1. Primary 1 Curriculum Workshop:Language
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2. Primary 1 Language
Reading
Writing
Talking
Listening
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3. INTERDICIPLINARY CONTEXTS
TERM 1
Road Safety
TERM 2
The Seasons
TERM 3
Ourselves
TERM 4
People Who Help Us In School
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4. Early Language Skills
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5. What helps Reading? Awareness of rhyme
Being able to first identify & then recognise letters
Others at home modelling reading
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6. Concepts of Print Back, front, picture, page, cover
Recognition of letters upper and lower case
Rhyme, alliteration
Letter, space, word, sentence, punctuation
Left -> right, top -> bottom
Knowing what they read, the difference
between text and pictures
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7. Our Approach to Reading
Not just one method but a range of strategies
Look and Say
Phonics
Reading for Meaning
Why?
All children are different and have different learning styles
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8. Phonics
Blending ca t
Onset and rime c at
Synthetic phonics
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9. Reading Homework Later
Reading Homework Now
Match words and letters
Build words using letters
Build a sentence using words
Copy letters, words and sentences
Look for words/letters in the environment
Reading Homework Later
Learn new words, revisit old ones
Paired Reading
Ask both literal and inferential questions
Ask child to sequence story, predict, retell
Link what they have read to what they already know
Apply what they know about sounds and words to writing
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10. What is Paired Reading?
Promotes reading skills, self confidence and enjoyment of books
Sharing a book – 4 stages
Parent reads
Parent and child read together adult taking the lead
Parent and child read together - child encouraged to take the lead
Child reads
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11. A time of day, day of the week, date etc
QUESTION WORD?
ANSWER
Who
A person, a name
When
A time of day, day of the week, date etc
Where
A place
Which
The reader usually has to choose from a selection
What
Depends on how the question is worded, but usually a thing
How
An explanation
How many
A number
How..big, far, tall etc
Also involve an explanation
Why
A reason (very often using because)
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12. Reading doesn’t have to look like this.
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13. All Reading is Valuable
Alone
Being read to
Reading to an adult/other child
Research/ instructions
Newspapers/ comics
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14. Listening Skills Good eye contact, sitting still, nodding, responding
Hear small differences (p & b)
Recite rhymes and poems from memory
Listen for information, instructions and
directions
Retell simple stories, instructions, correctly
sequenced
Take a turn
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15. Talking Skills Ask for help Ask/answer questions
Give simple definitions
Express thoughts and feelings
Be able to use new words and phrases to express, ideas, thoughts and feelings
Speak clearly and audibly
Be aware of their audience
Convey information, instructions and directions
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16. Pre Writing
Child needs to develop muscle tone and control in fingers and hands
Construction toys like, Duplo, Lego, Mecanno
Play Dough, plasticine
Jigsaws
Threading beads, tying laces, zips, buttons
Cutting, gluing, sticking, painting, scribbling,
colouring in, tracing, dot to dot
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17. Writing Pencil hold Letter formation Experiment with writing
Write own name
Understand we use writing to communicate
Copy a letter, word, sentence
Compose a sentence
Think and talk about writing before starting
WEBSITES: english alphabet
sky writing
sebran
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