Mrs Brittain and Miss Buglione

March

Home Reader Books

How to help at home

Praise and encouragement

Special place and time to read together

Enjoyment

Fun

Phonics!

Remember... Children need to use the letter sounds (not names) to decode words

Blending to readh-a-t hat

r-i-ng ring

Tricky wordsthe no said

Key wordsis that see

digraphs (2 letters that make one sound)

Consonant digraphs

Vowel digraphs

sh th

ch ng

ee or aioa

ieoo (oo) ue

ar er oiou

Phases in phonicsPhase One – Hearing sounds (Nursery) Phase Two – Learning the sounds and starting to blend

for reading and segment for spelling. (Reception autumn term)

Phase Three – Vowel diagraphs (Reception Spring/Summer)Phase Four – CVCC words for example ‘tent’ and CCVC

words for example ‘drop’ and CCVCC words for example ‘crunch’ and ‘ground’

(Reception Summer, Year One Autumn)Phase Five – Alternative spellings and pronunciations

for example ‘play’ ‘cake’ rain’ ‘fin’ and ‘find’ (30 weeks)

Activity: how many phonemes (sounds) are in these words?

Word games to play with the reading book

High frequency word hunt e.g. the, said

Sentence chop

Digraph spotter race

Phonics is important, but don’t stop the focus here...

Draw children’s attention to the picture to help work out what they are reading

As questions to help your child think about what is going to happen next... etc. Talk about the story, what you have read together.

Language Comprehension Supported in school by...

Support at home by...

Small world play

Puppets

Role-play

Paintings/models of stories/characters

Dressing up

Drawing pictures of favourite characters and making up stories for them

Sock puppets

Talking about stories

What reading looks like in school1:1 reading

Group/guided reading

Using a wide range of text typesRemember to draw attention to print in the environment at home too

Video clip of Guided Reading

group

Video clip of Guided Reading

group

Children are expressing their love of stories, known characters, own ideas and are keen to write these down

Children are encouraged to write down the sounds they can hear in the words (oral segmenting is very important to observe at this stage as recall of the correct letter shapes is a higher level skill)

Helping at home... forming letters

Encourage ‘frogs leg’ pencil grip (pinch and flick!)

Movement of letter shapes is of most importance (not neatness!)

Encourage and praise all ‘writing’

Time to try phonic activities!Look at the activities on the table and have a go!

Any questions?

Thank you for coming.