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Discover effective strategies to enhance primary level language skills including reading, writing, talking, and listening. Explore various methods such as phonics and paired reading to support different learners. Encourage children through engaging reading and writing tasks. Develop pre-writing skills through fun activities.
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Primary 1 Language • Reading • Writing • Talking • Listening
What helps Reading? • Awareness of rhyme • Being able to first identify & then recognise letters • Others at home modelling reading
Concepts of Print • Back, front, picture, page, cover • Recognition of letters upper and lower case • Rhyme, alliteration • Letter, space, word, sentence, punctuation • Left -> right, top -> bottom • Knowing what they read, the difference between text and pictures
Our Approach to Reading Not just one method but a range of strategies • Look and Say • Phonics • Reading for Meaning Why? All children are different and have different learning styles
Phonics Blending ca t Onset and rime c at Synthetic phonics
Reading Homework Now • Match words and letters • Build words using letters • Build a sentence using words • Copy letters, words and sentences • Look for words/letters in the environment Reading Homework Later • Learn new words, revisit old ones • Paired Reading • Ask both literal and inferential questions • Ask child to sequence story, predict, retell • Link what they have read to what they already know • Apply what they know about sounds and words to writing
What is Paired Reading? Promotes reading skills, self confidence and enjoyment of books Sharing a book – 4 stages • Parent reads • Parent and child read together - adult taking the lead • Parent and child read together - child encouraged to take the lead • Child reads
All Reading is Valuable Alone Being read to Reading to an adult/other child Research/ instructions Newspapers/ comics
Listening Skills • Good eye contact, sitting still, nodding, responding • Hear small differences (p & b) • Recite rhymes and poems from memory • Listen for information, instructions and directions • Retell simple stories, instructions, correctly sequenced • Take a turn
Talking Skills • Ask for help • Ask/answer questions • Give simple definitions • Express thoughts and feelings • Be able to use new words and phrases to express, ideas, thoughts and feelings • Speak clearly and audibly • Be aware of their audience • Convey information, instructions and directions
Pre Writing Child needs to develop muscle tone and control in fingers and hands • Construction toys like, Duplo, Lego, Mecanno • Play Dough, plasticine • Jigsaws • Threading beads, tying laces, zips, buttons • Cutting, gluing, sticking, painting, scribbling, colouring in, tracing, dot to dot
Writing • Pencil hold • Letter formation • Experiment with writing • Write own name • Understand we use writing to communicate • Copy a letter, word, sentence • Compose a sentence • Think and talk about writing before starting WEBSITES: english alphabet sky writing sebran