BARHAM PRIMARY SCHOOL
Reception Reading Meeting
How to support your child with reading

Reading in Reception
• All children are beginning the process of learning to read
• Learning to read in Reception means access to other subjects;
• Maths
• Science
• History & Geography
• Languages

Lots of research suggests that the best way to support your child is:
• Talking to them as much as possible.
• Teach Nursery Rhymes
• Reading Fairytales
• Singing songs
• Sharing books together.
» EPPE, DfES, 2004

It’s never too early to start!

ACTIVITY:
What do you remember about learning to read?
Talk to the person next to you.

Only in English?
• Reading
– finding out about the world
– sharing stories
• Home Language
– heritage
– identity
– family ties

Phonics!
• Research shows that phonics is the best and fastest way to teach reading and writing.
But what is phonics? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwJx1NSineE
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Practise saying the sounds together.

Blending
• We teach children the sounds and they use these to read the words.
• We sometimes use sound buttons to do this.
• Let ’ s practise a few together.

Segmenting
• We teach children to segment the sounds to write words.
• We use phoneme frames to support, children write 1 sound on each line.
• Let ’ s practise some together.

Home Readers
• Thank you for your comments in your children’s reading records. They are very helpful to us.
• Please continue to do so.

Guided Reading in Reception
• The children are taking part in guided reading session each week in small groups.
• They read a variety of books during the guided reading session.

Guided Reading Session

Reading Tips (before you read)
• Look at the cover. What do you think the story will be about?
• Run through the book using the language of the book.
• Talk about reading strategies.

More Reading Tips (while you are reading)
• Pictures
• Phonics
• Tricky words and High Frequency words
• Comprehension

Where to go for more help:
• Class teacher
• Library; Ealing Road, Town Hall
• National Literacy Trust; www.literacytrust.org.uk
• Handout

• Any questions?
Questions:
• Please remember to take a leaflet
• Thank you for coming
The Reception Team