Aims:
To give you some ideas on motivating
your child to read.
To know how to use phonics at home.
To answer any other questions you
might have.
Motivating your Child
• Address by Mr Kelly
• Boys - a male role model may help
• Regular visits to placed like the
library, theatre, shows or cinema
• Not just books, use the Internet,
reading magazines, talking, or
listening to recorded stories
• Praise & rewards
Recommended children’s
Authors
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David McKee (Not Now Bernard)
Eric Carle (The Very Hungry Caterpillar)
Michael Rosen (We’re Going on a Bearhunt)
Janet and Allan Ahlberg (The baby’s catalogue)
Julia Donaldson (The Gruffalo)
Mick Inkpen (Kipper’s Toybox)
Jill Murphy (Peace at last)
Judith Kerr (The Tiger Who Came To Tea)
Rod Campbell (Dear Zoo)
Reading at school
•Shared Reading
•Guided Reading
•Individual Reading
•Quiet Reading
•Paired Reading
A Letters & Sounds session
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10 – 15 minute daily work
Children grouped according to ability
Recapping all the sounds
Practising the new sound for the day
Reading tricky words on sight
Blending for reading
Segmenting phonemes using a phoneme
frame for CVC, or CVVC words e.g. cat
c-a-t, boat b-oa-t
• Applying skills – reading or writing a
sentence
Letters & Sounds
• Phase 2 sounds • Phase 3 sounds
•Jvwxyz
•Satpin
• Zz qu ch sh th th
•Mdgock
• ng oa ee or oo oo
• Ck e u r h b
• Ar ur ow oi er ear
• F ff l ll ss
• Air ai ure igh
Pearson's Bug Club
ORT
Phonics
Organisation of books
Book band levels
(Old)
Cream
Pink
Red
Yellow
Blue
Green
Orange
Black
Purple
Grey
White
Pale blue
Gold
Free reader
ORT book band
levels
Lilac
Pink
Red
Yellow
Blue
Green
Orange
Turquoise
Purple
Gold
White
Lime
Brown
Early Reading Skills
In order to become good readers, children need
to:
- have lots of stories read to them and discuss the
pictures which will help to develop their vocabulary
- sharing books, films, hobbies, interests etc, will help
to develop their language & listening skills.
- learn that reading in English is from left to right
- know the letter sounds (phonics)
- learn that print is different from pictures
Reading Development
• Some children learn to read in different
ways and at different rates.
• Some children learn to sound out the
letters and blend them together for
reading.
• Some children learn to read the words on
the page but find it tricky to understand
the text.
• But children become successful readers by
learning to use a range of strategies to get
at the meaning of a text
Strategies for Reading
The lion was
laying in the sun.
• Sound out the word
• Use pictures
• Miss the word, read to the end of the sentence,
go back and think what would make sense
• Check reading makes sense
Children can improve their
reading by:
• Self correcting when something does not
make sense
• Using expression
• Noticing and using punctuation marks
• Reading at a faster pace with greater
fluency
• Exploring the meaning of new words
• Showing an interest in longer texts
Assessing reading
• Teachers assess children's reading
regularly, using Benchmarking and
teacher assessments, and move children
to the next colour band when appropriate
• Children should be reading at least 95% of
the text accurately and understand what
they have read and be able to answer
questions about the text
Other Ideas To Help Your
Child Read
• Make reading fun and relevant to your child!
• Share books and other forms of print
• Play word games e.g. I Spy, Rhyming words,
making pretend words
• Practise “tricky” words and sounds as often as
possible
• Encourage your child to use different strategies
like using pictures, reading on, sounding out etc.
• Use PRAISE continually throughout reading
• Finding the right time and place to read
• Be a role model and read
Comprehension
• Children need to have a good
understanding of what they have
read.
• Predict what might happen next
• Find words in the text
• Discuss likes/dislikes
• Encourage them to ask questions
about the text
• Retell the story in their own words
•A finishing thought…
• Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an
Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in
waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the
olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and
lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset
can be a toatl mses and you can sitll
raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae
we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but
the wrod as a wlohe.