Phonics and Reading at AP1 Presented by Hannah Lewis and Louise Swift
Aims
How we teach children about sounds in the Early Years Pre-reading skills What we (the teachers) are looking for Teaching Phonics Ideas for you and your child Reading at home
How we teach children about sounds in the Early Years
Focus on hearing Phonemes (Sounds) Environmental/voice/instrumental sounds Rhyme and alliteration
Pre-Reading Skills
All children are different and learn at a different pace Daily exposure to books – children take ownership Familiar, repetitive books allow children to “play at reading” Talking about pictures, guessing what will happen next. Early reading involves a lot of guess work!
What we (the teachers) are looking for Assess using 7 different criteria 1.Understanding 2.Inference 3.Text structure 4.Use of language 5.Writers view point 6.Link to real life 7.Reading strategies
The 3 Billy Goats Gruff – The Movie
Watch this video clip – what areas of reading are these children showing skills in?
1.
Understanding Inference Text structure Use of language Writers view point Link to real life Reading strategies
2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
Teaching Phonics
Background information – what is phonics? Phonemes – the smallest unit of sound in a word e.g c-a-t Graphemes – the letters that represent these sounds. A grapheme could be 1 letter, 2 letters or more! We refer to these as sound buttons
t
ai
igh
Sound talk c-a-t = cat (blending) cat = c-a-t (segmenting) Can you touch your ch-i-n? I spy a c-u-p
Phase 2
Rapid introduction of sounds (one new sound a day)
Reading VC words (it, at, on, in)
Reading CVC words (cat, cup, and, pig)
Using sound buttons Your child will be taught how to pronounce the sounds (phonemes) correctly to make blending easier. We use sound buttons
cat
ch i p
Tricky Words
Not all words can be read using this strategy – it is important not to confuse the children by making them sound out everything no, go, the, I – tricky words learnt by sight, context and plenty of repetition.
Reading at BIS
Use of different reading schemes Big Books Guided reading and individual reading Books sent home at least twice a week in MP1
Book Walk Through
Identifying front and back cover, title and author Looking carefully at the pictures and discussing what can be seen – pictures provide vital clues, please don’t cover the pictures – making up the story before even looking at the words.
High Frequency Words (HFW)
Series of words which appear regularly in early reading books Some are easy and can be segmented into sounds: am, an, went Some are tricky and need to be learnt by sight and repetition like, was.
Reading at home
Share books and love books Once is never enough Dig deeper Distraction free Be patient Me and you One more time with feeling
Ideas for you and your child
Take a look at some of the activities around the room. Remember, reading is NOT just about the written word. Vary reading activities to keep it interesting.
Any Questions?