Read Write Inc. and literacy in KS1.

Welcome and thank you for coming.

Why Phonics?

• A complete literacy programme - systematic and structured.

• Meets the demands of the new national curriculum, giving your children the best chance of success in the national tests.

• One-to-one tutoring - no child is left behind.

• Storybooks align with the sounds learnt in class.

Who is Phonics for?

Once completing the Phonics programme, children in Y2 will begin the school’s literacy programme – The Text

Based curriculum.

A bit of technical knowledge…

• Phonics = the sounds in our language.

• There are 44 spoken sounds (phonemes) but over 150 ways to write those sounds (graphemes).

• Watch our sound pronunciation guide.

What they have learnt already in Reception…

Children are taught the sound alongside a picture. Pictures help children to remember the sounds they

are taught and learn how to write them.

c-a-t •ch-a-t

•l-igh-t

•c-r-a-sh

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play mayk trayn cafay strayt wayt brayk green dreem kee hee happee light kight fligh Igh igh tigh blow smowk flowt gow mowst moon broot bloo groo

If English had a simple code spelling and reading would be much easier!

Now they are in KS1…

ay igh

play

eight

cake

straight

right

pie

kite

fly

Set 3 sounds

Phonics Screening Check

Spelling • Alongside learning sounds and word reading,

we teach children how to spell accurately too.

• This shows the children reading and writing go hand in hand.

• Teaching spelling – say, pinch, write.

Spelling homework

• Linked to the sounds they have been learning or taken from the storybook they have been reading in class that week.

Storybooks

Words from the story

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Green Words can be sounded out:

p-i-n j-u-m-p s-w-i-m th-i-nk

Words from the story

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Red Words are high frequency tricky words and the children learn them without sounding:

said was the

Children later learn that all words can be sounded

out, some just have tricky graphemes.

• Children will take home the book they have been reading in class. They should be able to read it well.

• Take it in turns to read the sound and word pages- help each other! Let your child correct you.

• Take it in turns to read the story.

• Ask questions on each page.

• Read the speed words quickly, in and out of order.

• Make sure you know which days your child has their book changed. Make sure they remember their book bags!

Reading RWI books at home

Following Read Write Inc. • The Text Based Curriculum

What does it involve?

• carefully chosen quality core texts (including fiction and non-fiction texts) which act as the stimulus to teach pupils to speak and write fluently so that they can communicate their ideas and emotions to others and through their reading and listening, others can communicate with them.

• Over a three week period pupils have a series of lessons all linked to the core text.

Reciprocal Reading

• In order to develop pupils’ comprehension skills we use a technique called Reciprocal Reading.

• Reciprocal reading involves a dialogue between the teacher, teaching assistant, or partner and children for the purpose of jointly constructing the meaning of a text. It is a group activity where the leader first models a number of effective reading strategies which the children learn to use for themselves independently.

• The strategies practised in reciprocal reading are: Prediction Clarification Questioning Summarising

• The group read short sections of a text independently and then discuss it as a group, building their understanding through dialogue.

How to help your child enjoy reading at home

• Encourage your child to read to you. Follow the words with

your finger and sound out the words (c-a-t: cat).

• You may be used to saying the letter names but your child

will be learning to say the sound the letter makes.

• Be positive. Praise your child for trying hard at their

reading. Mistakes are all part of learning.

• Share favourite stories again and again. Repeating phrases helps build children's language.

• Read some stories at a higher level than they can read themselves.

• Introduce your child to a wide variety of books. You can always join a local library and borrow lots of books!

How you can help your child understand stories…

By reading your child lots of lovely stories and asking lots of questions!

Use these prompts to help you:

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What is that

character

thinking?

What is the

character

saying?

What do you

think that character is

feeling now?

What is happening?

What do you think happens next?

More information

• Ruth Miskin Training parents’ page –

trainer top tips and book

recommendations.

• www.ruthmiskintraining.com/parents

• Sign up to the Ruth Miskin Training

newsletter on the website homepage.

Resources

• https://global.oup.com/education/content/primary/series/rwi/

parents/

And...

•By enriching conversations through description:

“Look at that rain. It looks like little diamonds sparkling on the window pane!”

•By having fun with words and language.

“I’m as hot as a spud in a cooking pot!”

•By praising your child for using new words or interesting phrases

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Thank you...

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Happy reading!