Last week:

1. Last week: Home Reading Session & Finding Best Fit books

2. Your home reading session • Step 1 – Look through the pictures and the cover – have a chat about what you see • Step 2 – Talk about any difficult words or interesting punctuation you might see as you flip through • Step 3 - Read the title • Step 4 - What do you think this story might be about? • Step 5 - Read the text • Step 6 – Discuss the story (Why? What? How?....) ‘I do, we do, you do’ ……putting it into practice

3. Visual Structure Meaning The 3 cueing systems Making Meaning . Meaning making occurs when all three cueing systems work together

4. Visual Cat/car Scrap scrub scream Knowledge of the conventions of print way words look relationship between sounds and letters Bar/bare, Ho – hot, house, hook, hoist, honey there, their, they’re Minute/minute

5. Subject, verb object Structure Verbs and verb tense Nouns A big black fierce dog Knowledge about the system of language. How words fit together to convey meaning Word endings ing,-ed, -s Conjunctions and, because Pronouns I, she, you, he, it,my, her, their, Prepositions by, with, on, under, between ... Connectives –although, on the other hand ...

6. Meaning Knowledge of topic/field, cultural understandings & life experiences to make out what makes sense The aboriginal flag is red, yellow and ...... Persuasive Report Genre In summer it is hot, in winter it is .... Vocabulary

7. Read the following Lambragootsfaltruprewfalhepper. Ota namdobupquocksateripwuta gup sa flubbed jepo.

8. Text 1 Lambragootsfaltruprewfalhepper. Ota namdobupquocksateripwuta gup sa flubbed jepo. Not possible to predict Possible to recognise the letters and sounds for the words read ( Knowledge of sound system) No meaning Restricted to only using Visual strategies

9. Text 2 Lambragootsfal dog rewfal vet. Otonamdobupquocksa car wuta gup sa flubbed leg.

10. Text 2 Lambragootsfaldogrewfalvet. Ota namdobupquocksacarwuta gup sa flubbed leg. MeaningThrough life experiences can predict that something has happened to the dog’s leg. Prior knowledge of a vet and what he/she does. StructureMay predict that ‘sa’ and ‘fal’ may be ‘a’ and ‘the’ because of our understanding of word order and articles.Knowledge of reference - may predict that ‘leg’ refers back to the dog

11. Text 3 Peter took fal dog rewfal vet. He was hit quocksa car wuta had sa flubbed leg.

12. Text 3 Peter tookfaldogrewfalvet. Hewashitquocksacarwutahadsabrokenleg. Meaning- PredictionsThe dog was hit by a car. Peter owns the dog. The dog has a broken leg. Structure:Knowledge of past tense was hitKnowledge of prepositions predict that quockis by.

13. At Last Peter took the dog to the vet. He was hit by a car and had a broken leg. Lambragootsfaltruprewfalhepper. Ota namdobupquocksateripwuta gup sa flubbed jepo.

14. Visual GRAPHOPHONIC KNOWLEDGE Knowledge that sounds are represented by letters & clusters of letters Structure SYNTACTIC KNOWLEDGE Knowledge about the system of language e.g. word order, nouns, pronouns, tense, Meaning SEMANTIC KNOWLEDGE Knowledge of topic (field), cultural understandings & links to life experiences The 3 cueing systems Making Meaning Understanding what has been read (Taking it further) Reflecting, unpacking and evaluating . Meaning making occurs when all three cueing systems work together

15. As Fluent readers we make the process even more efficient: Many times the beginning letter (or letters) of the word is/are sampled. The reader looks at the beginning letter and puts a sound to the letter (graphophonics). Using this letter sound plus syntactic and semantic context clues can enable a reader to predict the word in print. The chren enjoy d eat g the ch c la e i e crea .

16. Can you read this? • Ilya Prigogine has demonstrated that when a “open system,” one which exchanges matter and/or energy with its environment has reached a state of maximum entropy, its molecules are in a state of equilibrium. Spontaneously, small fluctuations can increase in amplitude, bringing the system into a “far from equilibrium” state.

17. Reading is… A cycle of…….

18. Read and discuss: What cueing systems are you using? Are these cueing systems enough to gain meaning? The slorp named Bolnik glunked over the watler bezelst. It arlisted past the rinkmup and drodied over the fallman. It was the goliest slorp in the felmet. • What kind of bezelst did the slorp glunk over? • Where did the slorp arlist? • What is the name of the goliest slorp in the felmet?

19. Stages of Reading Development • Emergent Reader- preschool; “role play reading”; environmental print Learning to read: • Beginning Reader- understanding of the alphabet and the idea of reading the words (concepts of print) • Transitional Reader- recognizing and manipulating within word differences [sounding out/ sight words] • Intermediate Reader- Fluency and “problem-solving” about the meaning • Advanced Reader- Reading to learn

20. Visual Structure Meaning The 3 cueing systems Making Meaning Reading to Learn . Meaning making occurs when all three cueing systems work together

21. Before next week’s session… • As you read with your child this week, pay attention to the attempts your child makes, when trying to work out different words • See if you can identify these as Meaning/ Structural/ Visual strategies • If possible, write 3 or 4 examples down to bring along and share • We’ll meet after drop off to look at these and to go on with our next session at 9am: Session 3: “How can we help beginner readers? -Reading Strategies [1]”