Launch into Reading!

Teach a child to read and keep that child reading [and talking] and we will change everything.

Aims of today

•To introduce our new home reading system

•To give you an insight into how we teach children to read

•To support with learning at home

Our reading aims…

•To promote a love of reading

•To offer a language rich

environment and develop vocabulary

•To teach high quality phonics

Reading progression from nursery to year 2End of nursery End of reception End of year 1 End of year 2

Have favourite stories, rhymes and songs.Describe main story settings, events and characters.Shows an interest in illustrations and print in books and the environment.Enjoys an increasing range of books.

Read and understand simple sentences.

Read fluently, listenand respondcritically to texts of all kinds.Share preferences fortypes of texts.

PHONIC SCREENING CHECK

Read a full range of texts thatrequire inferential and comprehension skillsas well as an emergingunderstanding of how language is used for effect.

KEY STAGE 1 SATS

Our ultimatereading aim…

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Promoting a love of reading from nursery…

Exciting props, small world trays, developing

language etc

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To fluent, confident and expressive reading in year 2…

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Developing vocabulary• Clambered• Wailed• Bog• Eagerly• Firmly• Grinned • Shriek• Glee

Teaching high quality phonics

• Daily Read Write Inc sessions from Reception and year 1 children

• Nursery children begin in the summer term before they go full time

• Year 2 children that are continuing to work towards the phonic screening check also have daily RWI sessions

• Sessions vary from 20 minutes to 1 hour depending on age/stage

• Additional 1:1 sessions for some children

Key features…

• Fred the frog – teaches oral blending and segmenting

• Fred Talk for reading

• Fred in your head

• Fred Fingers for spelling

Key features…

• Handwriting

• Stories about the letter

• Memorable phrases

Daily repetitive lesson structure…

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New home reading system - practicing and applying phonic skills

• Almost £3000 worth of books

• Fully decodable books

• Matches sounds and words taught in daily RWI sessions

• Key info for parents and example questions

• Read, read and read again!

• Celebrate successes ☺

New home reading system• Class teachers/RWI group leaders will change

books weekly to coincide with phonic sessions (every 5th day)

• Each class will have their own library day where they bring home a beautiful book to share with you

• Year 2 children who are not having daily RWI lessons will continue on our current home reading system

• Book bags must be brought to school daily in order for a successful home reading system

• Care for our books – books will need replacing if lost/damaged

New home reading system- promoting that love for reading

• Beautiful Books!

• Read to your child – model a love for books, fluency, expression etc

• Quality story time together

• Develop new vocabulary

• Build up comprehension

• We are improving the quality of books in our library

Comprehension skills

Comprehension is the reason for reading!

Ask lots and lots of questions!

What is that

character

thinking?

What is the

character

saying?

What do you

think that character is

feeling now?

What is happening?

What do you think happens next?

Comprehension skills

In 2005, a team of scientists unearthed thousands of dodo bones in some mud flats in Mauritius. The remains date back to over 4,000 years ago, when the island was suffering from a lengthy drought. The mud flats would have formed a freshwater oasis in an otherwise parched environment. It is thought that most of the animals, while trying to reach the slowly receding waters of the lake, became stuck and died of thirst or suffocation. However, clearly some dodos survived as they did not become extinct until much later.

You can best support your child’s reading by…

• Talking to them – easiest way!

• Talk about the illustrations in books –encourage your child to make up their own stories from pictures

• Encourage the understanding and use of new vocabulary – learn through exciting books

• Sing songs, rhymes and read poems, enjoying the rhyme and rhythm of words

• Read to your child regularly and develop their story language – ‘bedtime’ stories as often as possible!

• Support our home reading system

Any questions or comments?