1. Primary 1 / 2 Reading Evening
Lhanbryde Primary School

2. Plan for Evening Welcome and introductions
Presentation: How do children learn to read?
Leaflets – ort, jolly phonics, understanding reading, activities to help early reading skills
Three Group Workshops (20 mins each)
* Mrs Milligan-Reading lesson using ORT
* Mrs Milne- Reading Games
* Mrs Morris- Identifying reading difficulties and supporting these
Tea, coffee and questions with a chance to browse reading materials

3. To look at and understand, to say aloud written/ printed words.
What is reading?
To look at and understand, to say aloud written/ printed words.

4. Reading is one of the most important skills your child will learn in their early years at school.

5. Literacy and English Talking and listening
Recognising and writing letters and words
Asking questions
Feelings about text
Writing/drawing stories
Learning to read
Forming letters
Blending letters to make words

6. 5 basic skills for teaching reading and writing are:
Learning the letters sounds
Learning the letter formation
Blending
Identifying sounds in words
Spelling the tricky words
Although the skills are covered separately, they will all be taught at the same time in school

7. How do we teach these skills at school?
Jolly Phonics -method of teaching the letter sounds in a way that is fun and multi sensory. Children use the letter sounds to read words
ORT – The main reading scheme that we have in school to support children in P.1-3 with reading skills.
It includes fiction and non fiction books.
There are also books based on rhyme and poetry books.

8. Jolly Phonics Learning letter sounds
Teaches the 42 main sounds of English, not just the alphabet.
Sounds taught in 7 groups
Each sound has an action which helps children remember the letters
Letters are learned by their sound- not their name! This helps blending.
Sound books taken home
Puppets and songs

9. Pencil grip- tripod grip Correct formation is important – o, d, m
Learning letter formation
Pencil grip- tripod grip
Correct formation is important – o, d, m
Work sheets and home sheets
White boards, paper, laminated boards, in the air
Jolly phonics stories and dvd
Joined up writing – exit strokes- d. n

10. Blending letters together (process of saying individual sounds together in a word and then running them together to make the word)
d-o-g it is difficult to start but improves with practice
Some sounds are represented by 2 letters- digraphs ai so r-ai-n
St is not a digraph- can hear 2 sounds encourage this as one unit when sounding out fl- a g this encourages greater fluency
Tricky words- irregular spelling- said, was, one- and they are common words
Games, magnets, activity sheets

11. Identifying sounds in words
Listening for sounds in words
I spy- initial sound
Listen for end sounds
Listen for middle sounds- the hardest to hear
3 letter words to start
Tap sounds -3 taps 3 sounds h- o-t
careful with f-i-sh

12. Spelling- look, cover, write and check
Spelling tricky words
Look and say
Spelling- look, cover, write and check
Say it as it sounds- was- “wass as in mass” Monday- M-on-day
Mneumonics the initial word in saying gives spelling- Laugh At Ugly Goats Hair
Joined up writing will improve spelling

13. ORT reading scheme Try to find a quiet 10 mins every day
The more you read stories, the more confident your child will feel
Picture books-first words-patterned stories-sentences (may read all or some)
Praise and encouragement
Important to progress at their own pace
Each stage builds on and extends the reading skills and words
TV, games, and worksheets
Home- tv, magazine, M and S-workbooks and toys and read at home books.

14. Reading Comprehension (understanding in reading)
Predicting
Clarifying
Questioning
Summarising
Good readers will use these strategies all the time
Taught in school during reading group time
Improves understanding of what they are reading
Can be used at home

15. Predicting- before reading ask what they think the story is about-explain reasons. Predict at exciting points in the story
Clarifying-After reading- what words are they unsure of – can they work out what they mean.(picture clues, reading parts of story)
Questioning-Take turns to pose and answer questions-(fat and skinny)
Summarising – ask your child to summarise what they have read in a few sentences.

16. FINALLY READING IS FUN HAVE FUN TOGETHER
PLEASE ASK IF YOU NEED ANY ADVICE OR IDEAS