1. Reading Don’t just teach your kids to read, teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything!- George Carlin

2. Research shows that reading to a young child is the single most important thing you can do to help your child’s education.

3. Decoding and blending (phonics) Comprehension
Elements of reading
Enjoyment
Decoding and blending (phonics)
Comprehension
Enjoyment, enjoyment, enjoyment!

5. As parents and carers, you are your child’s first teachers
As parents and carers, you are your child’s first teachers. You have a powerful influence on your child’s early learning.

6. What is phonics?
Phonics is a way of teaching children to read quickly and skilfully. They are taught how to:
 recognise the sounds that each individual letter makes;
 identify the sounds that different combinations of letters make
- such as ‘sh’ or ‘oo’; and
 blend these sounds together from left to right to make a word.
Children can then use this knowledge to ‘de-code’ new words that they hear or see.
This is the first important step in learning to read.

7. Helping your child with phonics
Phonics works best when children are given plenty of encouragement and learn to enjoy reading and books. Parents play a very important part in helping with this.
Some simple steps to help your child learn to read through phonics:
 Younger children separate each individual sound, then blend together –Robot Arms.
As they progress through the phases highlight the sounds in their spellings when you read with your child.
Write a word onto a piece of paper and put sound buttons underneath the letters / line under the group of letters with one sound. Model sounding out and blending – make it funny.
Encourage your child to ‘sound out’ unfamiliar words and then blend the sounds together from left to right rather than looking at the pictures to guess (although looking at the pictures is not cheating!!)
Once your child has read an unfamiliar word you can talk about what it means and help him or her to follow the story.
We have a phonics booklet for parents that show examples of phased sounds to learn.

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9. Spelling helps reading …
Better
KS2
For Better

10. Spelling helps reading …
Spelling is particularly important in reading.
But many children struggle to learn the spelling of words.
They find it difficult to retain spelling (long term memory).
Consequently their reading development can be hindered.
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11. Spelling helps reading … How would you learn to spell a word?

12. Spelling helps reading …
How would you learn to spell…
Just for a couple of minutes with the person next to you,
think about ways in which you could remember how to spell fluorescent
not just for now or for tomorrow but for always.
fluorescent

13. Spelling helps reading …
Memorise it?
Break it down? fluor es cent
Think of associations?
You might…
flour e scent
fluor e scent
fluorescent
Like a perfume scent
Like flour, the baking kind but reverse the ‘ou’

14. Spelling helps reading …
Why is it so important?

15. Spelling helps reading …
It makes the reader SLOW down:
To focus on letter combinations that make up words.
Often too quick not processing the entire word or letter combinations.
Often focus on initial letters to make a guess at the word.
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16. Spelling helps reading …
Spelling stops guessing based on context:
Young/struggling readers often use context.
Use picture in book to figure out the word.
Older readers may use the context of the story.
Not necessarily stopping to study the word.
Best guess based on context rather than letter combinations that create the word.
sk….ateboard
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17. Spelling helps reading …
Helps see how words are connected:
Not random words, but words that highlight the patterns in words.
Focus on how words are connected and related.
High frequency words.
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18. Spelling helps reading …
It helps fluent reading:
Ability to recognise words quickly and easily.
Understanding of logic and patterns.
How these patterns apply to other words.
Helps to recognise words automatically.
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19. Spelling helps reading …
It aids with comprehension of text:
‘Decoding’ skills = read more words accurately.
Less time spent struggling with words.
Focus on understanding the text.
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20. Spelling helps reading …
Spelling Strategies:
“The keys to supporting our
pupils to become confident
spellers lie in teaching the strategies, rules and conventions systematically and explicitly, and helping pupils recognise which strategies they can use to improve their own spelling.”
The National Strategies | Primary 2009

21. Spelling helps reading …
Spelling Strategies:
Focus on how words are connected and related.
Spelling - NOT just a ‘memory test’ on the day.
Strategies that embed spelling!
So what strategies can help to embed spelling?

22. Spelling helps reading …
Spelling strategies:
Look Say Cover

23. Spelling helps reading …
Memory tricks:
common letter patterns

24. Spelling helps reading …
Memory tricks:
common letter patterns
using syllable breakdown

25. Spelling helps reading …
Memory tricks:
Hear with your ear.
Hear with your ear
and learn.
common letter patterns
using syllable breakdown
seeing words within words

26. Spelling helps reading …
Memory tricks:
common letter patterns
using syllable breakdown
seeing words within words
using mnemonics

27. Spelling helps reading …
How can you help?

28. Support with Spelling Spelling homework:
not learning for a test & forgotten
embedded learning
not just random words
learning focus on words we are using in class, for example:
high frequency words
words that sound the same but have different meanings

29. Support with Spelling Practice at home:
at breakfast / in the bath / bed time
on the way to the shops / school
explain what the words mean
reinforce structure, ‘tion’
use the words in sentences
Practice memory tricks

30. Support with Spelling Hands-on & practice for your child:
copy the words
make it fun / make it creative
make the words – scrabble tiles
display the words - post it notes
encourage use of words in sentences
encourage use of memory tricks
encourage understanding of difference / use

31. Support for Spelling
Practical Hands-on
Creative
Engaging
Learning
Fun

32. Web Support for Spelling
There are many on-line resources to help with spelling.
Search for fun interactive sites such as .....
This site covers all KS1 and KS2 subject areas and by clicking through the links your child will be guided to fun interactive spelling activities.

33. Support for Spelling
KS1

34. Support for Spelling
KS2

35. Apps Support for Spelling Search for spelling apps for:
iphone / ipad / Android
Some are free and others cost a few pounds for example…
Spelling Ninjas has a free ‘Lite’ version and a full version for £2.99.

36. Apps Support for Spelling Appeal to ‘technology’ kids
Fun and interactive
Learning feedback
Progress encouragement
Progressive age related learning

37. Books Support for Spelling
Search for books in high-street bookstores or on-line.
They present spelling in a graphical workbook which you can support your child in completing.

38. Spelling helps reading …
Your support
in better…
will help better…

39. Ten Top Tips for Busy Mums, Dads and Carers
Focus on what you can do, not what you can’t.
Find the right level.
Make regular time together.
Take time to listen, listen, listen.
Strike a balance between perfection and connection.
Talk about what you’ve read.
Enjoy reading everywhere.
Ask for extra help if you think your child needs it.
Think outside the book!
HAVE FUN.

40. Try to make time to read with your child every day
Try to make time to read with your child every day. Grandparents and older brothers or sisters can help, too. Encourage your child to blend the sounds all the way through a word.
 Our ‘book bags’ and reading records are a great way for teachers and parents to communicate about what children have read.
The reading record can tell you whether your child has enjoyed a
particular book and shows problems or successes he or she has had,
either at home or at school.

41. Encouraging older children to read
As children get older, there's no need to stop enjoying sharing books and reading together
Research has shown that children who enjoy reading and spend more time reading for pleasure have better reading and writing skills, a broader vocabulary, and even an increased general knowledge and understanding of other cultures.
But with so many other activities competing for children’s time as they get older, how can you continue to encourage your child to read for pleasure?

42. Here are some tips for encouraging reading in your home with older children:
Ensure that your children see you reading. It doesn't matter if it's the newspaper, a cookery book, a romantic novel, a detective mystery, short stories, a computer manual, Kindle, a magazine... anything!
Encourage children to join in - ask a child to read out a recipe for you as you cook, or the TV listings when you are watching TV
Give, and encourage others to give, books or book tokens as presents
Visit the local library together on a regular basis and enjoy spending time choosing new books
Encourage children to carry a book at all times so they can read on journeys or in spare moments – you can do this too!
Keep reading together. There are lots of books that both adults and young people can enjoy. Try The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon, the Harry Potter series, or The Life of Pi by Yann Martel.
Read books you can all talk about but make the talk light-hearted, not testing or over-questioning

43. Go to libraries or bookshops when authors are visiting
Go to libraries or bookshops when authors are visiting. Children and teenagers love meeting their favourite writers - Jacqueline Wilson and Anthony Horowitz always have signing queues that are miles long!
Make sure your home is a reading home - have a family bookshelf and make sure there are shelves in your children's bedrooms as well.
Don't panic if your child reads the same book over and over again - be honest, we've probably all done it!
Encourage your children and their friends to swap books with each other - this will encourage them to talk and think about the books they are reading.