Transcript Reading Meeting

Reading Meeting
Class One
Class Two
Stories make you think and dream;
books make you want to ask
questions. Michael Morpurgo
Welcome
Curriculum expectations.
Enjoyment of reading.
Reading at home
Do
• Keep reading time relaxed, comfortable and
pleasurable- this is the time for your children to
show you how well they can read and to be
storytellers.
• Find a quiet space, with the television turned off.
• Make it a special time together. Talk about books,
covers, stories and written words around the
house.
Reading at home
Don’t
• Correct too often or too quickly.
• Make reading negative or pressured.
• Get worried or frustrated with progresschildren need plenty of practise.
• We use a successful reading programme called
‘Read Write Inc’ that enables every child to
become a confident and fluent reader. It is a
comprehensive phonics programme covering
comprehension, reading and writing skills. The
children will learn:
• The corresponding letters/letter groups for 44
sounds using simple picture prompts.
• Learn to read using sound blending (Fred talk).
• Read lively stories featuring words they have
learnt to sound out.
Key Words
• Phoneme- the sound a letter makes.
• Grapheme- the way the letter is written.
• Digraph- when two letters make one sound for example ch or
sh.
• Trigraph- when three letters make one sound.
• Split-digraph- e.g. a-e as in same.
• Fred talk/segmenting- splitting words into sounds.
• Blending- pushing the sounds together to read a word.
• Red words- words that cannot be sounded out, e.g. was.
Please note that some words start off as red words and then
move to green words as children learn more sounds.
• High frequency words- most common words found in
children’s literature.
Teaching your child phonics at home
Do
• Always use pure sounds. Here is a link to the ‘Read Write Inc’
sound pronunciation guide.
http://www.ruthmiskin.com/en/resources/soundpronunciation-guide
• Make phonics fun and interesting, you could go outside and
write some graphemes on the concrete with chalk! Ask your
child to be the teacher and teach you the new sounds they
have been taught.
• Look for the initial sounds in words. Ask your children what
sound they can hear at the start of a word e.g. mummy starts
with a ‘m’.
• Be careful of tricky sounds such as onion, it does start with ‘o’
but children will hear the sound ‘u’.
Teaching your child phonics at home
Don’t
• Focus on letter names (the alphabet). This may
confuse children and take the focus away from
pure sounds.
• Push children to blend too quickly, this is a skill
that will take plenty of practise.
• Ask children to segment and blend red words
such as: I, was, no, my, the, of, me, to, said, your,
do.
Class Two
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Reading books at school (book bands).
Guided reading.
Home school diaries.
SATS
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/
national-curriculum-assessments-2016sample-materials
• Grammar, punctuation and spelling.
To end with…
Reading is all about
enjoyment!