Learning Phonics in Reception
Friday 11th October 2024
Aims of the meeting
Importance of developing your child’s spoken language.
Developing a love of reading.
How you can support your child’s reading development at home.
How we teach phonics and word recognition through the Read, Write Inc. scheme.
Children’s spoken language supports reading and writing
Speaking and listening
Every day activities
Sharing books and magazines
STATISTICS
Children’s language at age 2 predicts reading, maths and writing ability when they start school.
Vocabulary at age 5 can predict how well a child does in exams at the end of school, and even their longer term outcomes.
15% – the amount of their time that children spend in school. Children spend so much more time at home.
The role of families for school-aged children is very important, and for very young children, the role parents play is even more critical, and especially so for children’s early language.
The Effective Provision of Pre-school Education (EPPE) project found that what parents and carers do makes a real difference to children’s developm ent ; activities such as reading to children, teaching songs, taking them on visits and creating regular opportunities to play with friends at home were linked to improved learning and interaction skills.
Ways you can support your child at home
Talking and listening. Make time to listen to your child.
Switch off the TV, radio and mobile phones. Show that you are interested in what they are talking about.
Listen at home.
Play games.
Sing songs and Nursery Rhymes.
DEVELOPING A LOVE OF READING
Being a frequent reader is more of an advantage than having welleducated parents.
BOOKS TO LOVE
Why children and parents should read together
Doctors at the Cleveland Clinic recommend that parents read with their children beginning as early as infancy and continuing through elementary school years.
Reading with your children builds warm and happy associations with books, increasing the likelihood that children will find reading enjoyable in the future.
Reading at home boosts school performance later on. It also increases vocabulary, raises self-esteem, builds good communication skills, and strengthens the prediction engine that is the human brain.
Reading – How can I help at home?
Enjoy and share books together. Read the book your child brings home from school.
Discuss the meaning of new words. Discuss the pictures. Let them see you reading. Read signs, labels and posters. Library. Summer Reading Challenge.
Read Write Inc.
Read Write Inc (RWI) is a phonics complete literacy programme which helps all children learn to read fluently and at speed so they can focus on developing their skills in comprehension, vocabulary and spelling. The programme is designed for children aged 4-7. However, at St. Ursula’s we begin the programme in Nursery and will continue teaching RWI to children beyond the age of 7 if they still need support in their reading. RWI was developed by Ruth Miskin and more information on this can be found on the RWI parents page.
UNDERSTANDING PHONICS
HOW TO PRONOUNCE THE SOUNDS
Initial sounds are taught in a specific order so that children can begin to blend once they have built up a certain amount of sounds.
How to help your child learn the Read Write Inc. phonics sounds (yout ube.com)
Teaching Phonics in School
High quality RWI phonic sessions take place every day for Reception and KS1
RWI supports development of reading, writing and spelling
Phonemes and graphemes - ‘Special Friends.’
Segmenting and blending - Fred Talk, Fred in your head.
Reading words ‘speedily’
Read and spell ‘tricky words’ - Red Words
RWI LESSON
Set 1 Speed Sound Lesson
Teaching new sound
Reviewing sounds
Writing new sound
Oral blending
Word Blending
Reading words containing new sound
TEACHING A SET 1 SOUND
The following video shows you how a Set 1 sound would be taught in school and how it can taught at home to consolidate your child’s learning.
https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/reading-owl/find-a-book/r ead-write-inc-phonics--1/set-1-sound-phonics-video
TEACHING BLENDING
The following video shows you how children are taught to blend words once they know some of their Set 1 sounds. This is also known as ‘Fred Talk.’
https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/reading-owl/find-a-book/read -write-inc-phonics--1/independent-blending-phonics-video
Talk to children about the sounds they are learning. Play ‘Fred Games’ to develop oral blending. Here are some examples:
https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/zGVrbkXD/fdA66UGK
https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/0Q2llwVA/HIpskG2O
https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/e15Q8ODB/mC7hCbHK
https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/reading/readin g-schemes-oxford-levels/read-write-inc-pho nics-guide/#
https://www.ruthmiskin.com/parents/
Thank you