1. How do children learn to read?
Cracking the code

2. Key Skills: What is a book? Picture reading Phonics Blending Decoding
Tricky words
Comprehension and understanding

3. Picture reading elephant giraffe Water hole
The elephant and giraffe are drinking at the waterhole.

4. Phonics

5. Consonant and vowel digraphs

6. Blending g a r d e n c a t sh i p

7. Decoding pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis ultra
a word that refers to a lung disease contracted from the inhalation of very fine silica particles, specifically from a volcano; medically, it is the same as silicosis.

8. Tricky Words where whair the thi I ie ball school skool bol
Can’t be decoded phonetically
where
whair
the
thi I ie
ball
school
skool
bol

9. Lets put all these skills together to read a piece of text…..

10. Baa, baa, Black Sheep.
Baa, baa, black sheep,
Have you any wool?
Yes sir, yes sir,
Three bags full.
One for the master,
One for the dame and
One for the little boy
who lives down the lane.