Reception

Supporting Your

Child With

Reading

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Miss Nicky Marrable – YR Lead

Reception Teaching Staff

Miss Catia Almeida / Miss Nicky Marrable

Mrs Paula Holmes– Reading Lead 

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Our Phonics

Programme

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At Brookfield Primary Academy,we are excited to be introducing Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised to deliver daily phonics lessons from Nursery to Year 1.

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• Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised is a complete systematic synthetic phonics programme (SSP) developed for schools by schools.

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• Based on the original Letters and Sounds, but extensively revised to provide a complete teaching programme meeting all the expectations of the National Curriculum, the Ofsted Deep Dive into reading and preparing your children to go beyond the expectations of the Phonics Screening Check.

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Jargon

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GPC – This stands for grapheme phoneme

correspondence (the sound-letter relationship)

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Phoneme – smallest unit of sound

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Grapheme – written sound (letter/or group of

Letters used to represent a particular phoneme

when writing)

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Digraph – two letters making one phoneme - ay

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Trigraph – three letters making one phoneme – igh

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Blending – combining individual phonemes into one word, working from left to right

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Segmenting – identify each individual phoneme in a word, working left to right

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Correct articulation

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• Letter sounds should be clear and sharp

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• Watch the articulation video to check the correct pronunciation

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Our Phonics

Programme

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What phonics looks like in Reception 

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• Daily 10-minute phonics lesson – extending to 20 minutes as the year progresses.
• 3 Reading Practice sessions per week (beginning when children can blend) to apply phonics knowledge to reading. 
• Daily individual or group keep up sessions for anyone who is falling behind.
• Fully decodable reading books to read at home, these are in place of our previous colour book band system.

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Our Phonics

Programme

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A typical phonics lesson in Reception follows a three part pattern:

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1. Revisit and Review
1. Review phase 2 GPCs learned so far

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• Teach and Practise
• Pronunciation phrase 
• Initial and end sounds – what's in the box? 
• Teach a new GPC and mnemonic
• Formation phrase and catchphrase for digraphs
• Practise oral blending with words containing new GPC.
• Teacher led blending words and independent reading 
• Teach a new tricky word

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Our Phonics

Programme

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3. Practise and Apply

• Oral blending game

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Progressing to reading and writing words and sentences. 

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Assessment

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Ongoing Assessment

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Daily (formative) assessment

• Teachers and support staff continuously assess children in all phonics lessons and identify those who may need additional support.
• Children in need of additional support receive either a group or 1:1 catch up session later that day 
• To reinforce a particular GPC or tricky word, staff may pop a sticker onto a child’s jumper. All staff throughout the school know the symbolism of this and will stop them to practise. This also gives parents a cue for what to practise at home.

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Assessment

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Ongoing Assessment

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Weekly assessment

• Every Friday there is a review lesson where all new learning is consolidated. Teachers and support staff use this sessions to inform their keep up sessions.

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Assessment

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Ongoing Assessment

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Half termly assessment

• At the end of each half term there is an assessment week. During this week teachers carry out an assessment of all newly learnt GPCs and tricky words. This is carried out individually.

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Teaching of

Reading

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Reading Practice Groups

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Three times weekly reading practice

• Each week children will be taught explicit reading skills in a small group with a trained member of staff.

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• Each session will have a particular focus
• Session 1 – decoding - looking for digraphs/tricky words
• Session 2 – prosody - reading with meaning, emphasis and intonation
• Session 3 – comprehension- understanding the text

Teaching of Reading

Reading Practice Groups

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Three times weekly reading practice

• Teachers will use their assessments to group children based on the GPCs they are confident with.
• Each group reads a book which only contains the GPCs that they have been taught and can use confidently to blend and decode.
• The same book is used in all 3 reading sessions during the week.
• Staff will sign reading diaries, or post comments on to Seesaw after each guided reading session.

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Teaching of Reading

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1-1 Reading

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• A small number of children will read with an adult at school on a 1-1 basis each week. They will read the book from their group practice session.
• All children will read on a 1-1 basis with an adult during the final week of each half term. There will not be group practice sessions during this week.
• Staff will record in reading record books when reading 1-1 with children.

Reading at

home

Reading at home

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Fully decodable books

• On a Friday children will be assigned their reading practice book to read. This is the book that they will have read 3 times and they should then be able to read at 95% fluency at home.
• This book will be assigned to their Harper Collins account.

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Decodable

Books

Reading at home

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Fully decodable books

• Children will also bring home an additional decodable book.
• These will be carefully matched to their current phonic knowledge.

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Phonics practise/Tricky words

• We would recommend that one day a week, children practise quickly recognising the sounds they have been taught & reading tricky words. These have already been sent home via Seesaw and we will continue to update these weekly. 

Top Tips

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Our top tips for reading success

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Although your child will be taught to read at school, you can have a huge impact on their reading journey by continuing their practice at home.

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• Listen to them read their book and remember to give them lots of praise.
• Celebrate their success.
• If they can’t read a word, read it to them
• After they have finished talk about the book together.

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Top Tips for

decodable books

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Our top tips for reading success

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Getting the most out of decodable books

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• If your child is reading it with little help, please don’t worry that it's too easy. Your child needs to develop fluency and confidence in reading.
• Use the Reading at Home box inside the front cover for tips to get the most out of each book.

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Wordless

Books

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Wordless books 

• Recognise there are no right or wrong ways to read a wordless book
• One of the wonderful benefits of using a wordless book is how each child creates their own story
• Spend time looking at the cover and talking about the books title. 
• Based on those two things make a few predictions about the story. 
• Take a 'picture walk' through the pages of the book. 
• Look carefully at the expressions on the characters faces, the setting and the colours they can see. 

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Wordless

Books

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Wordless books 

• Talk to each other about what you see as these conversations will enrich the story telling. 
• Model telling your own story by looking at the pictures then let your child have a go. 
• Use different voices for characters, add sound effects and use interesting words in your version of the book. 
• Encourage your child to 'read' you the book with their storytelling. Focus on the words your child uses when they tell the story. 
• Help your child expand their sentences or thoughts by encouraging to add information from the details in pictures. 
• Encourage more detail by asking questions like who, what, where, when and why.

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Wordless

Books

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Finish your wordless book session by asking a few simple questions …

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• Which pictures helped you tell the story? 
• What was your favourite part of the story? 
• Have you had an experience like the one in your story? 
• Sharing wordless books is a terrific way to build important literacy skills including literacy, vocabulary, comprehension and an increased awareness of how stories are built as the story-teller often uses a beginning, middle and end format. 
• For a book with no words, you'll be surprised at the talking you will do and the fun you will have!

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Sharing

Books

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Sharing book

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Sharing books are to be read together

• Each week children will have the opportunity to choose a book from our library.
• Your child will not be able to read this on their own and it is for you both to read and enjoy together.
• Reading for pleasure is crucial in developing a life-long love of reading.

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Top Tips for

sharing books

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Our top tips for reading success

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Getting the most out of the sharing books

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• Read it to or with them
• Talk about the pictures
• Enjoy the story
• Predict what might happen next
• Use different voices for the characters
• Explore the facts in a non-fiction book
• Reading the same book multiple times is fine! Children love to re-read ☺ 
• The main thing is to have fun

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ANY

QUESTIONS

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