Reading and Reading and phonics workshop

phonics workshopIvy Gardens Children’s Centre

What will we be doing?

0How children learn to read and what your role as a parent is in teaching reading.

0Games and activities to do with reading to help your child at home.

0Questions and activities to do with your child when reading a book together.

0Where children need to be a the end of Reception before starting Year 1.

Learning to read

0 ‘Look and say’ Working with the words over and over again until children just ‘know them’.

0Phonics Using the sounds of the alphabet to ‘sound out’ words.

0 Children learn in different ways and at different rates but it is important that they have exposure to lots of books and reading so their reading skills can develop.

Phonics0 How you can help your child…

Say the sounds correctly, don’t add any ‘errrrrrs’ on the end of sounds as this will confuse children when they start to put sounds together.

We teach ‘Jolly Phonics’, resources are available online or from Early Learning Centre.

http://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/Question/Index/3

Let’s have a go at saying the sounds together.

a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x z ch sh th ck ng ee igh oa oo ar or

Segmenting and Blending

0 Once children are confident with their sounds they can start to use them.

0Segmenting- breaking words up into sounds

0Blending- put sounds together to make words

0 CVC words…consonant/vowel/ consonant0 Cat

0 Mum0 Yes

Difficulties when reading0 Making a mistake- ‘let’s go back and have another look

at that’ Give them a choice, does that say ‘was’ or ‘saw’.0 Getting stuck- sound it out, given them some thinking

time but don’t be afraid to tell them the word!0 Children can sound out but still can’t read the word-

keep going, be patient!0 Reluctant readers- find a quiet time, find what they

love to read, Argos catalogue, books about tractors, reward them! Talk them all the time about how important reading is.

Reading with your child

To take home…Top Ten Reading Tips

Reading books

0 We want children to be leaving Reception being able to read at least a red book band book confidently.

0 Let’s look at some red books together and talk about how we can share this with our child

To take home…question prompts to use with your child and a reading book

To take home…

0 Word fans

Concentrate on a group of words each week, play ‘find me’.

Sound out words and talk about ones ‘you just need to know’.

Useful websites to use with your children at home

0http://www.spellanywhere.co.uk/spellings.php?view=1&id=261

0http://www.letters-and-sounds.com 0http://www.oxfordowl.co.uk 0http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/ 0http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/alphablocks/0Free apps for phones, apps for IPads https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/twinkl-phonics-suite-all-you/id508771799?mt=8 0www.twinkl.co.uk

Any questions about reading?