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Learning to Read. How do children learn to read? How can we as parents support the process?. Attitudes to reading. “I’ve had a hard day and now she expects me to work at this.” “This doesn’t look exciting enough to make me want to decode it.” “I wish I’d stayed at home and watched TV.”
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Learning to Read How do children learn to read? How can we as parents support the process?
Attitudes to reading • “I’ve had a hard day and now she expects me to work at this.” • “This doesn’t look exciting enough to make me want to decode it.” • “I wish I’d stayed at home and watched TV.” • “You read it to me.”
TEXT Grammatical knowledge Phonic knowledge (sounds and spelling) Knowledge of context Word recognition and graphic knowledge
Word recognition processes Poor Word recognition processes Good Poor Language comprehension processes Language comprehension processes Good
Phonics is not enough Once Sea/see Saw (Hence ‘tricky words’)
Reading: contextual clues • The bandage was wound around the wound • The wind was too strong to wind the sail • I spent last evening evening out a pile of dirt • The Reading Reading Centre
Backwards reading:What happens when we read? • Finger pointing • Hesitancy • Re-reading of words • Sounding out of letters • Sentences not fitting onto one line – hard to follow sense from one line to another • Reversal of letters/words
Stages along the way • Developing listening skills • Awareness of rhyme • Sentence segmentation • Syllable segmentation • Rime and analogy • Alliteration and onset • Awareness of the position of vowel sounds • Individual sounds (phonemes) – decoding & encoding
Pure Sounds • C – a – t • C – a – n – d
Phun with phonemes • Segmentation: sounds in pot? • Deletion: take h from hat • Matching: do fan and fist start with the same sound? • Counting: how many sounds in cake? • Substitution: change h in hat to s • Blending: put b-e-d together • Rhyming: how many words rhyme with eat?
To summarise…. • Share books – not just school reading books – as often as possible • Play rhyming games to support phonic training/auditory awareness • Ban the schwa! (www.focusonphonics.co.uk) • If your child doesn’t want to read to you, read to him/her • Avoid showing anxiety • Talk around the text – reading for meaning • Keep it fun