1. Helping Your Child to Read

2. Agenda
Welcome
Ice Breaker
Learning to Read
Sharing Rhymes
Sharing Books
Repetition
What Should I Do?
Making Sense of Sounds
More Advanced Readers
Where Can I Find Out More Information?

3. Ice Breaker
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4. Reading Writing a shopping list
Write a list of items to pack in their suitcase
Re-tell favourite stories
Re-tell events in correct order
Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening are all connected

5. Rhyming
Learn and sing nursery rhymes together, this will help your child to notice the separate sounds in words
Play rhyming games and make up silly rhymes

6. Sharing Books The First Step to Reading (Pre – School)
Choose a quiet place – so there are no distractions from TV and radio
Choose a book which you like the look of and which you’ll enjoy reading
A book which you find boring will also bore your child
Follow the words with your finger. You are not teaching your child the mechanics of reading but they will begin to understand that those black squiggly things are important because they are telling the story.

7. Starting the Journey Read aloud to your child Read poems together
Point to the words on the page, move your finger left to right
Listen to your child read every day 5 mins
Be a positive reading role model for your child
Read stories that have repetitive phrase such as the 3 little pigs

8. Making Sense of Sounds
We teach sounds / phonics discretely using the Jolly Phonics format using actions and singing to support our teaching
But we follow the letters and sounds programme. (Synthetic Phonics)
Phase 1, 2 and 3 and application in Phase 4
Digraphs and Trigraphs
Segmenting words, rather than sounding out with single sounds, sound buttons

9. Handwriting Saint Joseph’s Handwriting format
Teach cursive script straight away
Warm up exercises, fine motor skills – finger jobs
Writing in different mediums, rice, sand, paint, foam, flour and water
Big writing - progress to small writing
Say what your doing… Always start on the line and go up. Trickiest is the anti-clockwise movements!

10. Leaving Reception Expectations
Preparing for Year One
Leaving Reception Expectations
To read high frequency words for Reception.
Most children in Surrey will be ‘Expected’ but children cannot be assessed as Expected in Reading if they are not there in S&L.
Most children should be able to understand the elements of stories such as main character and read a range of familiar words and simple sentences independently. They will also be able to use a non-fiction book.
Some children will be able to read books of own choice with some fluency and accuracy.

11. Something to Think About…
Regular doses of fish oils dramatically boosted young children's performance at school. Nearly three quarters of the youngsters - who were of mixed academic ability – the children showed improvements in numeracy, reading and writing after taking fish oil supplements for nine months.
A Study Funded by Boots Pharmacy

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