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Reading is a basic life skill. It is a cornerstone for a child's success in school, and, indeed, throughout life. Without the ability to read well, opportunities for personal fulfilment and job success inevitably will be lost. -- Becoming a Nation of Readers: The Report of the Commission on Reading
By reading with your child you are • Stimulating imagination • Helping develop language skills • Demonstrating that reading is important • Giving a great start to your child’s education
So why is reading so important? • It helps children to develop curiosity about words. • Reading helps to increase vocabulary development. • Children learn how language works. • Good writing starts with good reading. • Helps children to understand the world around them.
Learning to read What makes a good reader? Decode Comprehension Attitude Respond
Reading in School Independent Reading Story time Shared Reading Guided Reading Individual Reading Reading in other subjects Signs around school Whole class texts
Guided Reading • Children read in small groups with children of a similar ability (usually on the same book band) • Specific reading skills are taught and assessed during the session • We will stamp your child’s book when they have taken part in a guided reading session
Book Banding at St Pauls • A variety of reading schemes banded into coloured boxes. • Within each box is a range of reading schemes and a wide range of texts – fiction ,non fiction, plays, phonics reading books. • Bands get progressively harder • A good book should be 95% ease and 5% challenge Yellow Green Pink Red Blue
Be a good role model • Read lots yourself - be seen reading! • Talk about what you are reading • Look for reading opportunities in everyday life • Read to your child • Be willing to share different books and texts
Let your child see that reading is important in your life. A good ten minutes reading is better than a difficult half hour Be Positive!
So what should we read? CD roms TV listings Books Magazines Newspapers Internet pages packets messages Signs and captions leaflets teletext instructions
Helping your child to become a confident and expressive reader • Talk about the text • Ask questions and make predictions. • Encourage your child to point underneath the words. • Offer your own ideas • Encourage the children to make up their own stories. • Use the pictures for clues. • Support school reading. Enjoy !
Phonics Phonics is an approach to teaching reading and spelling that enables a child to identify, Blend and segment the individual ‘phonemes’ or sounds that combine to form words
What is a phoneme? • A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound in a word. • In English there are 44 different phonemes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwJx1NSineE
What is a grapheme? • A grapheme is a symbol of a phoneme, that is a letter or group of letters representing a sound. • There is always the same number of graphemes in a word as phonemes. • The alphabet contains only 26 letters but we can use them to make all of the graphemes that represent the phonemes of English.
Terminology phoneme grapheme A sound in a word A letter or sequence of letters that represent a phoneme. These words each have three phonemes (separate sounds). Each of these phonemes is represented by a grapheme. A grapheme may consist of one, two, three or four letters.
v e t
f or k
t ee th
ee n z ch i m p a
Blending and Segmenting • Blending and segmenting are reversible key phonic skills. • Blending consists of building words from their constituent phonemes to read. • Segmenting consists of breaking down words into their constituent phonemes to spell. • Both of these skills are important.
Sound Buttons bag fish sheep
Phonics at St Pauls • Jolly Phonics scheme which introduces actions and activities for the 44 Phonemes. • We use a scheme called letters and sounds • The children work in phonics groups for 20 minutes every day • Phonics is fun, visual and active
