1. Reception Reading and Handwriting Meeting 2017-18

2. Areas of Learning:
Personal, Social and Emotional development.
Communication and Language
Physical Development
Literacy
Mathematics
Understanding the World
Expressive Arts and Design

3. Communication and Language
This area of learning is broken into 3 strands:
- Listening and Attention
- Understanding
- Speaking

4. Literacy
This area is broken down into two strands:
Reading
Writing

5. Pre - reading skills Developing language skills
Taking turns in conversation.
Learning to listen.
Enjoy looking at books and telling stories.
Retelling stories, putting events in the correct order.
Tell the story from the pictures.
Focus on details and notice similarities and differences.

6. Your children are already readers!
Print is all around us!

7. Learning to read is fun!

8. Learning through games and puzzles

9. Each letter has a ‘sound’
Playing Alphabet Bingo

10. Magnetic Letters

11. Having fun and becoming part of the story
Who’s that crossing my bridge?
Role play

12. Sharing the story together

13. Listening to story tapes

14. Sharing a story with a willing audience!

15. Following the story through the pictures
Following the story through the pictures. Making predictions and discussing the characters.

16. Understanding the printed word.
Words name things, they tell us stories, or give us information.
Beginner readers need to recognise the difference between pictures and words on a page.
Beginner readers need to learn that the print on the page actually means something.

17. We follow a programme called
Learning Phonics
We follow a programme called
‘Letters and Sounds’

18. Phonics
Follow DFES letters and sounds programme
Use Jolly Phonics songs to support
4 whole class lessons per week
Small group phonic based activities in other areas

19. Letters and Sounds Programme
Nursery - Phase 1: Auditory discriminations, music making, nursery rhymes
Reception - Phase 2, 3 and 4
Year 1 – (Revisit Phase 4) Year 1 Phonics
Year 2 – Year 2 Phonics

20. Phase 2
Introduce 4 sounds per week (phonemes)
Articulation is vital!
Tricky words
Model letter formation
Fun interactive sessions!

21. Blending to read
s a t

22. 2 letters 1 sound
chip

23. Segmenting to spell

25. Even in their outdoor play!
Children need lots of opportunities to practise these letters and words!
Even in their outdoor play!

26. Using fun computer programmes

27. Having fun in the sand! Using different types of resources to make words
Wooden letters in the sand

28. Time to develop a love and enjoyment of reading.

29. Reading Homework
Your child will read in a group twice each week in school. Please ensure your child has their reading book and reading record in their bag every day. Please add a comment in your child’s reading record every time you hear them read. Please listen to your child read every night.

30. Learning to read is a very complex process, that takes a long time to master

32. Any questions?

33. Handwriting

34. Early Years Curriculum Physical Development 40-60 Months
-Begins to use anticlockwise movement and retrace vertical lines. - Uses a pencil and holds it effectively to form recognisable letters, most of which are correctly formed.

35. Early Learning Goal: Physical Development Moving and Handling
Children show good control and co‑ordination in large and small movements. They move confidently in a range of ways, safely negotiating space. They handle equipment and tools effectively, including pencils for writing.

36. Expected Standard at the end of Key Stage 1 (Year 2)
- Use the diagonal and horizontal strokes needed to join letters in some of their writing - Writing capital letters and digits of the correct size, orientation and relationship to one another and to lower-case letters - Using spacing between words that reflects the size of the letters.

37. Working Towards the Expected Standard at the end of Key Stage 2 (Year 6)
- producing legible joined handwriting maintaining legibility, fluency and speed in handwriting joining some letters

38. Establishing effective pencil grip is vital for developing confident writers - all of our children are different stages on that journey.

39. In class we have lots of different ongoing activities to support fine motor development

42. Letters are grouped in letter families and follow a pattern
How each letter is formed is important rather than just the finished product.

44. Fun activities to support letter formation

48. Top Tips…..
Do….
Praise as much as possible
Concentrate on one letter/ letter family at a time
Provide lots of fun activities to support formation
Don’t….
Tell them it is ‘wrong’
Constantly rub out work
Get stressed!

49. Try to encourage as many opportunities for writing as possible
shopping lists
Birthday cards
Thank you cards
Letters to grandparents
Postcards
Instructions
When writing independently the children will not spell everything correctly – they have not been taught all the sounds in words yet. It is better to let them try to hear and write the sounds they can hear than to spell it out for them!

50. Please share your home learning with us in school – we love it
Send in your child’s work
Take a photo and tweet
us at

51. Happy Writing!