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RWI Phonics Workshop
For Reception Parents
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2.Aims of Our Workshop
• to find out about how your child learns to read
in school.
• to learn how you can help with phonics and
reading at home.
• to have some fun……..
PARTNER WORK WARM UP!
Learn some praises!
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3. Learning to Read in Reception
Children need to:
• have a rich reading environment and to foster a
love of books
• share books for fun
• listen to stories and talk about them
• interact with the pictures and text
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4. Learning to Read in Reception
Reading Skills:
• learn letter sounds
• learn to blending sounds to read words
• learn to read words in a sentence
• learn to read with fluency and understanding.
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5. Pure Sounds Please!
Video: saying the letter sounds.
Have a go!
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6. Meet Fred the Frog!
*Pure sounds.
*Sound buttons.
* Blending for reading (decoding)
b-a-t, bat.
* Segmenting for spelling
(encoding) map, m-a-p.
Fred….
• speaks in pure sounds
• he can only sound talk
• he cannot blend the
sounds to make words
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7. Set 1 Speed Sounds Activities
Say the sound.
Read the sound.
Play with the sound!
Handwrite the letter.
Fred Talk some words containing the sound.
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8. Word Time Activities 1-7
Blend the sounds to read words with cards
Blend the sounds to make words with
magnetic letters
Spell the words with Fred Fingers
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Tricky Words !
• These are words which don’t follow the
phonic patterns.
• They have to be learn as sight words.
• We call them RED words.
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10. Reading Book Activities
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Green and Red words
Practise the sounds
Fred Talk the words
Read the story
Questions to talk about
Fluency and expression
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11. Set 2 Sounds
• Hear and Say the sound (Special Friend)
• Read the sound (Special Friend)
• Fred Talk words
• Fred in the head!
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Alien Words!
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slock
chom
marl
quem
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Early Writing Skills in Reception
• Children need to:
• explore with mark making
• learn the correct letter formation
• learn correct pencil grip
• to write from a model
• to hold a sentence in their heads
• to build a sentence and write it
spelling…. spaces…. punctuation….
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Fun Phonics Quiz Time!
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Early Reading Strategies
Encourage your child to:
• look at the letter sounds
• blend the sounds to read the word
• look out for special friends
• check to see if the word makes sense
• go back to the beginning
• learn the tricky words
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How You Can Help?
• Read Read Read with your children!
• Learn how to say the sounds yourself!
• Ask them to Fred Talk the words or sound them out
with you.
• Ask them to spot any special friends
• Look at the Ruth Miskin web site for parents
• Watch out for RWI on Pegasus world and our new
Phonics Booklet.
• Buy/borrow RWI cards (not the books!)
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Any Questions?
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