Transcript Literacy Information Night for Parents:

Edgeworth Public School
Literacy
Information Night
for Parents:
Tonight will be aimed at providing
parents/carers with information and free
resources to help improve their child’s
understanding of literacy.
Information will be presented by Craig
Atkins, Jessica Garvey, Jackie Howard and
Tebani Weibler.
Please help yourself to tea, coffee and refreshments, toilets are in the
office to your right.
All stages from K-6 will be covered:
ES1- Jessica Garvey
S1- Jackie Howard
S2- Tebani Weibler
S3- Craig Atkins
Three Strands of
English
Talking and Listening
Reading
Writing
http://k6.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/files/english/k6_engl
ish_syl.pdf
All students come to school with unique
interests and talents
Questions?
Any questions you have can be
written on the post it notes and
placed on the whiteboard.
Throughout the evening we will
answer each question.
Strategies for developing
reading skills in Kindergarten
children:
•Sounds
•Phonics
•Phonemic awareness
•Sight Words
Why is reading so
important?
“As a parent, you are your child's first and
most important teacher. When you help
your child learn to read, you are opening the
door to a world of books and learning.”
http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/document/brochure/earlyreading/index.html
Reading with Kindergarten
children:
Tip 2 – Make reading fun and exciting
Tip 3 – Read to your child everyday.
Tip 4 – Set an example- Discuss reading- read in front of
your child
Tip 5 – Talk about books- talk about the cover, pictures,
why we read etc.
Tip 6 – Listen to your child read
Tip 7 – Show that you value your child's efforts and priase
them for reading and having a go.
Reading is ongoing:
Keep reading to your child even after he or
she has learned to read. By reading stories
that will interest your child but that are above
his or her reading level, you can stretch your
child's understanding and keep alive the
magic of shared reading.
Making literacy fun!
Utilise the computer
and internet in an
effective and engaging
way!
Early Stage 1 and Stage 1 Online Games:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saF3-f0XWAY&feature=channel
English
Phonics and phonemic awareness.
http://www.starfall.com/n/level-k/index/load.htm?f 
Reading stories and Rhyming words.
http://www.starfall.com/n/level-a/learn-to-read/load.htm?f
Reading: Songs and stories.
http://www.kindersite.org/Directory/DirectoryFrame.htm
Spelling.
http://pbskids.org/games/spelling.html
Descriptions.
http://pbskids.org/arthur/games/effectivedetective/effectivedetective.html
Reading-stories from different cultures.
http://pbskids.org/games/reading.html
Magnetic letters
http://www.bigbrownbear.co.uk/magneticletters/index.html
Phonics, writing and rhyming words.
http://pbskids.org/games/literacy.html
Vocabulary.
http://pbskids.org/games/vocabulary.html
Upper and lower case letters
http://www.abcya.com/alphabet_match_K1_1.htm
Comprehension, phonics and spelling.
http://funschool.kaboose.com/arcade/language/index.html
Story writing and recounts.
http://www.seussville.com/games_hb/storymaker/story_maker.html
Reading and Writing
http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks1literacy.html
Letters and words
http://www.earobics.com/gamegoo/games/alien/ashlo.html
Stories- A-Z
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/stories/atoz/a
Guided Reading
http://www.roythezebra.com/guided-reading-story.html
All literacy strands
http://www.roythezebra.com/reading-games-word-level.html
Alphabet
http://www.teacherled.com/resources/alphabet/alphabetbook2load.html
Sounds
http://www.bigbrownbear.co.uk/demo/count.htm
Sight words
http://www.bigbrownbear.co.uk/demo/phonemeJigsaw.htm
Stories
http://pbskids.org/lions/stories/
Punctuation-full stops etc.
http://www.roythezebra.com/reading-games/full-stop-beginner-1.html
Phonics- phonemic awareness
http://www.childu.com/sample_act/reading1_2/LA1RA01b_phonics.swf
Phonemic awareness
http://www.starfall.com/
Nouns and adjectives.
http://www.funbrain.com/brain/ReadingBrain/Games/Game.html?GameName=MadLibsAlphabet&Brain=reading&GameNumber=4&Color=FFFFFF
Alphabet songs.
http://www.mrsjonesroom.com/songs/alphlist.html#alph
Nursery rhymes and stories.
http://www.speakaboos.com/stories/nursery-rhymes
Words and letters.
http://www.speakaboos.com/games/word-search
Sight Words.
http://www.storyit.com/wgames/wordsearch/sightwords.html
Rhyming words
http://www.storyit.com/wgames/oddoutwf.htm
Sight Words.
http://www.storyit.com/wgames/wordblocks.htm
Writing- all text types
http://www.writingfun.com/writingfun2010.html
All literacy strands
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks1bitesize/literacy/ 
TRIVIA TIME
What is the
average amount
of words we can
read in 1
minute???
Reading and Spelling:
* Literacy and its
integration within Human
Society and its
Environment.
Community Text:
Toy catalogues.
Cartoons from
newspapers.
Food cartons and
catalogues.
Let’s Play!
Spelling Bingo!
Noughts and Crosses!
XOXO
XOXO
Writing sentences:
 Simple sentence- contains a subject and a verb, and it
expresses a complete thought.
Eg. Some students like to exercise in the mornings.
 Compound sentence- contains two independent clauses
joined by a conjunction.
Eg. I tried to speak Spanish, and my friend tried to speak
English.
Sentences continued
 Complex sentence- Contain an ‘independent’ clause that
combines with one or more ‘dependent’ clauses using a
conjunction.
Eg. The students are studying because they have a test
tomorrow.
 http://www.eslbee.com/sentences.htm
Grammar
 Verbs
 Nouns
 Adjectives
 Conjunctions
Copacabana-Website and glossary.
Sentence building:
Game!
Comprehension:
Here, Hidden and Head Questions
Here Questions- ‘The answer is here’
Hidden Questions- answer by using
clues in the text combined with
knowledge you already have
Head Questions- answers can be
found in your head by thinking about
them
Talking and Listening – one of the 3 key components of Literacy and often
the importance of this strand can be left behind.
Think about this – you can’t actually write
anything if you can’t say it or speak about it!!
Activity – a good one for your listening skills and short term memories
http://www.123listening.com/christmas.php
Ideas & strategies
- making appointments over the phone, initiating
and concluding the conversation, ordering food.
- asking question in shops about products,
- preparing mock programs e.g. Weather: use of
technical language
- mock job interviews.
Relating literacy to real life:
 Newspapers
 Magazines
 Magazines that relate to students’
interests e.g. Sports, Movies etc.
Ideas & Strategies
- Sending and receiving emails, interpreting diagrams,
graphs, charts, photos.
- Read texts on a variety of topics – newspaper,
magazines and white out words and get students to
predict what words might go in there.
- Read texts – you create here, hidden, head
questions and vice versa.
- Locating grammar in articles, books. Locate and
highlight/write in different colours .
- Advertisements: identifying the purpose and
audience of that particular advertisement/text?
- Reading to you, what pace are they reading at?
Are they pausing? Expression? What sort of text is
it? Can you model the reading for them?
- Dictionary and thesaurus use. Example –
Weekender puzzle .
- Analysing texts, consider events from each
characters point of view e.g. Mind map
- Do you travel a lot? Reading and understanding
signs, assist with spelling strategies to spell names
of places and incorporate mathematics –
calculating distance.
ACTIVITY – Look at the following image!!!
Activity: Read and plan in 5 minutes.
http://www.naplan.edu.au/tests/naplan_2010_tests__page.html
Writing Fun http://www.writingfun.com/
- Read a text, how can it be produced differently? Can you
re-write it differently?
- Writing emails to pen friends, friends, another family
member.
- Write the shopping list, read the items on grocery items.
- Select a variety of images (one at a time) and students
write a story about it e.g. Narrative
- Dictate a text to them, get them to edit before publishing.
Publish with a picture, clipart or a picture from the Internet.
- Recognising the importance of correct punctuation in text
e.g. job application.
- Copacabana
Get smart, interactive games and
activities.
http://www.copacabanap.schools.nsw.edu.au/Get_Smart.
htm
- Edublogs
http://sportsman.edublogs.org/
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Parents!!!
BLOGGING!