Reading meeting for
Parents
Aims
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To teach the basics of phonics and some useful phonics terms.
To support you in reading with your child at home.
To share how reading is taught at Ravenbank.
To show examples of activities and resources we use to teach/support
reading.
• To share what is expected by the end of Key Stage 1 in reading.
• To inform you how we measure progress in reading.
• To share websites which parents can use to support their children.
The importance of phonics
• “Being able to read is the most important skill children will learn
during their early schooling and has far-reaching implications for
lifelong confidence and well-being.” (‘Letters and Sounds’ Principles
and Practice of High Quality Phonics).
• The Independent Review of Early Reading, conducted by Jim Rose,
confirmed that ‘high quality phonic work’ should be the prime means
for teaching beginner readers to learn to read and spell.
What is phonics?
• Synthetic phonics is simply the ability to convert a letter or letter group
into sounds that are then blended together into a word.
• Identifying sounds in spoken words.
• Recognising the common spellings of each phoneme.
• Blending phonemes into words for reading.
• Segmenting words into phonemes for spelling.
How to say the sounds with children
• Correct pronunciation of the sounds when reading with your child is
extremely important.
• The way we say sounds may well be different from when you were at
school.
• We say the shortest form of the sounds.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOW3pB2KwGA
Real and alien words
• These words are taken
from the Year 1 phonics
screening test (2016)
• The pass mark for this
assessment was 32/40
• How were you able to
read these words. What
strategies did you use?
How can I help with phonics?
• Have a sound mat to hand when
reading / writing with your child to help
them to segment and blend words
independently.
• Praise your child for trying out words.
• Look at tricky words.
• Play phonics games together.
Phonics is just the beginning to
becoming a fluent reader…
• Please continue to read with your child each night and encourage
them to:
• Sound out.
• Re-read to check it makes sense.
• Use pictures for clues.
• Ask questions about the book.
• Most importantly ENJOY READING!
"Children are made readers on the laps of their parents."
— Emilie Buchwald
Reading at home
• It is important to read the school books which
are at the appropriate level for your child- aim
for at least one book a week.
• It is also important to expose children to books
above and below their reading level. We will look
at a recommended book list for year 2 children.
• Comprehension (the understanding of a text) is
becoming increasingly important. You can use
the coloured bookmarks for questions that can
be applied to most texts and are appropriate for
the reading level.
• Reading records- to record what your child has
read and a short comment on how they read.
Questions to provide a deeper
understanding of a text
A. Why could Chloe be
nervous?
B. Where do you think Chloe
is? What made you think
that?
C. What gave Chloe the
courage to start playing
the piano?
What questions could you ask t0
encourage the children to think about
what they are reading?
A.
B.
C.
One more go…
A.
B.
C.
Sharing reading
• Following on from that quote it is as important that children have books read to
them as when they read to parents.
• Pie Corbett is an English educational writer and a poet who has written well over
two hundred books. He is well known for promoting creative approaches in the
classroom and has had a great deal of experience as a teacher, head teacher and
Ofsted inspector. He regularly lectures on education all around the United
Kingdom.
• Pie explains that in year 2 it is important to move on from sharing picture books
to sharing chapter books. Of course younger children may sit and enjoy a chapter
book but by year 2 it is crucial to their reading experience.
Pie Corbett’s recommended books
for Year 2 children
• Meerkat Mail- Emily Gravett
• Amazing Grace- Mary Hoffman
• Pumpkin Soup- Helen Cooper
• Who’s afraid of the Big Bad book?- Lauren Child
• Not now Bernard- David McKee
• Tuesday- David Wiesner
• Fantastic Mr Fox- Roald Dahl
• The Hodgeheg- Dick King-Smith
• Flat Stanley- Jeff Brown
For a full list visit the link:
https://images.scholastic.co.uk/assets/a/9f/bc/pie-corbett-with-page-no1393983.pdf
Reading at Ravenbank:
What is guided reading?
• Guided reading is a small group of children at the same reading level
sharing a book with an adult.
• The sessions are 20-25 minutes long.
• Children will be given the ‘tools’ for reading and given ‘strategies’ for
understanding.
• When children are not reading they will do a variety of activities
during the week so by Friday all children have read and completed
each activity. Some examples of the activities- phonics game or
written activity, spelling/grammar activity, phonics games on laptop,
reading comprehension, paired reading of appropriate book.
Examples of activities to support
reading
• Activity 1- Drawing what you can ‘see’ when reading a piece of text.
Uses your minds eye.
• Activity 2- Reading part of a story and predicting what might happen
next. Uses your understanding of the story so far and your knowledge
of the structure of a story.
• Activity 3- Look at the characters from a well- known story and write
questions that you would ask these characters if they were here.
Brings the story to life and encourages you to think about the plot of
the story before designing appropriate questions.
How is reading assessed?
• Through guided reading.
• Through individual reading and questioning.
• Through assessments.
• Through children’s work in English lessons.
• Through the sats- reading comprehension.
What does a year 2 reading
assessment look like?
• Take a minute to look at the reading assessments on the tables so
you can see the types of text children will be expected to read and
the questions they will be given.
• This particular assessment is the one children have completed today.
• The children will then complete another practice sats paper in March
before their sats assessments in May 2017.
What is expected
by the end of Key
Stage 1 (Year 2) ?
Useful links
• www.phonicsplay.co.uk
• http://www.northwood.org.uk/phonics.htm
• www.ictgames.com/literacy.html
• www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/phonics/
• http://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/question/index/3
• http://www.teachyourmonstertoread.com/
Thank you for coming
• I hope that you have found the information useful.
• This presentation will be uploaded to the school website.
• If you have any questions, please ask.
• Please pick up the appropriate bookmark to use with your child at home.
• Usborne books will be selling books after school today in the library area.
There will also be some laptops with the website ‘Teach your monster to
read’ if you would like to have a look.