Foundation Stage Teaching Reading, writing &
Jan 02, 2016
Introduction
How we teach reading at school How you can help your child to read at home Homework Phonics Writing
Teaching children to read
Our aims Teaching reading at school Supporting with reading outside of school
Our Aim
To give children the best start possible to become accomplished readers by developing a skill for life with confidence and enjoyment.
Research
Reading outside lessons was linked to strong academic achievement.
Young people who read outside class on a daily basis were 13 times more likely to read above the expected level for their age.
BBC – National Literacy Trust Sept 2012
Shared Reading
Guided Reading
Personal Reading
Daily Phonics
Individual reading
Use of Technology
Cross Curricular
Listening/reading Corner
Word games
Puzzles
Learning environment
Activities in school
Enjoy It!Make reading an enjoyable experience. Give your child lots of praise and reward for their reading. Have fun looking at the pictures and relating the story to the children’s own life and experiences.
Make Time!Choose a good time when you and your child can be together. Try to make sure you are not disturbed and avoid distractions such as the T.V. Let your child hold their
book themselves. This helps them to learn which way up the book should go and where the beginning is. They will also learn to hold their book and turn the pages carefully.
There is more to being a good reader than just being able to read the words accurately.
What happened?Talk to your child about the book; about the pictures, the characters, how they think the story will end, their favourite part. This will show you that they have understood the story.
Express yourself!If your child is reading the words accurately encourage them to add expression to their reading. You do it first, then ask your child to have a go. You could also search for punctuation in the text e.g. ?, !, and discuss what these mean.
Practice, Practice, Practice!Regular practice will make all the difference to your child’s reading. Spending a little time reading each day and filling in your child’s reading diary will help to build their confidence and pride in what they are achieving.
You can support your child at home by:1. Getting them to open the book by themselves 2. Locating the author, title and start of the story 3. Discussing the front cover, predict story 4. Finding words on a page that they know and can read 5. Reading the story with them or to them 6. Asking questions about what they have read or heard 7. Encouraging them to join in with parts they know8. Asking them to tell the story from the pictures 9. Trying to sound out unfamiliar words 10. Leaving a word out that they don’t know and read the sentence
again, guessing what it could be 11. Retelling the story in their own words 12. Talk about the characters or the setting
Reading activities at home
You can support your child at home by:13. Re-reading for accuracy and identify own mistakes
14. Using language features – speech marks, exclamation marks etc
15. Sharing their own reading material – comics, information books, packets, newspapers, cookery books etc
16. Discussing new vocabulary and what it means 17. Comparing stories, discussing which was their favourite18. Visiting the school or local library19. Tricky words20. Find sounds they know in the text
Reading activities at home
Homework
Why? An essential part of good education Develop the skill of independent learning Enable pupils to make maximum progress Promote cooperation between home & school Provide educational experiences not possible in school Consolidate and reinforce learning in school Practice skills taught in school Develop good work habits for the future Keep parents informed about their child’s learning
Synthetic phonics
“An approach to the teaching of reading in which the sounds (phonemes) associated with particular letters (graphemes)”.
Developed by Ruth Miskin All children will learn to read and write
quickly and easily Widely used and tested and has been hugely
successful in many schools All of our staff have been trained in this
system
Terms you may hear
Phoneme – the sound you make Grapheme- one letter or one group of letters
used to write one sound‘f’ can be written with the grapheme f(fun) or ff (huff)
‘igh’ can be written with the grapheme igh(night) or i(knife) or ie(tie)
Blending- how sounds are blended to create the word
Speed sounds
Set 1 m a s d t I n p g o c k u b f e l h sh r j v
y w th z ch q x ng nkSet 2Ay ee igh ow oo oo ar or air ir ou oy
Oxford Owl website
Complex speed sounds-one sound-many graphemes
a-e ea i-e o-e u-e aw are ur er ow ai oa ew ire ear ure tious tion
How do we teach the children?
Sound-letter pictures lively mnemonicsBlending and segmentingApplying phonic knowledge to
reading books at child’s own level
Fred Talk
Fred is a puppet who says, reads and spells words in pure sounds; he never says the whole word so the children do this for him. He never adds ’uh’ after a consonant sound e.g. fuh luh muh
Red Words – word recognition
Learn when introduced in ditty or storybook. These words contain graphemes thata re not on the chart. The grey letters are the ‘grotty’ graphemes.
I the you your said
Blending
Assisted blending-Fred puppet Blending with cards-chart Blending with magnetic letters-individual
boards with magnetic letters Independent blending-Fred fingers Independent spelling-Fred fingers
Activities to develop fine motor skills
Using pincers Using pegs Manipulating play dough Picking up small objects & putting in a bottle Lego
Cursive Handwriting Script
AIM: That all children develop a legible, fluent and fast handwriting style.
Letters are produced in a flowing movement, which helps the development of a physical memory of how each letter is written.
Promotes hand eye coordination, motor skills & brain function. Letters all start in the same place and flow from left to right, which
reduces the likelihood of reversal mix-ups such as b/d and p/q. Because of the smooth flow, writing soon becomes quicker and easier. A cursive style of handwriting is recommended by the
British Dyslexia Association. Eventually it becomes neater than script