1. Hawes Down Primary School Achievement, Bravery and Compassion
Early Reading
Home Reading
Systematic Phonics
Handwriting Script

2. Reading for Pleasure
Evidence suggests that there is a positive relationship between reading frequency, reading enjoyment and attainment (Clark 2011; Clark and Douglas 2011).

3. Skilled reading requires two processes:
That the reader recognises and understands the words on the page (that is, word recognition processes or decoding)
The development of language comprehension (that is, written texts as well as spoken language are understood and interpreted).

4. Other reading strategies
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5. Home shared reading at Hawes Down
One of the greatest gifts adults can give—to their offspring and to their society—is to read to children. —Carl Sagan
Children will change their books once a week – they will each be given a certain day to change them on.
The teacher assesses the children's reading progression regularly and changes your child’s reading band as needed
The targets we use to assess progression will be in the front of your child’s reading record.

7. Learn to Read There are 540,000 words in the English language.
On average, a child needs to see a word 25 times before s/he recognises the word
There is no one method, medium, approach, device or philosophy that holds the key to learning to read.
Children who read well do better in all aspects of education and beyond.

8. Phonics
We follow the Letters and Sounds scheme of work and use the Jolly Phonics songs to consolidate the learning.
Everyday your children will learn new sounds so that they can start word building from day one.
We will learn several sounds (phonemes) each week until we have learnt all of them.
We also teach digraphs - 2 letters that make 1 sound when put together – ch.
We teach these sounds using pictures, games, objects and songs.
The aim: To get your children to use these sounds to sound out and blend simple words when reading and writing.

9. Phonics Homework
On Friday’s you will receive your child’s homework book.
Each week we will be learning several new sounds.
We will send home these sounds in a homework book for you to practise with your child.
With these sounds there will be a range of activities that can help you support your child with their learning at home. The activities will differ in challenge so you can select an activity suited to your child.

10. High Frequency Words (Tricky word)
High frequency words are quite simply those words which occur most frequently in written material, for example, "and", "the", "as" and "it".
Some of these words can be decoded, however not all of them and these need to be learnt by sight. We call these ‘tricky words’
A copy of each phased high frequency words will be in the back of your child's reading record for them to practice at home.

11. Please be aware that each sound (phoneme) is said in a particular way.
Enunciation
Please be aware that each sound (phoneme) is said in a particular way.
C - A - T not CER- AH – TER
The correct enunciation of these sounds will help your child to blend them and hear the word when reading.

12. Handwriting Script

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15. Any Questions?