Transcript Phonics and Early Reading

Phonics and Early Reading
Why, how and when?
This session…
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Some time discussing
Some time having a go
Some time chatting
All the time learning together
Phonics is…
• Letter sound correspondence
• Vital – it allows a quick start approach to
reading
• One of the early building blocks to
becoming a fluent reader
Where do we begin…
• Letter sounds – pure sounds – why?
• s,a,t,p,i,n ???? Why start with these
letters and not abc?
– Challenge…How many 3 letter words can you
make in 1 minute?
What if I then add in….?
• m, d, g, o, c, e, k
• So now you have…
s,a,t,p,i,n,m,d,g,o,c,e,k
How many words can you make now?
Phonic lesson shape
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Introduction
Revisit and revise previous letter sounds
Teach new letter sound or key words
Practise using them
Apply them by writing within a sentence
A tip for reading…
• When a child gets stuck we always resort
to ‘sound it out’.
• Use your arm!!
• Letter names and sound
What are these words they keep
saying?
• Technical vocabulary….
– Sounds = Phonemes
– Letters (the way we write the sounds) =
graphemes
The graphemes can then be split down
further…
1 letter making 1 sound = graph = a
2 letters making 1 sounds = di-graph = ay
3 letters making 1 sounds = ? = igh
Breaking words into their
phonemes (sounds)
• Say the word to your self slowly what parts
can you hear?
• Challenge…How many sounds in cat?
The answer is 3
c/a/t
How about these?
• Dog
• Field
• Happy
• d/o/g = 3
• f/ie/l/d = 4
• h/a/pp/y = 4
What about this one?
• make
• How many sounds here?
• Answer = 3
• m / a / k /e
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1 sound
Early reading
• Phonics is only one part of early reading.
• Context – often this comes from using the
picture to give the children a clue.
• Word recognition – that bank of words
they know that they don’t have to sound
out.
• As they develop their use of grammar
helps with intonation and expression.
Reading
• Guided Reading – a group of children of
similar abilities reading a text together.
Teacher teaching the skills of reading.
• Shared Reading – happens all the
time…Large texts read together on the
board etc.
• Individual reading – reading 1:1 with an
adult.
How can parents help with reading
at home?
• Have fun!
• When reading a book remember you can read it more
than once – in fact choosing a random page to read
helps check understanding.
• If a child is stuck on a word – count to 10 before jumping
in – often they are just processing and need a little time.
• If they really are stuck try reading the rest of the
sentence then looking at the first sound and the picture
work out together what word might fit.
• Play games with the text…Cover the picture when they
are reading to make it more tricky. You could play ‘I bet
you’….
• Reading a book together and picking out words you
know.
• Always record your home reading in the school log book
as these are counted for our reading challenge!