Transcript LEARNING TO READ

Highfields Primary School
Learning to Read
Information for Parents
October 2015
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Jessica
at three
Comprehension
Heard 33 million words
Constant positive topical talk
1700 hours of stories
Comprehension
John
at three
Comprehension
Heard 9 million words
Instructional talk
25 hours of stories
Comprehension
How do we learn to read?
For young children, phonics is an
important part of this process.
At Highfields children pursue a rapid
‘learn to read’ programme called
Read Write Inc.
so they can
‘read to learn’ for the rest of their lives.
Read write Inc. teaches both word reading
and language comprehension
What is Read Write Inc. Phonics?
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Phonics Consists of:
• Identifying sounds in spoken words
• Recognising the common spellings of each
phoneme (sound).
• Synthesising (Blending) sounds into words
for reading.
• Segmenting words into sounds for spelling.
What is a sound?
A Phoneme is the
technical name for a
sound
A phoneme is the
smallest unit you can
hear or say in a word.
There are 44
phonemes in the
English language.
Pronounced
in their
purest
form – no
schwa.
How many phonemes
(sound) can you hear in
cat?
A grapheme is the
sound written down
These are the letters
that represent the
phoneme.
The grapheme could be 1
letter, 2 letters or more.
There are 44 phonemes in
English and about 150
different graphemes to
represent these sounds.
It’s a
complex
code.
We have a complex English alphabetic code
The English language is a complex code…
• It would be easy if we only had to learn Set 1 and
Set 2 sounds.
ay
igh
play
eight
cake
straight
right
pie
kite
fly
Set 3 sounds
So how do we make it easier for children…………..
We teach the simple code first – Set 1 sounds
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Set 1 Sounds
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What are the first steps in learning
to read? (sounds and blending)
First we need to teach a child to say and
read the sounds so they read them at
speed. Speedy recall is a very important
part of reading.
Then we will teach them to blend the
sounds together to read words (orange
card) – Fred Talk!
Word reading (Blending)
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Teaching steps for blending sounds
Review Speed Sounds
Blend sounds orally (Fred Talk)
Blend with the Speed Sound cards
Blend with the magnetic letters/ cards
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How to help your child to blend sounds
together to read words?
Let’s now watch this parent tutorial
•http://www.ruthmiskin.com/en/resources/p
arent-tutorial-teaching-sound-blending/
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What happens in a phonics
session? Pinny time!
Revisit and review
Teach
Practise
coat
Apply Apply Apply
Play a game!
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What about High Frequency and tricky words?
In addition to this, each the week the children learn
‘tricky’ red words (those that are not spelt phonetically)
and key sight vocabulary.
They will bring these home on their
‘red word’ keyring or red card.
The key sight and high frequency word lists can be found
in the handouts we will be sending home.
In total there are 300 words to learn!
100 in Rec/Year1 and an additional 200 in Year 2
Nonsense words (alien words)
bip
blun
quen
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What are the first steps in learning to
write? (segmenting for spelling,
handwriting rhymes & pencil grip)
• Identifying the individual sounds in a spoken word
(e.g. c-a-t)
• Fluent recall of the grapheme representing each
sound.
• Forming each grapheme with the correct sequence of
movements so they can efficiently write down letters
for each sound (phoneme) to form the word.
How to help your child at home…
You can read stories with your child.
Relentlessly.
• Read favourite stories over and over again
• Read some stories at a higher level than they can read for themselves.
• Listen to them reading their take home books. (RWI books)
• Help your child with their sound and word cards
• Using simple sound / word flash cards little and often.
• Listen to them reading their take home books.
• Playing a sound game. Practical or ICT based.
• Watch the storytime at home video on the ruthmiskintraining website.
You can practise pronouncing sounds.
• Remember no ‘fuh’ and ‘luh’! – no schwa
You can have fun with Fred Talk.
“What a tidy r-oo-m!”
“Where’s your c-oa-t?”
“Time for b-e-d!”
And….
•By talking to your child as much as possible and
‘feeding’ them new and different words:
“Let’s eat our lunch now.”
“Let’s munch our lunch now.”
“Let’s devour our lunch now!”
•I’m not just ….. I’m ……..
Attendance and punctuality. Even repeated
lateness can mean your child misses
this bit.
You can watch parent video tutorials.
• For how to do all these things and more
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You can order the resources online.
• https://global.oup.com/education/content/primary/series/rwi/p
arents/
http://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/home/readingowl/reading
Ideas for games.
Count the sound buttons – c a t = 3 t r ai n = 4 ch o
p = 3 h or se = 3 (sort into different pots)
Can you make a dog dig? Which phonemes do we
need to change to change a pot into a pit?
Crossing the river – you can cross the river if…
Rhyming Pebble – older children explore spelling
Silly questions – Is a dog red? Can a pen hop?
And what about my older child /
more advanced reader?
By enriching conversations through description:
“Look at that rain. It looks like little diamonds sparkling on the
window pane!”
By having fun with words and language.
“I’m as hot as a spud in a cooking pot!”
Investigate split-e
(‘magic e’) words.
By explaining idioms that might be obvious to us but strange to a
child. For example, what does ‘dotted about’ mean?
By praising your child for using new words or interesting images.
By encouraging a story voice – we do not write or spell as
we speak.
Find it … Prove it questions build comprehension power!
Further opportunities at
Highfields
Pupil progress meetings Yrs 1-6 in December
January / early February for Reception.
Open Door – a good time to sneak a peek at the
reading resources being used in your child’s
classroom.
Website http://www.highfields-essex.co.uk/
Year 1 Phonic Check meeting
Year 2 SATs preparation meeting.
Thank you for your participation this
morning.
Please spread the word that this
session will be repeated at 5:00pm
to enable as many parents as possible
to come along.
Notes from the meeting will be on
the website.