises familiar words and signs such as own name and advertising logos.

*Listens to stories with increasing attention and recall and can describes main story settings, events and principal characters

*Beginning to be aware of the way stories are structured and suggests how the story might end.

*30-50 months

* Phonics in Nursery at Westroyd

*Children are encouraged to listen to sounds in their environment and work out what is making the sound. *Listen and identify rhyming words in stories, poems and songs.*Later in the year children are encouraged to match rhyming words. *Develop awareness of alliteration.*Develop and extended children’s vocabulary by making and using sounds and words to describe experiences*Begin to segment and blend simple words orally Access phonic activities twice a week, one of which being a teacher led activity

*Early learning goal

Our Aim - End of Reception

*Children read and understand simple sentences.

*They use phonic knowledge to de- code 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.

* Phonics in Reception at Westroyd

*Daily sessions of 15—20 minutes in smaller ability groups Revisit & Review

Teach new sound

Practice

Apply new learning

*Segmenting & blending simple words*Tricky words to, no, go, the, I

*Phonics in Reception at Westroyd

* Practical sessions

* Provision to enhance learning and opportunity to apply new learning

*Reading in Nursery

*Children are encouraged to look after books*Reading with an adult – use questioning and prompts to encourage children to develop reading skills such as predicting and sequencing.*When sharing stories with adults children will be encouraged to listen to the sounds in words and identify rhyme.*Independently children access the reading corner or listening station

*They are taught how to hold a book correctly and that we turn one page a time.

*Reading in Reception

*Opportunity to apply new skills- segmenting & blending*Once a week children read with an adult individually or in a group

(guided reading) recorded in green reading diary

*Promote love of reading – share a book every day in class

*Reading in Reception

*2 books home a week, one phonetically decodable book. *3rd book– library free choice book to share and enjoy together at

home*Tricky words to learn by sight and eventually spell

*How to respond to the text

*Is your child able to re-tell the story?*Can your child predict what happens before or next in the text?*Can your child talk about the main characters, setting and

events in the story?*Is your child able to refer to the text and extract simple answers

to question?*Can your child find information using a non-fiction book?*Is your child able to answer inferential questions about the text?

(reading between the lines)*Can your child comment on the use of language within a text

and suggest why an author has chosen certain words?*Does your child understand and comment on the authors point

of view and he overall effect the text might have on the reader?

*Thank you for coming

*Search ‘Jolly Phonics’ on the internet for action/ songs

*www.phonicsplay.co.uk

Feel free to join us in Reception to see some resources, activities and books that we use in

school.