Reading and Phonics Iron Acton Primary School 2020
Aims of the session • Introduce new reading scheme • Discuss how the books can be utilised at home • Discuss how we teach phonics in school • Discuss how phonics can be supported at home
Reading Scheme • Supplied by Big Cat Phonics • In line with the current Ofsted and government requirements • All books sent home are fully decodable and in line with the sounds they are learning • Any common exception words (non-decodable words) are highlighted in the inside front cover, alongside the sounds that are included in the book • There are prompts on the inside covers of each book to aid discussion of the story structure and story.
Reading in School • Children are listened to by teachers and support staff in small reading groups at least once a week • Each book is read 3 times • Books are an integral part of the classroom – the class bookcase in always accessible and children are read to every day • Class books are often used for inspiration in writing and other foundation activities • All children are assessed three times a year using the assessments from the Big Cat Phonics scheme.
Importance of Reading at Home • The school expectation is for each child to read 5 times a week at home • Please write in the yellow reading records every time you read with your child • In Year 1 and 2, a new book will be given on a Monday, with additional books on Wednesday and Friday if needed. These three books can then be re-capped over the weekend • Reception books will be changed as needed • Each book is read three times • First read: decoding words • Second read: reading with meaning • Third read: comprehension – discussing the text or story • A variety of books outside of the school reading scheme is also encouraged to promote a love of reading – it shouldn’t be a chore!
Phonics • Phonics is taught daily • We use a variety of methods, games and activities to help children learn the sounds, e.g. interactive games, songs, flashcards etc. • Reception have a red sound book with their sounds to practice at home • Year 1 and 2 have spelling books with their sounds / words to practice at home.
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Phonics Terminology • Phoneme – the smallest unit of sound in a word, often referred to as a sound • Grapheme – a letter or sequence of letters that represents a phoneme • Blend – squashing the sounds together to make larger units such as syllables or words, e.g. c-a-t = cat • Sound – saying the phoneme that each grapheme represents in order to blend them • Segment – breaking words, or parts of words, into the components of sounds (phonemes), e.g. cat = c-a-t • Digraph – a phoneme that it represented by two letters, e.g. ee • Trigraph – a phoneme that is represented by three letters, e.g. igh • Split digraph – a digraph that is separated within a word, e.g. e-e = theme
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