1. 12/14/2015 Parent Workshop Tuesday 13 th October 2015 St Thomas More

2. Children who read at home do well at school Read fluently Write confidently Speak articulately

3. Purpose The purpose of RWI phonics is for children to learn to read as quickly as possible so that they will then be able to read a wide of books that will propel their vocabulary growth

4. What children should be able to do at the end of Reception Read Write Inc facilitates children to achieve these goals

5. How does it work? Through RWI your child will:  Learn sounds with their corresponding letters and letter groups  Learn how to read words by blending  Read lots of specially written books featuring all the words they have learned to sound out & blend (decoding)  Learn correct letter formation  Become confident to spell using sounds

6. What to look out for today: The 5 principles of RWI Praise – Children learn quickly in a positive climate. Pace – Good pace is essential to the lesson. Purpose – Every part of the lesson has a specific purpose. Passion – It is the energy, enthusiasm and passion that brings the teaching and learning to life! Participation - A strong feature of R.W.I. lessons is partner work and the partners ‘teaching’ each other (based on research which states that we learn 70% of what we talk about with our partner and 90% of what we teach).

7. Learning walk  Lets take a look at RWI in action

8. Learning sounds All words are made up of sounds The written form is called a grapheme Here are the graphemes for the sound ow and a-e Children use these sounds to spell through Fred talk

9. Teaching a new sound

10. About Fred...  We use Fred to help the children to learn to read Fred can only talk in sounds... (Fred can only say c_a_t, he can’t say cat) We call this Fred Talk If children can understand what Fred says they can blend orally. Blending is needed for reading We call the words which children can decode green words

11.  Fred also helps the children to spell Children convert a whole word they hear into sounds They put sounds they hear in a word on their fingers... We call this Fred Fingers Video clip

13. 12/14/2015Copyright Ruth Miskin Literacy  Some words cannot be decoded using Fred talk – these are called Red words E.g. Said no could some Red words...

14. Reading a story (using their sounds)

15. Storybooks Activity 1 (Speed Sounds) Before children read the story they review the sounds they know and practise reading the words. My turn, your turn. Partner teaching

17. Storybooks Green and Red Words The children will then practise the words that will be used in the Storybook, particularly the multi-syllabic words and any tricky words. Multi-syllabic Tricky

18. Storybooks  After the children will have the opportunity to read the text independently and to help their partner read every word correctly – no guessing! They will also be asked questions to develop their comprehension (understanding)

19. RWI Writing There are 3 main processes involved in writing: handwriting, encoding (spelling) and language comprehension. Handwriting Children are taught how to form letters of the alphabet accurately, quickly and effortlessly. The formation is practised every day until children can write the alphabet letters quickly and easily. Encoding Speed Sound Lessons teach children both to decode for reading and encode for writing. Language Comprehension 1.Storytimes 2.Talk through the day 3.Talk and write through play  RWI develops not only reading but writing too.

20. Supporting at home  Knowing how to say set 1, 2 and 3 sounds (see handout)  Using Fred talk to help with reading and spelling  You can also help by reading lots of lovely stories that are at a higher level than your child can read yet & asking lots of questions! What is that character thinking What is that character saying? What do you think that character is feeling now? What is happening in this part of the story? What do you think happens next?