Read, Write, Inc

1. Read, Write, Inc 15.1.13

2. Speed sound chart • English language has 44 speech sounds • 5 vowel letters but 20 vowel sounds • F is spelt f, ff and ph • English has the most complicated code in the World • To make reading and writing easier for children, Read, Write, Inc phonics starts with a simple code so children learn one way to read and write each of the 44 speech sounds.

3. http://www.oup.com/oxed/primary/rwi/transformingprogrammes/ • It is important to ensure we are all using the pure sounds. This will help the children to acquire these skills quicker and without confusion. • Play –MTYT • Learning a new sound • Picture morphs into a sound. Picture helps them remember sound and how to write it

4. Fred Talk • Children need to be able to hear and blend before they can read • Need to be able to segment before they can spell. • Copy blending -> independently blending • Magnetic letters – push together words • Green words • Red words

5. Ditties • Read the speed sounds on front cover • Partners -1 copy of the Ditty and 1 pointing stick • Point, help, praise • Read red and green words • Work with partner to read the ditty 1 pointing other decoding • Read over and over 1st time decoding, 2nd for meaning and comprehension, 3rd story voice

6. Ditties • Re read the ditty and discuss the questions to talk about • Set the context • Build a sentence orally • Popcorn ideas • Hold a sentence • Fred fingers to spell the words • Demonstrate how to write the sentence, leaving finger spaces help with red words

7. Speech sounds chsh n p o h t i r m f s a c hot chips from the shop a can of pop from the shops hot chips and pop mmmmm

8. Storybooks • Need to know speed sounds before move onto the books • Review the sounds practise reading the words. • Introduce the story, emphasising new vocabulary so aware of all the words before asked to read them. • Read story 3 times • Writing – encoding activities, language comprehension activities to develop composition

9. Get Writing activities • Fred Rhythms • Fred fingers • Spelling check • Spelling test • Hold a sentence • Build a sentence • Edit for spelling and punctuation • Write a composition based on picture prompts • Write a guided composition

10. To build the bridge between reading and writing • Bubbles – feeling, saying, thinking, happening • Develop language, understanding, thinking around the story • Punctuation mimes (when reading to your child exaggerate the way you are reading to emphasise the punctuation point it out to them.)