Foundation Stage Literacy Workshop

What we do in school and how you can support your child at home

AimsTo explain our method of teaching early

literacy skillsTo show you some of our new books and

phonics resourcesTo highlight the ways you can support

your child’s development in literacy at home

MethodsPhonicsShared, guided and independent reading

Opportunities to practise these skills in play

Importance of Talk

“In a multimedia world adults have less time to talk and listen to children, but children need to talk to learn and grow.”

“Reading and writing float on a sea of talk…” Sue Palmer

Importance of Talk

“..the more words children know and understand before they start on a systematic programme of phonic work the better they are to succeed......a broad and rich language experience for children ..is the hallmark of good early years practice.”

The Rose Review

Phonics is:

Phonics = +Skills of

segmentation and blending

Knowledge of the Alphabetic code

Phonics

PhonicsLetters and sounds6 phasesIn Nursery we teach Phase 1 In Reception we teach Phase 2 to

Phase 4

PHASE 1

•Aspect 1 Environmental Sounds •Aspect 2 Instrumental Sounds •Aspect 3 Body Percussion •Aspect 4 Rhythm and Rhyme •Aspect 5 Alliteration •Aspect 6 Voice Sounds •Aspect 7 Blending and Segmenting

Phase 1ListeningDistinguishing different sounds in the

environmentExperimenting with soundsAwareness of rhymeBeginning to orally blend and segment

phonemes

Instrumental Sounds

Matching Sounds

Listening

Letter soundsPronunciation

letters and sounds phoneme pronunciation.wmv

Phase 2 & 3Reception ~ we start to teach the letters

themselves (called graphemes)

Order ~ single letter sounds~ digraphs - qu ch sh th ng ay ee igh ow oo oo ar

or air ir ou oy ire ear ure

Phase 2

Only begins after the child can blend and segment

Children begin to learn the first representation of phonemes and how to write simple CVC words

The phonemes are learnt in a specific order (not the order of the alphabet)

The sounds of spoken English

44 sounds or ‘phonemes’ 19 – vowel sounds 25 – consonant sounds Phoneme – smallest unit of sound in a word We focus on the sound of the letter and not

on the letter name.

Phonemes

How many phonemes are there in the following words? top scan shower fire bird fish high chair

Unlocking the codeIt is easy to forget how complicated the

process of learning to read is

Unlocking the Code

Unlocking the Code

Unlocking the Code

Teaching reading in schoolIndividual reading

Group or guided reading

Simple View of Reading

Speaking and listening MUST come first

Guided Reading

Books and resources

New books and resources

Relates to phases of Letters and Sounds

WritingNursery

Mark-making Watching adults model Learning to write their name

ReceptionMark-makingWatching adults modelBeginning to use phonic knowledge to writeCorrect letter formation

Mark makingUsing any writing implements, including fingers in sand,

bubbles or shaving foamUsing large painting brushes and water on the walls

outsideUsing any forms of paper or otherProviding opportunities for ‘real’ writing: shopping lists,

menus, stories, emails, labelling and signing picturesTeaching correct pencil grip

Things you can do at homeRead to your children as regularly as possibleTake them to the libraryModel the enjoyment of books and other written

materialsSing lots of Nursery and action rhymesPlay listening gamesEncourage all forms of mark-makingNot rushing them!