1. Reception Homework Meeting
Welcome
Intro you and donna

2. Why are we here today? How school teaches your child to read. Homework
What you can do to help.

4. How do children learn to read?
Phonics
Tricky words
Picture cues
Internal understanding of how sentences are structured.
Imagine a flood lit foot ball pitch at night…. Its better to have all four lights on than 2 or 3.
Each of the lights representing these four areas.
Phonics
Tricky words
Picture cues
Internal understanding of how sentences are structured.
It is only once they have had experience of these four areas that they are able to progress with their ability to read.
Having an understanding of two or three areas isn't enough, they all impact on each other and make it easier for your child to progress with reading.

5. Phonics 4 Basic Skills Learning the letter sounds. (Phoneme)
Hearing sounds within words. (Segmenting = writing)
Blending the sounds together to make a word. (Blending = reading)
4. Letter formation. (learning what the letter looks like and the sound it represents)
The first area is PHONICS.
Now within Phonics there are 4 basic skills
Learning the letter sounds. (Or The Phonemes)
Hearing sounds within words. (Segmenting = this helps your child to write)
Blending the sounds together to make a word. (Blending = This helps your child to read)
Letter formation. (learning what the letter looks like and the sound it represents)

6. How do we teach phonics within school?
We a variety of tools with school.
Firstly we teach children the different phonemes .
So what is a phoneme – click next slide

7. Phonemes The smallest unit of sound in a word.
Important to understand – it’s the sound, not its letter name.
Where can I go to get help with what the phonemes sounds like?
A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound within a word.
Most words are made up of more than one unit of sound.
Ill explain more about that later.
There are 42 phonemes that we teach.

8. s a t p i n m d g o c k ck e u r h b f ff l ll ss j v w x y z zz qu chsh th ng ai ee
igh oa oo ar or ow oi
ear
air
ure er
Here are some of the sounds we teach…
There are Single letter sounds – like…
Two letters that make a single sound … like
and
Three letters that make a single sound… like
Air, ear

9. Phonics 4 Basic Skills Learning the letter sounds. (Phoneme)
Hearing sounds within words. (Segmenting = writing)
Blending the sounds together to make a word. (Blending = reading)
4. Letter formation. (learning what the letter looks like and the sound it represents)
2 .
Hearing sounds within words. (Segmenting = this helps your child to write)

10. SEGMENTING IS ‘Chopping Up’ the word to sound it out
The opposite of blending
We use Phonics Fingers e.g m-a-n
Once your child has learnt the different sounds, they are then able to hear them within words.
Children are then able to chop words up into these different sounds (which we call segmenting) which helps them to learn to spell.
Eg.
If I was a child and wanted to write the word man, I would chop the word up.

11. Phonics 4 Basic Skills Learning the letter sounds. (Phoneme)
Hearing sounds within words. (Segmenting = writing)
Blending the sounds together to make a word. (Blending = reading)
4. Letter formation. (learning what the letter looks like and the sound it represents)
3. Blending the sounds together to make a word. (Blending = This helps your child to read)

12. BLENDING
Initially we teach children to hear sounds and blend together.
Then…
Once they have learnt the first set of sounds we then practice blending them together from left to right.
For example s-u-n
Initially we teach children to hear sounds and blend together.
Then…
Once they have learnt the first set of sounds we then practice blending them together from left to right.
For example s-u-n
If your child is at Mosque please beware that it is left to right and that quite a few children do get this wrong so keep an eye out for it.

13. Phonics 4 Basic Skills Learning the letter sounds. (Phoneme)
Hearing sounds within words. (Segmenting = writing)
Blending the sounds together to make a word. (Blending = reading)
4. Letter formation. (learning what the letter looks like and the sound it represents)
Letter formation. (learning what the letter looks like and the sound it represents and how to correctly form it)
As part of your child's home work there will be sheets that teach how to do this correctly.
Consistent message

14. Please encourage
your child to practise
their sounds and actions
in their phonics folder.

15. How do children learn to read?
Phonics
Tricky words
Picture cues
Right now we have looked at phonics
Lets look at tricky words.

16. TRICKY WORDS
Words that you can not use phonics to help you work them out.
e.g. was, the
Your child will be sent home a tricky word bookmark.
What are tricky words… well tricky words are…

17. Picture Cues Picture Cues,
Children can gather a lot of information by looking at pictures. (for example; vocabulary, what something is or why it happens etc..)
And this only happens through good quality descriptive talking.
This can also be in your own language or english.
The most important thing is that your child gets the opportunity to sit down with you and do this.
This is vital for children understanding the book. Teachers call this comprehension. There is no point being able to read what has been written if you don’t understand what it means. (stress that)
This is why for the first term, your child will have talkabout cards and non-word books.
Talk about cards are detailed pictures from a variety of settings with tiered questions.
1st tier - is literal questions – what something is or what you see.
2nd tier questions – stretch your child and extend there understanding about a word. What are they doing or feeling or why is that happening.

19. Reading Books Bring reading book bag to school every day.
Please sign or make a comment in reading record each time you listen to them read (at least three times a week).
This year your child will have a specific day when their books are changed however, please bring reading book bag to school every day.
Please sign or make a comment in reading record each time you listen to them read (at least three times a week).
The books that the children get sent home may at first seem easy to parents.
But they let the child
Practice how to hold a book
Which way text flows right to left
Practice phonic
It is our job as teachers to teach your child how to read.
It is your job to enjoy them reading to you. Lets build up the love for reading and their self esteem.

20. How you can help at home

21. Talking and listening
Reading with and to your child (100 Book Challenge)
Singing songs and rhymes
Playing listening games such as I spy and oral blending (phonic fingers) c-a-t
Bedtime stories

22. Where can I find resources to help?
Internet games -
(Alphablocks or youtube – jollyphonics)
Online books- 
School Website -
Check out our Reception Class Page
Youtube – Geraldine the Giraffe or
Listen to
the sounds
using this link.

23. Additional Homework
Personal Challenges
Bedtime stories

25. Thank you very much for coming.
Any questions?
Thank you very much for coming.