1. Parent’s Workshop 1 Supporting Learning at Home August 2019

2. Aims
By the end of today you will have developed an an an understanding of what your child is experiencing in school.
Have a greater understanding of phonics development.
To further explore the importance of your role in your child’s learning.

3. Multi-sensory Approach
Where Are We Now?
Settling into routine
Jolly Phonics provides a systematic method for teaching children to read and write.
Children will learn 2 sounds per week
How does learning look in the classroom?
Multi-sensory Approach

4. Overarching Aims Learning the letter sounds.
Learning letter formation and correct pencil grip.
Blending.
Identifying sounds within words.
Tricky words.

5. What Does Learning Look Like?
Story and image.
Song or jingle.
Letter formation.
Identifying sounds in words.
Action.
Multi-sensory Approach

6. Next Steps 44 sounds and only 26 letters
Children are now learning initial sounds following our school progression.
Will progress quickly through initial sounds to digraphs.

7. Impact Phonetical awareness is vital in developing reading skills
Independent writing is near impossible without the ability to build words, decode words and blend sounds.
Children will not develop the ability to spell without a sound understanding of phonics.

8. Homework
Sound Books
Blending Books
Tricky Word Walls
Sound Sheets
Reading Books
(signed, returned and follow up work)

9. Look and Say
Decoding
Comprehension
Blending
Building
Locating
Decoding
Synthesising

10. Homework Organisation and management of time and resources
Increased responsibility and independence
Consolidate and build on knowledge gained in school
Develop problem solving skills and resilience
Discussion point and opportunity to interact and share success

11. Homework 1:1 Correspondence Measuring Counting Number Formation
Literacy
Numeracy
Other
1:1 Correspondence
Measuring
Counting
Number Formation
Turn Taking

12. Food for Thought… Partnership creates success
Children learn best when they talk about their learning, explaining it to someone else.
Effective completion of homework equates to an extra year of schooling.
Between 5 and 16, children spend only 15% of their lives in school.
You are your child’s most important educator (bedtime reading)
Quality over quantity is key.