St. Wulstan’s Catholic Primary SchoolInformation Evening
15th October 2014
Literacy
Reading
Writing
Speaking and Listening
Literacy
What we aim to do:
Encourage children to read widely and with enjoyment by introducing them to a wide range of top quality children’s fiction and non-fiction.
Foster the continuing development of the skills necessary to read and understand a variety of texts.
Encourage children to become critical and responsive readers.
Develop children’s skills in locating, interpreting and applying information from non-fiction texts.
Continue the development of children’s word awareness-the study of word structures, word usage and spelling patterns.
Aid the development of writing skills and oral language skills by using text as a stimulus..
Reading
Oxford Reading TreeKey Stage 1Key Stage 2Free /Independent readersLibrary time
Reading Scheme
Book Banding
AF1 Use a range of strategies including accurate decoding of text, to read for meaning
AF2 Understand, describe, select or retrieve information, events or ideas from texts and use quotation and reference to text
AF3 Deduce, infer or interpret information, events or ideas from texts
AF4 Identify and comment on the structure and organisation of texts, including grammatical and presentational features at text level
AF5 Explain and comment on writers' uses of language, including grammatical and literary features at word and sentence level
AF6 Identify and comment on writers' purposes and viewpoints and the overall effect of the text on the reader
AF7 Relate texts to their social, cultural and historical contexts and literary traditions
Reading Assessment Focuses
Questions for Lower KS2
Where does the story take place? Is the setting important or could the story have taken place anywhere?
What do you think will happen next?Can you retell the story in your own words?What do you think…in the story feels?What if…?Can you think of a different story ending?Why do you think … did that?Which character did you like most/least?
Why?
How do you know who is telling this story?When is the story set? What clues are thereto confirm this?What words or phrases have been used to
develop an atmosphere of suspense/mystery?
Which character did you find the most interesting?
Why?Can you tell from the opening paragraph
what kind of story you are reading?
Questions for Upper KS2
Summarise what has happened in a show. Predict what is going to happen next
(giving evidence), Describe the setting of the show. Identify the main ideas. Describe characters (guess who).
When they are watching TV, ask them
to:
Discuss the blurb. Predict the story Discuss any other books by this author Read reviews Discuss the opening scenes of books How does the author draw you into the
story?
Mistakes will be made in initial choice of books. This is an important stage for the children to learn how to choose their own reading material.
Free/Independent readers
Daily "Guided
Reading" in the classroom
Hear your children read at home
Discuss the story with your children
Visit the library/bookshops
Have somewhere quiet to read
Bedtime story/Reading aloud
Share a book with your children
Be a role model
What you can do at home to help your child:
In primary schools, children who write proficiently are always readers. It is impossible to write a text type without being familiar with the language patterns.
Children who are read to regularly before coming to school are the most likely to have success.
Children who read for pleasure are also most likely to succeed (across the curriculum).
Reading
Boys’ Writing
FemaleDolls Story
CompletionPeople
Collaborative
MaleCar
ActionImmediate
ObjectsHierarchical
Instead of think write
Try think communicate write
Writing
If a child cannot say it he cannot
write it!
Big Write
Talk Homework
Afternoon support sessions
Rapid Read / Write
Literacy support groups –Teacher
KS2 Phonic Groups
Support
SPaG
Complete the sentence below with a contraction that makes sense.
If you give me the recipe, ____________ buy the ingredients on the way home.
Staff are available to answer questions.
Thank you for coming to tonight’s session.
Thank you for listening!