Transcript Year 1 Coffee Morning - St Albert`s Catholic Primary School

Year 1 Coffee Morning
Today we will talk about…..
• Transition from reception to
year 1
• Supporting your child’s
reading
• Phonics
• Attendance and punctuality
Reading in Year 1
How do our children learn to read?
In reception children will begin to
read through phonics. Once children
begin learning sounds, they are used
quickly to read and spell words.
Children can then see the purpose of
learning sounds. For this reason, the
first six letters that are taught are
‘s’, ‘a’, ‘t’, ‘p’, ‘i’, ‘n’. These can
immediately be used to make a
number of words such as ‘sat’, ‘pin’,
‘pat’, ‘tap’, ‘nap’
Blending for Reading
• To learn to read well children must be able to
smoothly blend sounds together. Blending sounds
fluidly helps to improve fluency when reading.
Blending is more difficult to do with longer words so
learning how to blend accurately from an early age is
imperative.
Segmenting for Reading and
Spelling
• Segmenting is a skill used in spelling. In order to spell
the word cat, it is necessary to
segment the word
into its constituent sounds; c-a-t.
• Children often understand segmenting as ‘chopping’ a
word. Before writing a word young children need time
to think about it, say the word several times, ‘chop’
the word and then write it. Once children have
written the same word several times they won’t need
to use these four steps as frequently
Strategies for Reading
• Use Picture Clues; Look at the picture. Are there people,
objects, or actions in the picture that might make sense in the
sentence?
• Sound Out the Word; Start with the first letter, and say each
letter-sound out loud. Blend the sounds together and try to say
the word. Does the word make sense in the sentence?
• Look for Chunks in the Word; Look for familiar letter chunks.
They may be sound/symbols, prefixes, suffixes, endings, whole
words, or base words. Read each chunk by itself. Then blend the
chunks together and sound out the word. Does that word make
sense in the sentence?
• Connect to a Word You Know; Think of a word that looks like
the unfamiliar word. Compare the familiar word to the
unfamiliar word. Decide if the familiar word is a chunk or form
of the unfamiliar word. Use the known word in the sentence to
see if it makes sense. If so, the meanings of the two words are
close enough for understanding.
• Reread the Sentence; Read the sentence more than
once. Think about what word might make sense in the
sentence. Try the word and see if the sentence makes
sense.
• Keep Reading; Read past the unfamiliar word and
look for clues. If the word is repeated, compare the
second sentence to the first. What word might make
sense in both?
• Use Prior Knowledge; Think about what you know
about the subject of the book, paragraph, or
sentence. Do you know anything that might make
sense in the sentence? Read the sentence with the
word to see if it makes sense.
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High Frequency
Words
High frequency (common) are words
that recur frequently in much of the
written material young children read
and that they need when they write.
There is a list of the first 300 words
in each pack.
Tricky Words
Tricky words are words that cannot
be ‘sounded-out’ but need to be
learned by heart. They don’t fit into
the usual spelling patterns. In order
to read simple sentences, it is
necessary for children to know some
words that have unusual or untaught
spellings. It should be noted that,
when teaching these words, it is
important to always start with sounds
already known in the word, then focus
on the 'tricky' part.
‘what’,
‘was’...both
tricky because
you can’t sound
them out...you
just have to
remember
them!
Phonics
• The alphabet contains only 26 letters. Spoken English
uses about 42 sounds (phonemes). These phonemes
are represented by letters (graphemes). In other
words, a sound can be represented by a letter (e.g. ‘s’
or ‘h’) or a group of letters (e.g. ‘th’ or ‘ear’)
•
Year 1 Phonics Screening Test
• Test that all year 1
children do in the
summer term.
• 40 words; 20 nonsense
words to phonically
decode.
• Pass rate is 32 out of
40.
• If children score below
32 then they will have
the chance to retake
the test in year 2.
How you can help
• Read daily with your child
• Talk with your child
• When reading:
talk about the pictures
what do you think the book is
about?
what did/didn’t you like?
Attendance and Punctuality
• School starts at five to nine, children
must be on the yard at this time to be
collected by class teacher.
• First lesson of the day is phonics.
• Attendance in year 1 is important
Other information
• Home work will be given each Friday to
be in on a Monday.
• Children will do PE twice a week – full
kit is needed.
• Snack is £1 per week.