Transcript Primary 1 to 3 guide - Luthermuir Primary School

Active Literacy
Pyramid of Learning
Reading
• Book Banding – books are colour coded, not
organised by ‘level’
• Parent prompt sheet – with suggestions to try
when children have difficulty reading a word
• Read story to a sibling, teddy , relative, record
it or even Face Time!
Cross check
Did the word you said sound right?
look right?
make sense?
Chunky Monkey
Look for chunks you know
Wed-nes-day
Pic-tures
Rhyming Robot
‘chair’ reminds me
of hair and fair
Cover the ending walking
Cover the –ed or –ing
Focus on the root
word walk.
Then add the
ending back.
walked
Magic ‘e’
Makes the vowel day
its name but it
stays silent.
mate
When 2 vowels go walking…
a
Chair
… the first one
does the talking.
Use the pictures
‘Oh that word must be dragon
because I see one in the
picture’.
Skip the word
Read the rest of the sentence,
then come back and try again.
There are often clues in the
sentence which can help.
3 sounds of -ed
t
baked
d
waved
id
haunted
Swap the sound
Swap the sound
Phonics
A method of teaching spelling and reading bases
on the sounds of letters – not their names
s – ssss
not
es
a – aaaa
not
ay
First 6 sounds – a
t
s
I
p
n
Common Words
• Common words – often cannot be sounded
out, need to use other strategies to learn
them
• Children will learn 3 new words a week
• Children will very quickly build up a bank of
‘sight’ words to use in their reading and
writing
• Primary 1
3 words a week
• First 3 common words - a
at the
5 Finger Approach
Make/
Break
Blend
Read
Say
Write
Handwriting
It is important to start writing letters in the correct place.
Children should be use a froggy legs pencil grip