St. John Bosco P.S. Ballynease

1. St. John Bosco P.S. Ballynease Language and Literacy in the Early Years 22nd November 2012

2. What Children need to know or be able to do before learning to read and write • Adequate Spoken Vocabulary • Ability to interpret pictures • Confidence in handling a book

3. Be aware that written print is a form of communication • Be able to follow instructions • Be able to listen to a story • Be able to re-tell a story • Be able to discriminate visually

4. Be able to sequence • Have left to right eye movement • Be able to make auditory discriminations • Visually recall some words • Be able to make use of contextual clues • Have developed fine motor skills • Adequate Pencil control

5. So how is Literacy taught in the Early Years?

6. Literacy in Reception • Development of Pre-writing skills • Development of Talking and Listening • Development of Reading Readiness

7. Literacy Activities in Reception • Jigsaws to help with visual discrimination • Developing Listening skills • Retelling rhymes, songs and jingles • Pre-writing skills • Book Handling Skills

8. How do we teach Literacy In St. John Bosco P.S.? • Assess reading readiness • Phonics Programmes – Jolly Phonics & Linguistic Phonics • Modelled & Shared Reading of Big Books • Guided reading in small groups (initially pictures books) • Tricky words on flash cards • Sentence building • Segmentation of words • Shared, modelled & independent writing • Lots of discussion and questioning to ensure understanding

9. Teacher introduces book Look at title and blurb Walk through book Look at any tricky words Allow the children to read quietly themselves Teacher intervenes to support Children take turns reading the text in their group Talk about the story, the pictures and check for understanding Focus on any new words A Typical Guided Reading Lesson

10. Primary 1 • A new sound is introduced each Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday • These sounds are used to word build and blend • These letters are written using a variety of medium • 2 Tricky words are introduced each week • Independent reading books are taken home Monday - Wednesday

11. Primary 2 • We work through the 4 stages of Linguistic Phonics • Stage 1 – one letter : one sound • Stage 2 – one letter : one sound (longer words) • Stage 3 – Multi syllable words • Stage 4 – Sounds represented by more than one letter

12. In Primary 2 . . . • Children continue to receive two new words per week • Moving on to spelling lists of high frequency words in term 3 • By the end of term one in Primary 2 your child will receive a familiar book each Monday and Tuesday night and a new book on Wednesday night

13. In Primary Three • A new reading book will be introduced each week in school. • Routine of familiar book continues. • Handwriting progression • Reinforcement of high frequency words through games, many that could be played at home such as boggle, crosswords, hangman and wordsearches.

14. Primary 3 Phonics • Continue Linguistic Phonics Programme • Stage 5 – sounds can be represented in more than one way eg. Coat – snow - cone • Stage 6 – Different sounds represented in the same way. For example – • She wore a bow in her hair. • She took a bow at the end of the show. • Primary 3 Spelling Programme

15. Talk with your child Play with language Read a variety of texts Read anytime, any place anywhere! Take time to talk about the book Find letters everywhere Write on a variety of surfaces with a variety of materials Get your child to join in with repeating phrases Make sure you model reading for pleasure Read aloud – shopping lists, signs etc. How can I help my child at home?

16. Thank you for coming!