Supporting your
child with their
progress in Reading
and Writing.
Literacy starts with language
• Skills for talk
• Playing with words- Songs and rhymes,
rhyming games, alliteration
• Story Time- joining in and talking about
• Language for creating stories
• Learning grammar conventions, tenses
• Developing oral sentence structure
How you can support language
development at home
• Talk, talk and more talk
• Make time for quality talk beyond ‘business talk’
ensuring background noise is minimal
• Gentle correcting and modelling
• Encourage good skills for speaking and listening
at home
• Help your child to develop language for creating
stories by reading to them daily, supporting and
encouraging small world and pretend play.
Phonics
What are Synthetic phonics?
Systematic phonic work involves teaching the
children the correspondence between units of
sound in spoken language, phonemes and
letters, graphemes in written language In
synthetic phonics these are taught in a clearly
defined sequence and at pace.
Research has shown that this is the most effective
way for children to learn to read and write
Phonics- How we teach it at School
• Everyday new phoneme inputs, Fridays tricky
word work
• Progression of sounds (phonemes) - rapid input
with pace within sessions
• The Importance of correct sounds for blending
• Handwriting linked to the letters
• Robot talk – oral blending and segmenting
• Reading words- sound buttons
• Building then writing words, eventually into
captions and sentences
How you can support your child
with their phonic development at
home
• Practice phonemes and letters in Home
Learning folders
• Playing phonic/word games and simple word
books sent home
• Play some of the traditional games such as
eye spy, point out words and letters you see,
select words for them to read with you
• Support them to write letters with correct
formation
How you can support reading work,
and word work at home
• Practice reading ‘tricky’ words we send home
• Support your child to sound out- sound buttons
• Encourage them to look at the pictures to help
them
• If the are struggling too much on a word just
say it for them
• Repetition is vital to gain flow and then from this
comprehension
• Ask questions about what they have read e.g.
what colour was the…? What did…say?
Use of tricky words- a tricky
word is one that is not phonetic
i.e. you cannot sound it out.
These are words the children
need to learn by sight for e.g.
The, I, go, no, my, to
How you can support at home
• Support your child in practicing
saying them daily
• Point them out when reading
books
• Practice writing them once they
are confident with reading them
Reading at school
• Children all learn to read at different paces…its not a race it’s a
journey
• Children read everyday at school within phonics time in
differentiated input and games in reading time its not always
about the reading book.
• Reading group books and activities are closely differentiated
according to the children's ability to blend sounds and their
phonic ability
• Children are regularly assessed to ensure the level the are
working at is appropriate, to ascertain their skills for reading
and identify their next steps
• Book change for parents will be happening after half term on a
Wednesday and will be a mixture of game pages and books
dependent on your child’s current level.
How you can support reading at home
As parents you are your child's most influential teacher with
an important part to play in helping your child to learn to
read. Here are some suggestions on how you can help to
make this a positive experience
Read to them as regularly as possible, never
sacrifice reading to them for hearing them read.
• Encourage the child to join in with the words when
you read
• It's not just books, magazines, online stories,
packaging, non-fiction
• Comprehension- There is more to being a good
reader than just being able to read the words
accurately.
Supporting them with their reading activity
or book at home
• Try to read with your child on most school days.
'Little and often' is best.
• Always be positive- Constant praise.
• Remember 'Nothing succeeds like success‘
pushing on too quickly can have the opposite effect.
• Encourage your child to follow the words with their
finger and sound out the words (c-a-t: cat).
• Encourage them to look at clues in the pictures
• Support them with reading longer words by helping
them split the word into 2 or more sections.
• Communicate- Your child has a reading log, try to
communicate regularly with positive comments. Your
child will then know that you are interested in their
progress and that you value their reading.
• As they become more fluent encourage
them to use expression in their voice
when reading
• Discuss the punctuation and the effect
that has on how we read e.g. use of
exclamation marks
• Point out ‘tricky’ words in the text
Developing Physical abilities for Handwriting
Developing Handwriting at
School
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Daily Hand Gym
Handwriting- associated saying with letters
Joining of diagraphs e.g. oo or ay
Lead ins are shown when the children
have a good grasp of correct formation of
letters
• Targets- letters on line, size, formation,
hanging letters
Developing skills for writing
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Motivation!
Purpose for writing
Hold a sentence
Sentence structure- punctuation
Developing ideas for writing
Developing confidence and independence
Targets for next time- next steps
How you can support your child
with their writing skills at home
• Provide mark making opportunities
including using scissors
• Encourage correct formation but be
positive
• Encourage independence
• Writing for a purpose
• Encourage them to spell the ‘tricky
words’ you know they know, correctly
Please ask if you have
any queries or need
advice we are always
happy to help.
Many thanks for coming!!!!