Transcript Curriculum evening for new parents.

Curriculum afternoon for
new parents.
How do we teach your children
to read, write and communicate
successfully?
Speaking and listening.
You might think “my child doesn’t need to
be taught to speak. The problem is getting
them to be quiet.” But there are actually a
lot of skills that we hope to develop in your
child’s first year at school.
Speaking.
The EYFS is a play based curriculum.
There’s a lot of research to show that the
language children use in play is far richer
than that they use in more formal
situations.
How do children develop their
speaking skills in school?
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In the role play and small world play areas
children use language to imagine and recreate
roles and experiences.
Knowledgeable adults help extend their
language in these play situations.
During a plan/do/review process children learn
to explain, and clarify their ideas and feelings.
Remodelling and extending encourages children
to talk in complete sentences and to develop
their vocabulary.
Stories, songs and rhymes are all important.
How can you help?
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Make time to talk to your child every day. It
might be when you sit around the table to eat in
the evening. Or when you are playing Lego. Or
you might get out their Barbies or Power
Rangers and enjoy some pretend play.
Even if you are really busy try to avoid this
turning into a list of instructions.
Specific skills :
Modelling how to extend their sentence not
simply one word answers.
Quiet reminders not to shout.
Reminders not to interrupt.
Listening.
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Children need to learn the kind of
behaviours that a good listener shows.
-Sitting still
-Sitting quietly
-Looking at the person who’s talking
-Trying to remember what the speaker
said
-Not interrupting
How do we develop listening skills
in school?
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Carpet sessions which are initially kept
short
Circle games such as pass the whisper.
Talking to a partner and remembering
what they have said.
Musical games- copying patterns, using
different voices.
Using Signalong to support
comprehension.
Reading.
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I will be talking about what your child will do
in their first few years at school.
Children develop at different rates based on
gender, previous experience and age.
Some children will be confident readers by
the end of their Reception year. Others will
be just beginning to read independently.
Others will not be reading at all but will take
off in year 1. All three of these stages are
perfectly normal.
4 main skills that we want
children to develop.
1. Love of books. Try to read a bedtime
story every evening and make that story
time a special, calm, cosy time.
2.Knowing how books work. Which way up
the book goes, how to turn the pages
carefully. Predict what might happen
next. How do the characters feel?
3.Letter recognition.
4.Phonic skills
Letter Recognition.
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We teach the children the 26 letters of the
alphabet and also some digraphs and
trigraphs. e.g ch, ee, ear, air.
We use both Jolly Phonics and Letterland to
teach the sounds. We follow the government’s
own Letters and Sounds programme alongside
this.
We have a short daily phonic lesson and
children take home the new sounds as they
are introduced in their Sound Book.
Phonic Skills.
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Children need to be able to blend (put
sounds together) to make words.
Some children, especially the oldest
ones, come to school able to do this but
most don’t. It takes a lot of practise
and really good listening skills.
Reading Development.
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1. Child knows and sounds out simple cvc
words but can’t hear the word. c-a-t=
dog
2. Child can hear the word if an adult
sounds it out.
3. Child can sound the word out and hear
it independently.
4. Blending has become so fast and
automatic that a child looks at a word
and says what it says.
Tricky words.
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Some words cannot be sounded out
easily. These are known as Tricky words.
E.g the, come.
When learning to read these words it
helps to look at the regular part, the
letters that make the sounds we would
expect and then to look at the tricky
bit.
How can you help?
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Practise their Sound Book for a short time each
day.
Don’t use it as a test but say the sounds
together.
Remember to sound digraphs and trigraphs as a
unit not individual sounds. E.g ch-i-n not c-h-i-n
or h-air not h-a-i-r.
Point out letters and sounds in the environment.
Play games such as I Spy.
When you get them, practise blending the words
in the packets.
Writing.
There are 4 main skills.
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1. Letter formation.
2. Segmenting words. (robot talking)
3.Understanding how to write a
sentence.
4.Seeing themselves as writers.
How do we teach Letter
Formation?
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We develop the fine motor skills needed for
writing through a range of activities. E.g
threading, using clothes pegs, popping bubble
wrap, painting, posting objects…
We practise letter shapes emphasising anti
clockwise and vertical strokes and a correct
tripod grip. It is important to develop a correct
grip right from the start. Again clothes pegs
are useful!
We develop gross motor skills (strength in the
shoulders) through climbing, throwing and all
large scale movements.
Segmenting.
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We need to be able to segment or robot
talk words in order to spell words we
don’t know. Night= n-igh-t
Understanding
how to write a sentence.
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Deciding what to say before writing it.
Where to start the sentence.
If you can’t spell the word sound it out. What
sounds do I need? How do I write those sounds?
Leave a finger space between each word.
Where do I go when I get to the end of the line?
Put a full stop at the end of the sentence.
Read the sentence back through to check it makes
sense.
Seeing themselves as writers.
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Children need to write for a range of
purposes:
Letters, lists, cards, signs, stories,
instructions.
How can you help?
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Encourage a correct pencil grip when you see
your child holding felt pens, paint brushes etc.
Try a clothes peg if they find this hard.
When writing letter shapes encourage
anticlockwise and vertical strokes.
Let your child see you write.
When your child brings home a Writing Book
make time to help them with this.
Later in the year when some of the children
will be bringing home dictations you will need
to talk them through this.
Finally!
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Don’t worry! Your child will learn to
read, write, and be an effective
communicator.
You can come in to see me for ideas
whenever you feel you need to.