Transcript Helping Your Child to Learn to Read

Helping Your Child to Learn
to Read
St Alphege CE Infant School
and Sunbeams Nursery
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we help in school…
Nurture a love of reading.
Use Book banding to give children clear target for
reading and a range of books to choose from.
Teach reading every day using phonics and guided
reading.
Reinforce through the whole curriculum.
Encourage reading at home.
Tips for Success
Read every day
Talk about the books every day
Sit somewhere comfy
Give your child your FULL attention
Help your child to track the words as
they read
• PRAISE, PRAISE, PRAISE!
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What do I say when my child is
stuck on a word?
Sound out the word
Sh i p
• Try “sound buttoning” the word. Move your
finger under each sound, saying the sound as
you do… (‘ssshhh’ i
p)
• Then blend the sounds to say the word.
• (Ssship) (Ship)
Find the different sounds
(phonemes) and keep them pure
Say sssss not ‘suh’
Say tttt not ‘tuh’
See an example from this link…
http://phonicbooks.wordpress.com/2011/03/13/how-tosay-the-sounds-of-letters-in-synthetic-phonics/
Caution- this will link to the main U-Tube website
Look at the picture
• Is there a clue to guess the word?
• I play with the …
Consider the initial letter and
link it to the picture
I have a hat and s…….
Read on and go back
“Peter Pan shot the …… from his
bow.”
What is the book about?
Learn the sight vocabulary
together…
here 1. Find the words in books.
you
2. Hide them around the house.
was
3. Try a few every day
and
4. Practice again and again.
we
said
all
no
Ask your child questions
about the book…
What is going to happen next?
Who are the characters?
What has happened so far?
What do you like most about the story?
Reading for meaning…
• What word tells you that she is angry?
• How do we know that it was dark?
• How can we tall that he was dreaming?
• Which route should he of taken and
why?
Reading beyond books…
• Share comics
• Play word games
• Read signs
• Put subtitles on the TV
Show your child that you enjoy
reading!
Pink Book Band
(working towards Level 1 – WC/WB)
• Find title
• Open front cover
• Turn pages properly
• Understand that the left page comes before the
right
• Understand that we read from left to right
• Point to each word as it is read – 1:1 correspondence
• Use the meaning of the text
• Use language patterns
• Predict the story
• Predict some unknown words
• Recognise some letters by what they look like or
sound like
• Read one word for each word seen
Red Book Band
(Working towards level 1 – WA)
• Find and remember title
• Match written and spoken words 1:1
• Use known words to help understand the
sentence
• Repeat words, phrases or sentences to check
and be sure of understanding
• Blend and read CVC words
• Use phonic knowledge to attempt unknown
words
• Read on sight familiar and important words
• Recognise 10 tricky words
Yellow Book Band
(1C)
• Use punctuation to help reading
• Notice familiar words and letter patterns and use
these to help read new words
• Find things that are the same or similar in different
texts e.g. Curly the Caterpillar
• Predict in more detail
• Read on sight familiar and important words
• Say what they do and don’t like about a text
• Talk about stories and other texts identifying main
points and themes
• Use phonic knowledge to attempt unknown words
• Read to the end of a sentence to work out an
unfamiliar word
• Read about 15 tricky key words
Blue Book Band
(1C)
• Take notice of meaning, words and sentence structure, to
help us read
• Self correct more quickly during reading
• Re-read to make the text sound more interesting and to
help us understand it
• Solve new words using different clues – meaning of the
sentence, known words, letter patterns, using what you
already know about a word or sentence
• Read a wide range of books and types of text
• Talk about the book and show we have understood
• Use awareness of grammar to help decipher new or
unfamiliar words
• Blend phonemes to read words containing consonant
clusters and long vowel phonemes
• Read about 20 tricky words
• Identify and discuss main events and key points in a text
Green Book Band
(1B)
• Read fluently noticing punctuation
• Read familiar texts aloud with fluency and expression
appropriate to the grammar
• Solve new words using a range of clues and investigating
words that fit
• Track lines of text without finger pointing
• Read a range of texts
• Talk about the character and story plot in detail
• Blend phonemes to read words containing consonant
clusters and long vowel phonemes
• Sustain independent reading to complete texts
• Locate specific information in a text to find the answers
(retrieval)
• Understand how simple diagrams and charts add
information
• Relate story setting and incidents to own experience
Orange Book Band
(1A)
• Read more complex sentences
• Solve new words using a range of clues and
cross check
• Notice a range of punctuation
• Infer meaning and work out what the author is
suggesting
• Recognise the full range of vowel digraphs and
trigraphs
• Identify syllables in order to read polysyllabic
words
Turquoise Book Band
(1A)
• Read different genres more confidently
• Use punctuation and text layout to read
expressively
• Keep reading through longer sentences and
paragraphs
• Work out and tackle a larger number of more
difficult words
• Recognise common prefixes and suffixes and
regular verb endings to construct the meaning of
words in context
• Make simple inferences about thoughts, feelings
and reasons for actions
Purple Book Band
(2C)
• Look at lots of different texts with
independence and predict
• Read silently at a good pace, using punctuation
to help
• Work out most unknown words “on the run”
• Identify some literary effects writers use e.g.
good adjectives
• Use reading to extend speaking and listening
• Understand how to use alphabetically ordered
texts to retrieve information, written vocabulary
• Scan the text to find specific answers
• Make simple inferences about thoughts, feelings
and reasons for actions
Gold Book Band
(2B)
• Confidently predict the content and layout of a text
by looking through
• Read silently at a rapid pace, using punctuation to help
• Work out most unknown words "on the run"
• Take notice of literary effects writers use
• Use reading to extend speaking and written vocabulary
• Read aloud with intonation and expression, taking
account of the punctuation e.g. speech marks and
exclamation marks
• Generate questions before reading and use
bibliographical knowledge to help retrieve specific
information
• Identify how ideas link and how a writer does this
White Book Band
(2A)
• Read silently most of the time
• Stay interested in longer texts and returns to them easily
after a break
• Search for and find information in texts easily
• Notice the spelling of unknown words and relate to new
words
• More aware of vocabulary and exact meanings
• Discuss and offer own opinions and ideas about the text
• Begin to understand the effects of different words and
phrases e.g. to create humour, images and atmosphere
• Evaluate the usefulness of the information in particular
texts for answering questions
• Understand the deeper un-stated meaning of a text
Lime Book Band / Free reader
• (L3)
• Recognise a range of prefixes and suffixes to construct the
meanings of words in context
• Recognise the function of the apostrophe for omission and
pronounce contracted forms correctly
• Recognise a full range of consonant digraphs e.g. kn, wr, ph
• Understand how pronouns in 1st, 2nd and 3rd person forms are
used in sentences and apply this info to maintain understanding
when reading
• Know how language is used to create effects e.g. adjectives and
adverbs and use to create detailed mental images
• Understand the difference between prose and play script
• Explore underlying themes and ideas, making clear reference to
text
• Discuss the actions of the main characters and justify views using
evidence from the text (f)
• Sustain silent reading to include longer, more complex texts
• Draw on knowledge of authors and types of books they write to
inform choices
Lime Book Band / Free reader
contd…
• Understand
how dialogue is punctuated and laid out and read with
appropriate expression
• Read aloud with intonation and expression taking account of
punctuation e.g. commas to mark pauses
• When reading aloud show awareness and understanding of the
different voices in stories (f)
• Read aloud confidently to an audience e.g. playscript, performance
poem or favourite passage from a text
• Understand how to use indexes to locate specific info
• Use bibliographical knowledge e.g. indexes to locate specific info
• Understand the features of page layout in non-fiction texts e.g.
subheadings, labels, diagrams, charts (nf)
• Identify the main point and summarise orally the content of a
passage of text (nf)
• Use notes to summarise the main points from a passage of text
(nf)
• Evaluate the usefulness of information e.g. follow instructions to
see if they work (nf)