Key Stage 1 Parent Meeting

1. Key Stage 1 Parent Meeting Supporting your child’s literacy at home

2. Aims • To present an overview of the teaching of literacy in key stage 1 • To explain our method of teaching phonics, reading and writing • To show some of our new books and resources • To highlight the ways in which you can support your child’s development in literacy at home

3. Literacy is split into 3 strands • Speaking and Listening • Reading • Writing Guided Reading Shared Reading Story time Individual Reading Mark making Modelling writing Units of writing Cross curricular Guided Writing Handwriting Storytelling Talk for writing Drama Presentations Discussion

4. Importance of Talk “In a multimedia world adults have less time to talk and listen to children, but children need to talk to learn and grow.” “Reading and writing float on a sea of talk…” Sue Palmer

5. Unlocking the code • Phonics - Once a child can work out the words (decode) he can then begin to sort out the message (comprehend) • Context – pictures and clues • Understanding – asking questions, characters, language • What skills do you bring to reading?

6. Unlocking the Code

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8. Unlocking the Code

9. What is phonics and how can I help at home? • Phonics is all about using … skills for reading and spelling knowledge of the alphabet + Learning phonics will help your child to become a good reader and writer.

10. Phonic terms your child will learn at school The smallest unit of sound in a word • Phoneme • Grapheme The letter/s representing that sound a, ch, ai • Blending To join the phonemes together to make a word • Segmenting To separate the word into phonemes sh/o/p • Digraph Two letters making one sound sh, ee, ar, ff • Trigraph Three letters making one sound igh, dge, tch • Phoneme frame A grid in which to put each phoneme • Sound button A mark placed beneath each phoneme in the frame Words that cannot be segmented or blended because they are irregular • Tricky Words ·· -

11. 44 sounds or phonemes

12. Letters and Sounds • Phase 1: speaking and listening, rhyme and alliteration, orally blending • Phase 2:Phoneme/Grapheme correspondance: ( s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d, og, o, c, k, ck, e, words. Graphemes: ear, air, ure, eu, r, h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss) • Phase 3: CVC r, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ai, ee, igh, oa, oo. Consonant digraphs ch, sh, th, ng. Letter progression y ,z, zz, qu, j, v, w, x. • Phase 4: Segmenting and Blending for reading and writing • Phase 5: Alternative spelling patterns, vowel digraphs • Phase 6: suffixes, tenses, plurals

13. Teaching Phonics • Focus on the sound of the letter • Robot talk • Count the phonemes – phoneme frames • Play with the sounds

14. Reading

15. Reading • Streamlined reading books - breadth • Reflecting phonic teaching • Variety of publishers – range of genres, illustrators, text types • Guided Reading – skills of reading • Individual reading – practice parents support

16. Higher order reading skills • 1) Evidence from text • 2) Sequencing events • 3) Understanding of vocabulary • 4) Deduction • 5) Inference • 6) Justification • 7) Recognise authorial choice / voice • 8) Express opinions / evaluating

17. Reading at Home • As parents you hold the key to helping your child to become a confident and successful reader • The majority of reading your child does takes place at home and your help can determine how much they enjoy reading and progress • You are the child’s first and most important teacher • Model reading as the norm in your home – reading fro pleasure as well as purpose • Think of ways to make it fun

18. Making reading an enjoyable experience • Choose a quiet time 10-15 minutes is normally enough. • Always start by talking about the book together, look at the pictures, encourage prediction. • Give them time, if your child mispronounces do not interrupt immediately, allow time for self correction. • Encourage your child to work out unfamiliar words by using picture clues, sounding out or reading on to see what word would make sense. • Ask questions about the text – vocabulary, characters, prediction • Remember! there is more to being a good reader than just being able to read the words accurately.

19. Writing

20. How we teach writing • Modelling writing – whole class and group • Units of writing – fiction, non fiction, poetry • Cross curricular – independent learning, History Science • Guided Writing – teacher led • Handwriting

21. Writing • Talk for Writing • Modelling and exploring genres • Recording in different ways • Early stages content – see themselves as a writer • Secretarial skills - Phonics link with spelling, handwriting

22. Writing at home • Make it real and make it fun • Birthday and Christmas Lists • Shopping Lists • Letters and e-mails • Holiday diaries

23. Thank you for coming Remember to • Talk with your child • Read stories to them and model reading and writing • Have fun with your child with words and language and games.