Literacy Information Night for Parents:

1. Edgeworth Public School Literacy Information Night for Parents:

2. Please help yourself to tea, coffee and refreshments, toilets are in the office to your right. Tonight will be aimed at providing parents/carers with information and free resources to help improve their child’s understanding of literacy. Information will be presented by Craig Atkins, Jessica Garvey, Jackie Howard and TebaniWeibler.

3. ES1- Jessica GarveyS1- Jackie HowardS2- TebaniWeiblerS3- Craig Atkins All stages from K-6 will be covered:

4. Three Strands of English Talking and Listening Reading Writing http://k6.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/files/english/k6_english_syl.pdf

5. All students come to school with unique interests and talents

6. Questions? Any questions you have can be written on the post it notes and placed on the whiteboard. Throughout the evening we will answer each question.

7. Strategies for developing reading skills in Kindergarten children: Sounds Phonics Phonemic awareness Sight Words

8. Why is reading so important? “As a parent, you are your child's first and most important teacher. When you help your child learn to read, you are opening the door to a world of books and learning.” http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/document/brochure/earlyreading/index.html

9. Reading with Kindergarten children: Tip 2 – Make reading fun and exciting Tip 3 – Read to your child everyday. Tip 4 – Set an example- Discuss reading- read in front of your child Tip 5 – Talk about books- talk about the cover, pictures, why we read etc. Tip 6 – Listen to your child read Tip 7 – Show that you value your child's efforts and priase them for reading and having a go.

10. Reading is ongoing: Keep reading to your child even after he or she has learned to read. By reading stories that will interest your child but that are above his or her reading level, you can stretch your child's understanding and keep alive the magic of shared reading.

11. Making literacy fun! Utilise the computer and internet in an effective and engaging way!

12. Early Stage 1 and Stage 1 Online Games: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saF3-f0XWAY&feature=channel

13. TRIVIA TIME What is the average amount of words we can read in 1 minute???

14. Reading and Spelling: * Literacy and its integration within Human Society and its Environment.

15. Community Text: • Toy catalogues. • Cartoons from newspapers. • Food cartons and catalogues.

16. Let’s Play! • Spelling Bingo! • Noughts and Crosses! XOXOXOXO

17. Writing sentences: • Simple sentence- contains a subject and a verb, and it expresses a complete thought. Eg. Some students like to exercise in the mornings. • Compound sentence- contains two independent clauses joined by a conjunction. Eg. I tried to speak Spanish, and my friend tried to speak English.

18. Sentences continued • Complex sentence- Contain an ‘independent’ clause that combines with one or more ‘dependent’ clauses using a conjunction. Eg. The students are studying because they have a test tomorrow. • http://www.eslbee.com/sentences.htm

19. Grammar • Verbs • Nouns • Adjectives • Conjunctions Copacabana- Website and glossary.

20. Sentence building: Game!

21. Comprehension: Here, Hidden and Head Questions

23. Here Questions- ‘The answer is here’

24. Hidden Questions- answer by using clues in the text combined with knowledge you already have

25. Head Questions- answers can be found in your head by thinking about them

27. Stage 3 Talking and Listening – one of the 3 key components of Literacy and often the importance of this strand can be left behind. Think about this – you can’t actually write anything if you can’t say it or speak about it!! Activity – a good one for your listening skills and short term memories http://www.123listening.com/christmas.php

28. Talking &listening cont.. • Ideas & strategies • - making appointments over the phone, initiating and concluding the conversation, ordering food. • asking question in shops about products, • preparing mock programs e.g. Weather: use of technical language • mock job interviews.

29. Relating literacy to real life: • Newspapers • Magazines • Magazines that relate to students’ interests e.g. Sports, Movies etc.

30. Reading Ideas & Strategies - Sending and receiving emails, interpreting diagrams, graphs, charts, photos. - Read texts on a variety of topics – newspaper, magazines and white out words and get students to predict what words might go in there. - Read texts – you create here, hidden, head questions and vice versa. - Locating grammar in articles, books. Locate and highlight/write in different colours . - Advertisements: identifying the purpose and audience of that particular advertisement/text?

31. Reading cont… - Reading to you, what pace are they reading at? Are they pausing? Expression? What sort of text is it? Can you model the reading for them? - Dictionary and thesaurus use. Example – Weekender puzzle . - Analysing texts, consider events from each characters point of view e.g. Mind map - Do you travel a lot? Reading and understanding signs, assist with spelling strategies to spell names of places and incorporate mathematics – calculating distance. ACTIVITY – Look at the following image!!!

33. Writing Activity: Read and plan in 5 minutes. http://www.naplan.edu.au/tests/naplan_2010_tests__page.html

34. Writing cont… Writing Fun http://www.writingfun.com/ - Read a text, how can it be produced differently? Can you re-write it differently? - Writing emails to pen friends, friends, another family member. - Write the shopping list, read the items on grocery items. - Select a variety of images (one at a time) and students write a story about it e.g. Narrative - Dictate a text to them, get them to edit before publishing. Publish with a picture, clipart or a picture from the Internet. - Recognising the importance of correct punctuation in text e.g. job application.

35. Excellent Resources - Copacabana Get smart, interactive games and activities. http://www.copacabanap.schools.nsw.edu.au/Get_Smart.htm - Edublogs http://sportsman.edublogs.org/ - Parents!!!

36. BLOGGING!