Inspiring Success Reading
The Orchard School
•How do children learn to read?•How to help at home•Questions
Reading
Patience and PracticeUnderstanding & MeaningResilience- Risk takingPredictionOracySuccessEnjoyment, Engagement
The Searchlights model of reading strategies
Text
Knowledge of text
Phonic(sounds
and spelling)
Grammatical knowledge
Word recognition and graphic knowledge
Phonics• 44 Phonemes• Teaching of phonemes is organised in “Phases” 1-6• Children need to tune in to sound,
hear, see, play, write, use them• Model pure sounds• Games• Robot talk• Phoneme frames
“Phonics is the only way of teaching reading”…..or is it?
I take it you already knowOf tough and bough and cough and doughOthers may stumble but not you,On hiccough, thorough, lough and through,Well done! And now you wish perhaps,To learn of less familiar traps.
Beware of heard, a dreadful wordThat looks like beard and sounds like bird,And dead: it’s said like bed, not bead-For goodness sake don’t call it dead!Watch out for meat and great and threat.(They rhyme with suite and straight and debt.)
A moth is not a moth in mother,Nor both in bother, broth in brother,And here is not a match for there, Nor dear and fear for bear and pear,And then there’s done and rose and loseJust look them up- and goose and chooseAnd cork and work, and card and ward,And font and front and word and sword,And do and go and thwart and cart,Come, come, I’ve hardly made a start!
High Frequency Words
• 12 make up 25% of all reading• Instant recognition of whole word rather
than sounding everything out• Games• Spotting words in text• Talking about words• Using them in writing, own book making• Look , Cover, Write, Check
Reading – what children needAttitudes:-Confidence-Resilience- It’s ok to make mistakes and take risks-Enjoyment-Motivation!Skills:-Phonics-Tracking-MemoryKnowledge-Language and Text -High Frequency Words-that “It’s worth it”!Practice!!
Tips for parents• Make it a regular habit- little and often is best• Find a comfortable, quiet place- no distraction• Talk about the book, cover, title, pictures, what might
happen? Ask questions- why? what do you think?• Be PATIENT! Don’t jump in, wait, encourage, support.• PRAISE all attempts- encourage risk taking• Model strategies• Practise listening for, looking for, enjoying and using
sounds- Use the correct, pure sounds• Practise high frequency words• Play games to practise sounds and high frequency
words• Reward time• Read TO your child regularly
Any questions?