F1 Literacy
Early Reading Skills
Reading with children is one of the best ways to get them ready for school. It also helps develop social and emotional skills and helps them grow into a confident learner. Here are a few tips on reading with your child.
- Enjoy sharing books together with your child every day – 10 minutes is all it takes!
- Make sound effects and noises to help bring stories to life.
- Try using different voices for the characters in the story.
- Let brothers and sisters join in and enjoy stories and rhymes together.
- Ask questions when you are reading stories together e.g. What can you see on this page?
- Let your child make stories up by ‘reading’ the pictures and interpreting their version.
- Find a nice quiet place away from noise to read stories.
- Look at the pictures and talk about them, the more you talk together the more words you will learn.
- Encourage your child to ask questions about the story.
- Encourage your child to join in with the repeated refrains in the story? Traditional tales are often filled with them.
- Let your child think of actions that may link with parts of the story.
- Can the children join in with the rhythm patterns in the story.
- Rhyming stories are a good way of encouraging the children to make a link with rhyming words.
- Take trips to the library and allow your child to choose their own stories.
Phonics
In the nursery, phonics is taught on a daily basis. Phonics helps your child to read and spell. Our nursery teaches phase one phonics through the ‘Letters and Sounds’ scheme. Phase one concentrates on developing children’s speaking and listening skills. The seven aspects we cover in phase one are:
http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/phase-1-games.html
Synthetic sounds
It is important, that when teaching your child phonemes (sounds), they are being pronounced as ‘pure’ sounds. The video below will show you how to pronounce them correctly
- Environmental sounds
- Instrumental sounds
- Body sounds
- Rhythm and rhyme
- Alliteration
- Voice sounds
- Oral segmenting and blending.
http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/phase-1-games.html
Synthetic sounds
It is important, that when teaching your child phonemes (sounds), they are being pronounced as ‘pure’ sounds. The video below will show you how to pronounce them correctly
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Literacy (reading) Stay and Play Evaluation
During the Autumn term, F1 held four Literacy Stay and Play sessions for parents. The parents were given a chance to spend time with their children within the setting, alongside observing the class teacher carry out a reading session with the children.
The main aim of the session was to equip the parents with skills and strategies to aid their child’s early reading development. During the session the teacher and TA had an opportunity to share children’s progression and learning with parents/carers.
At the end of the session the N2 children received their ‘Bookstart’ reading packs alongside their F1 reading book; this book is to be changed every Thursday at the beginning of the session.
The main aim of the session was to equip the parents with skills and strategies to aid their child’s early reading development. During the session the teacher and TA had an opportunity to share children’s progression and learning with parents/carers.
At the end of the session the N2 children received their ‘Bookstart’ reading packs alongside their F1 reading book; this book is to be changed every Thursday at the beginning of the session.
