Reading and writing together!

St Blaise – November 2013

Sarah Cook - Education Adviser

Thank you!

• Reading and writing partnership

All children who are supported at home do better than children who are not…

Reading in school

• Phonics

• Shared Reading

• Guided Reading

• Independent reading

• Class books - read aloud

Reading together!

Asking different questions…

Vary how you do it…

• The child may read to you…• You may take it in turns to share the

reading…• You may read to them…

Remember - the child doesn’t have to have read the book by themselves for you to be able to have a good discussion about what has been read!

Make reading time together an enjoyable experience.

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Make sure they see you read!

Vary what they read…

Read a range of things with your child and then try out the different question types.

It could be… a book from school… a book at home...a book from the library… or something on-line…

It could be… a story… a comic…an information book… a leaflet...a catalogue…

Phonics

• The building blocks

• 26 letters

• Phonemes and graphemes

44 phonemes

• consonant phonemes• vowel phonemes (short and long)

Phonemes

How many phonemes are there in each word?

dog jumppin edgemoon clownbend stopnest shopcow playblock

straight

Can you robot-speak….?

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A grapheme is:

• a letter, or sequence of letters, that represent a phoneme

• 144 graphemes to represent the 44 phonemes

A grapheme may be:

One letter (graph) catTwo letters (digraph) ship moonThree letters (trigraph) bridge lightFour letters straight bought

A split digraph name like bone Pete cube

Pronunciation

Spelling

LookSay

Cover Write

Check!

Writing in school

• Phonics

• Shared Writing

• Guided Writing

• Independent Writing

Aspects of writing…

What do I need to be a good writer?

Considerations…

Interesting to read Fit for purpose

Organised Sequenced

Sentences Punctuated

Appropriate words Spelling

Legible

Talk for writing

ImmerseImitate

Innovate Invent

The Teaching Sequence & Talk for Writing

Read

Plan

Analyse

Review

Write

Good writers…

– Good writers read– Good writers also read as writers– Good writers plan– Good writers draft and craft

writing– Good writers re-read– Good writers transcribe efficiently

Handwriting

• Pencil grip

• Letter formation – own name– UPPER and lower case

• Joining

Enjoy sharing books…Join the library…

Give book tokens…Make up and tell stories together…

Encourage story mapping…Encourage writing –

stories, recounts, lists …Have fun!!

Helping at home…