Reading and Phonics
Reading is at the heart of our curriculum and we base each half term around a quality children’s text. All children from Foundation Stage to Year 6 take part in Daily Reading sessions. Reading focuses upon the core skills required for reading comprehension. Staff are trained in the Power of Reading and understand the importance of high quality literature and how to use it creatively in the classroom in order to develop a lifelong love of reading.
The teaching of phonics is based on the Read, Write, Inc approach. Daily Phonic lessons take place in Foundation Stage and Key Stage One and phonics is an integral part of daily teaching and learning. The phonic sessions consist of review, teach, practice and apply.
Our Phonics aims:
Phonics
At Laithes, we teach children to read using the Read Write Inc phonics scheme. Children will learn sounds and words. They will learn how to successfully decode using 'Fred Talk'. Fred is a toy frog that we use to engage children in saying the sounds correctly.
There will be a strong focus on Phonics and Reading throughout Early Years and Year 1. Daily, consistent Phonics, will support your child become a successful reader and make them feel confident when taking the Phonics Screening Test at the end of Year 1.
Children in Reception will start to learn Set 1 speed sounds and how to blend them together to read words. They learn them in this order.
When children know these sounds speedily, they will move onto Set 2 and Set 3 sounds.
Some children will also engage in 1:1 Phonics with a member of staff. This maybe if they find a sound particularly tricky or they are learning how to Fred Talk.
What is the Phonics Screening check?
The phonics screening check is taken individually by all children in Year 1 in England, and is usually taken in June. It is designed to give teachers and parents information on how your child is progressing in phonics. It will help to identify whether your child needs additional support at this stage so that they do not fall behind in this vital early reading skill.
There are two sections in this 40-word check and it assesses phonics skills and knowledge learned through Reception and Year 1. Your child will read up to four words per page for their teacher and they will probably do the check in one sitting of about 5-10 minutes. Our children have lots of access to phonics and previous screening checks to make them feel confident on the day.
Book bags
Your child will bring books home inside their book bag. These coloured books have been matched to their colour group in Phonics and allows them to read the sounds that they know. Your child will have read this book at school and will be looking forward to showing you their amazing reading. Please spend some time with your child every evening listening to them read. They will also bring home another book which has the same sounds in and a story book. This story book is for an adult to read to the child. Your child must read their book at home on a night and bring it back to school everyday.
The importance of stories--
Time spent reading together brings so many benefits to your child – and you! Through reading, your child will hear lots of words that they might not be as likely to come across in everyday conversation. They will also develop their listening skills and develop their understanding of how stories work.
Rhythm and rhyme are so important for early language development. There are lots of wonderful books to share together.
Please take advantage of our ‘Story Swap Shop’. Your child can bring an old book of theirs to school and swap it for a new one! You can take part in this as many times as you like.
Encourage your child to talk about the pictures, or to make predictions about what will happen next.
There’s no reason reading should be limited to stories, either – why not encourage your child to recognise and read print when you are out shopping, on the bus or at the park?
Take trips to your local Library!
Top ten tips for reading stories to your child--
https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/media//uploads/downloads/ten_top_tips.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHMl70ZmxIQ
You can also find e-books to match your child's colour book on Oxford Owl--
https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/reading/free-ebooks/
The teaching of phonics is based on the Read, Write, Inc approach. Daily Phonic lessons take place in Foundation Stage and Key Stage One and phonics is an integral part of daily teaching and learning. The phonic sessions consist of review, teach, practice and apply.
Our Phonics aims:
- To deliver high quality, systematic phonic teaching.
- To establish consistent practice, progression and continuity in the teaching and learning of phonics and spelling throughout the school.
- To differentiate phonics and spelling work according to the needs of pupils, so that all pupils are given sufficient challenge at a level at which they can experience success.
- To ensure that the children apply phonic knowledge as their first approach to reading and spelling, with the ultimate goal being automatic and effortless fluent readers and confident writers.
- To ensure that children have opportunities to read texts and words that are within their phonic capabilities as early as possible.
- To encourage the children to attempt to spell words for themselves, within the range of their phonic knowledge, by building an individual repertoire and the confidence and strategies to attempt unfamiliar words.
- To encourage repetition and consolidation, so that spelling becomes automatic.
- To learn that blending and segmenting words are reversible processes.
Phonics
At Laithes, we teach children to read using the Read Write Inc phonics scheme. Children will learn sounds and words. They will learn how to successfully decode using 'Fred Talk'. Fred is a toy frog that we use to engage children in saying the sounds correctly.
There will be a strong focus on Phonics and Reading throughout Early Years and Year 1. Daily, consistent Phonics, will support your child become a successful reader and make them feel confident when taking the Phonics Screening Test at the end of Year 1.
Children in Reception will start to learn Set 1 speed sounds and how to blend them together to read words. They learn them in this order.
When children know these sounds speedily, they will move onto Set 2 and Set 3 sounds.
Some children will also engage in 1:1 Phonics with a member of staff. This maybe if they find a sound particularly tricky or they are learning how to Fred Talk.
What is the Phonics Screening check?
The phonics screening check is taken individually by all children in Year 1 in England, and is usually taken in June. It is designed to give teachers and parents information on how your child is progressing in phonics. It will help to identify whether your child needs additional support at this stage so that they do not fall behind in this vital early reading skill.
There are two sections in this 40-word check and it assesses phonics skills and knowledge learned through Reception and Year 1. Your child will read up to four words per page for their teacher and they will probably do the check in one sitting of about 5-10 minutes. Our children have lots of access to phonics and previous screening checks to make them feel confident on the day.
Book bags
Your child will bring books home inside their book bag. These coloured books have been matched to their colour group in Phonics and allows them to read the sounds that they know. Your child will have read this book at school and will be looking forward to showing you their amazing reading. Please spend some time with your child every evening listening to them read. They will also bring home another book which has the same sounds in and a story book. This story book is for an adult to read to the child. Your child must read their book at home on a night and bring it back to school everyday.
The importance of stories--
Time spent reading together brings so many benefits to your child – and you! Through reading, your child will hear lots of words that they might not be as likely to come across in everyday conversation. They will also develop their listening skills and develop their understanding of how stories work.
Rhythm and rhyme are so important for early language development. There are lots of wonderful books to share together.
Please take advantage of our ‘Story Swap Shop’. Your child can bring an old book of theirs to school and swap it for a new one! You can take part in this as many times as you like.
Encourage your child to talk about the pictures, or to make predictions about what will happen next.
There’s no reason reading should be limited to stories, either – why not encourage your child to recognise and read print when you are out shopping, on the bus or at the park?
Take trips to your local Library!
Top ten tips for reading stories to your child--
https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/media//uploads/downloads/ten_top_tips.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHMl70ZmxIQ
You can also find e-books to match your child's colour book on Oxford Owl--
https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/reading/free-ebooks/
Poetry Time
At Laithes, we love Poetry Time! It helps us build our literacy skills and language development. It helps us to development music skills and a wide range of vocabulary. Most of all, we have so much fun at Poetry time!
Take a look at some of the Poems we have learnt in FS2 -
At Laithes, we love Poetry Time! It helps us build our literacy skills and language development. It helps us to development music skills and a wide range of vocabulary. Most of all, we have so much fun at Poetry time!
Take a look at some of the Poems we have learnt in FS2 -
It is important that when we are saying and reading sounds, we pronounce them
correctly. This makes it easier for your child when they are blending words together.
How do I say the sounds?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkXcabDUg7Q
What is Fred Talk?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEzfpod5w_Q
Blending—Parent Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNyFikwNQTg
Here is some more information about reading at home:
BOOKLET 1 (SET 1)
BOOKLET 2 (SET 2&3)
You can find Read Write Inc on Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/miskin.education/
Take a look at the free e-books for home reading:
http://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/Reading/
Please use the Phonics Flash cards which your child's teacher sends home. Keep using these until your child is super speedy at saying these sounds correctly!
Please check your Seesaw account for updates on Phonics videos which you can play for your child at home.
correctly. This makes it easier for your child when they are blending words together.
How do I say the sounds?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkXcabDUg7Q
What is Fred Talk?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEzfpod5w_Q
Blending—Parent Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNyFikwNQTg
Here is some more information about reading at home:
BOOKLET 1 (SET 1)
BOOKLET 2 (SET 2&3)
You can find Read Write Inc on Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/miskin.education/
Take a look at the free e-books for home reading:
http://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/Reading/
Please use the Phonics Flash cards which your child's teacher sends home. Keep using these until your child is super speedy at saying these sounds correctly!
Please check your Seesaw account for updates on Phonics videos which you can play for your child at home.
