Reception Parent Reading Workshop BSB November 6 th 2018

1. Reception Parent Reading WorkshopBSB November 6th 2018

2. The Power of Reading! • Creating a love of reading in children is potentially one of the most powerful ways of improving academic standards in school. • There can be few better ways to improve pupils chances in school, or beyond in the wider world than to enable them to become truly independent readers.

3. Reading • Success in reading is fundamental to success in school. • Reading is all about acquiring meaning; for enjoyment, information and understanding. • Reading creates a love of books – it builds imagination, creativity, language and pure enjoyment. • It is not a performance. • It is not a test. Every time you finish a book - do you always choose a harder one next time?

4. The Importance of Story Telling

5. Reading to your children • Introduce your children to different types of books; classic fiction, chapter books, short stories, joke books, poetry, non-fiction, books without words, recipe books etc. • Library books – read them to your child and enjoy them together. • Don’t force reading – it should be a pleasure. • Share books in your home language if it is not English. • Read slowly, with expression. Try to use different and funny voices for characters. • Let your child read the words they know and you read the words they don’t • Make some obvious mistakes … every child loves to be the teacher sometimes! • Let the children tell you the story – and even if it doesn’t match the book, it’s still about storytelling. • Follow the words and read the story using the pictures. • Talk about what is happening and what might happen next. Leave the story on a cliffhanger! • Allow choice – its not only boys who love reading about cars!

6. Reading at Home – Enjoy! • Make reading visible; have books available in your home • Share books every day • Boys need to see that reading is something men do • Talk about books • Sit and listen - don’t do chores around the reader! • Respect reading choices

7. Reading requires two skills Understanding The ability to understand the meaning of the words, sentences and ideas in a text. The ability to understand the ideas, information and themes in a text. If a child cannot understand what they hear, they will not be able to understand the same information when they read it. Phonics and Word Recognition The ability to recognise words presented in and out of context. The ability to blend letter sounds (phonemes) together to read words.

8. What are phonics? Cracking the English Language code • How many letters? • How many sounds (phonemes)? • How many spellings of the sounds? 26 44 144

9. Stretchy Sounds • f fffffff • n nnnn • m mmm • l llllllll • shshshsh • z zzzzz • r r r r r r r • s s s s s s s • v v v v v v v • th th th th • ng ng ng ng

10. Bouncy Sounds

11. Saying the sounds • Turn to your partner and say the sounds of the alphabet. • Cu a tu - what’s this word? • Video of the correct pronunciation of English letter soundshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwJx1NSineE

12. Blending and Segmenting Shar p sharp Blending for reading and Segmenting for spelling

13. High Frequency Words Tricky words cannot be sounded out! Children learn them by …… • 1) looking at the word shape • 2) playing games such as Splat, Snap, • 3) finding them in other books • 4) copying them in lots of different ways • 5) Sorting magnetic letters to copy them

14. Talking about books Remember … it is not a test! Do you like this book; why? Who is your favourite character? Tell me about a character in the book. Which words tell you what the character is like? How would you feel? What do you think will happen next? What would you do? What have you learned about …… in your book? What can you tell me about…?

15. Understanding(Comprehension) • Being able to read should mean you understand what the text means. • Your child might sound like a good reader but may not necessarily understand what the text means. • The best way to develop understanding is to talk about books, texts, stories …

16. Remember … • Learning to read is not a race! • Learning to read is not a competition! • Reading is a life –skill • Reading is an academic necessity • Reading is fun!

17. Questions,Questions, Questions! • Do you like this book? • Do you like this character? • It’s a good story isn’t it? • Do you like reading? • Are you good at reading? • Do you like this kind of story? It is so easy to answer these questions with yes or no! • What do you like about this book? • What do you think of this character? • Why do you think this is a good story? • What’s great about reading? • Why are you a good reader? • What is it about these stories that you like so much?

18. What to do if your child is stuck • Use phonics first. What sound does the word begin with? Can you say the sounds in the word? Blend them together. • Is this is tricky / high frequency word which is on the key ring? • Read to the end of the sentence. What would make sense? • What is the text about – what might fit here? • Does it sound right? • Look at the picture. Does it help? • If none of these help offer 2 or 3 possible words … and ask which makes the most sense?

19. How to use these strategies at home John let his pet frog go. It ******across the grass. What is the first sound? It h*****across the grass. What would make sense? It hoppingacross the grass. Does that sound right? It hopped across the grass.

20. Teaching Reading in School • Phonics Lessons • Shared reading • Guided reading • Focused reading activities • Reading across the curriculum • Cvc and high frequency words • School/Home reading books

21. Thank you for listening! We hope you feel better equipped to help your child learn to read; And perhaps ready to be a parent volunteer to help with reading in the classroom later on in the year …