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New Christ Church Phonics Information for Parents

Here at New Christ Church we use a programme called ‘Read Write Inc.’ You may here the children refer to this as ‘Miskin’ Ruth Miskin is the specialist who advises the Government and devised the programme.

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Why Read Write Inc. Phonics?

• • • Tried and tested over many years Systematic and structured results in rapid teaching and learning of sounds & blending Early success in reading means that, importantly and simply, when children know these sounds well and they can blend, they read books that are carefully matched to the sounds they know. Which means that children are successful from the very beginning! • Training and ongoing staff development 4/26/2020

What is Read Write Inc Phonics?

 A rapid

Learn to read

programme so children… 

Read to learn

for the rest of their lives 4/26/2020

Who is it for?

• Four-year-olds plus • Older children who need to ‘catch-up’ • Children new to English 4/26/2020

How does it work?

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Children:

Learn 44 sounds and matching letters • Learn to blend sounds to read words • Read lots of specially written books This is decoding 4/26/2020

How does it work?

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Children:

Talk a lot about what they have read to show they understand • Listen to and discuss other ideas to deepen understanding 4/26/2020 This is comprehending

Sounds

All words are made up of sounds – we use pure sounds – ‘m’ not muh, ‘s’ not ‘suh’ In English there are 44 4/26/2020

Graphemes

-A grapheme is a sound written down - using the 26 letters of the alphabet to represent the 44 different sounds ( e.g ‘ph’ is another way of writing the ‘f’ sound) -English has more than 150 graphemes A complex code!!!

We will teach the 100 most commonly used graphemes for the 44 sounds in a systematic way) 4/26/2020

Chart

• This chart on the next slide shows the most usual graphemes for the 44 sounds • Each box shows you the different way of making the same sound. 4/26/2020

The complex English alphabetic code

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Children learn a simple code first

If English had a simple code…

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…spelling and reading would be much easier!

If this is ‘

play’

then this should be.. mayk trayn cafay strayt wayt brayk

green

dreem kee hee happee

light

kight fligh Igh igh tigh

blow

smowk flowt gow mowst

moon

broot bloo groo 4/26/2020 But of course its

not

like this!!

As they learn they graphemes, children will be taught to ‘blend’ to read and spell words.

• • • c-a-t ch-a-t l-igh-t c-r-a-sh

There is an audio guide on the OUP website which gives guidance on pure pronunciation http://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/home/reading-site/expert-help/ruth-miskins video-page?region=uk Letter names are not the important part it is the sound the letters make (without the ‘uh’ on the end) Sound are taught in sets using a multi-sensory approach The sets are described on the following pages.

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Consonants: stretchy f l m n r s v z sh th ng nk Consonants: bouncy b c d g h j p qu t w x y ch k Vowels: bouncy a e i o u Vowels: stretchy ay ee igh ow oo

oo

ar or air ir ou oy

Set 1 sounds Set 2 sounds

b f ff ph bb a oo u_e ue ew l ll le c k ck ch d dd

oo

e ea m mm mb ar g gg i n nn kn or oor ore aw au h r rr wr j o g ge dge pp u s ss se c ce p qu v ve t z zz s w sh ti ci x th y tt wh air are ir ur er ng nk ch tch ou ow ay a_e ai oy oi ee y ea e ire igh i_e ie i ear ow o_e oa o ure

Fred...

• Fred helps children learn to read Fred can only talk in sounds...

(Fred can only say c_a_t, he can’t say cat) We call this Fred Talk 4/26/2020

Fred...

• If children understand Fred they can orally blend – this is essential for reading • • Fred says sh_o_p, d_ay, s_p_l_a_sh etc. We can say this is ‘Shop’ ‘day’ ‘splash’This is oral blending If children know the graphemes when trying to read the word ‘stamp’ they can Fred talk it to read and then blend s_t_a_m_p 4/26/2020 Copyright Ruth Miskin Literacy

Fred...

• Fred helps children learn to spell too! Children convert words into sounds They press the sounds on to their fingers...

We call this Fred Fingers 4/26/2020

How can you help your child?

By...

• using pure sounds • knowing the graphemes • understanding how ‘Fred’ helps with reading and spelling

And...

• By having fun with Fred Talk at home!

“What a tidy r-oo-m!” “Where’s your c-oa-t?” “Time for b-e-d!” back, head, tum, leg, hand, foot, knee coat, hat, scarf, zip, sock, glove run, walk, skip, hop, fast, slow, stop, shop red, blue, green, black, knife, fork, spoon, plate, bowl, pan bread, cheese, meat, soup, jam, cake

Use only single syllable words (no Fred Talking multi-syllabic words) and only the last word in a sentence or it gets very silly! E.g. P_u_t o_n y_our b_l_ue c_oa_t (you’ll never get out!). 4/26/2020

And...

• By reading your child lots of lovely stories and asking lots of questions!

Use these prompts to help you: What do you think happens next?

What is happening?

What is the character saying?

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What do you think that character is feeling now?

And...

• By talking to your child as much as possible and ‘feeding’ them new and different words: “Let’s eat our lunch now.” “Let’s munch our lunch now.” “Let’s scoff our lunch now.” • “Let’s devour our lunch now!” A rich vocabulary is essential for high levels of comprehension. The more words your child has in his/her head when they come to school, the quicker they will understand when they read

And...

• By enriching conversations through description:

“Look at that rain. It looks like little diamonds sparkling on the window pane!”

• By having fun with words and language.

“I’m as hot as a spud in a cooking pot!”

• By praising your child for using new words or interesting phrases 4/26/2020

And...

• • By having a look at the parents’ information for tips and resources for supporting your child at home: https://global.oup.com/education/content/primary/series/rwi/p arents/ (RWI resources are published by Oxford University Press) 4/26/2020

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Thank you...

Happy reading!

Reading levels

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Set 1 sounds and blending

Fiction and non fiction texts Green, Purple, Pink: NC level 1c 1b •

Set 1 & 2 sounds

Fiction and non fiction texts Pink, Orange: NC level 1b – 1a Fiction and non fiction texts Yellow: NC level 1a – 2c Fiction and non fiction texts Blue: NC level 2b •

Set 1, 2, 3 sounds

Fiction and non fiction texts Blue, Grey: NC level 2b – 2a+ 4/26/2020