Welcome to our Developing Early

Reading Afternoon

Aims of the afternoon

• To explain the content of the reading book bag

• To look at how we teach reading • To explore ideas to support early

reading at home.

Reading Book Bag

• Reading diary – to record your child’s progress

• Reading book

• Word box

• Tricky word key rings.

Reading Books We start with a mixture of individual and guided reading, once a week, where individuals or groups of 3 or 4 children read the same book with the teacher. This enables the children to share their observations, discuss their views and it also reinforces their enjoyment of stories! The structure of a book is explained, e.g., the book cover, front & back, title, author, illustrator and how we read from left to right. The children also learn how to treat books with care and

respect.

We encourage children to talk about what is happening in the picture, how or why it is happening and predict what might happen next. Developing their descriptive language is very important at this stage. Books with out words are fantastic for encouraging children to do this.

Please do not cover the pictures!!

As parents you play a major role in encouraging your child to read. Building on their initial observations to enhance their story telling as much as possible and helping them develop their language will go a long way in ensuring your child becomes a confident and happy reader.

Reading Books

Word Boxes

Every day your child will bring home their reading book bag and within this should be a strip of decodeable words. Which we call word boxes. The purpose of these words is to help your child practise the skill of segmenting and blending sounds together to read words. Blending sounds together is another key reading skill that will help your child decode words. However it is important to remember that it is just one reading strategy.

Segmenting and Blending

• Segmenting and blending are reversible skills. • Segmenting is breaking words into units of sounds

• Blending is building words using the sounds

cat Each week your child will practise these words and if

they are able to read them will be given a new set of words to practise.

in tap

at sat

Any Questions?

Phonics

• Phonics is really important for reading and writing • Phonics is fast paced, but children regularly revisit

learnt sounds and words • Phonics lesson is in 4 parts

Revisit – fast recap on learnt sounds Teach – new sound Practise – children practise using this sound

through a number of games and activities Apply – children apply this new sound learnt

We use a mixture of programmes and

resources to teach phonics:

Letters and Sounds

And

Jolly Phonics

Phonics

Phase 2

Sparklebox Twinkl

Phase 3

Digraph = a sound made with two letters eg. sh ai oi

Tricky Word Keyrings

In your child's reading book bag will also be a set of words on keyrings.

These words are called ‘tricky words’ as they are words that cannot be

sounded out and have to be learnt by sight.

Again each week your child will practise these words and if they are able to read them will be given a new Keyring to practise. Make it fun! – play games such as matching pairs or tricky word hunts!

A New Vocabulary • Phoneme = the smallest unit of sound in a word e.g. /c /a /t/ in cat. Or /d/ow/n/ in down. • Grapheme = letter shape that represents a sound. • Tricky words = words that cannot be decoded using

phonics

• cvc - c = consonant (b/c/d/f), v = vowel (a/e/ee) • Digraph = a sound made with two letters eg. sh ai oi

Any Questions?