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INSPIRE WORKSHOP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J2Ddf_0O
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What will you see today?
• Phonics
• How we teach reading through the Early Years curriculum areas.
Physical Development – children reading simple instructions to make a skeleton!
Creative development – Children will be using paint, pasta, straws to create
their own skeleton. Children will be reading labels to find out what body parts
they need!
Supporting
Reading at Home
Why is daily reading at home
important?
A recent world wide research project found
that:
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active parental involvement at the beginning
of school was a significant trigger for
developing children's reading skills that would
carry through until they were teenagers.
what was important was that parents read
books regularly with their children - such as
several times a week - and that they talked
about what they were reading together
What you can do to support your child at
home…
• Spend 10 minutes a day reading with your child. Talk about
the pictures and characters and make up your own stories.
• Talk about the phonemes in the book and explore tricky
words, trying to make clear which letters make which sounds.
• Make a special place to keep reading books from school,
books borrowed from the library and books bought as
presents. It will show how important reading is to you.
• Look at brochures and catalogues together.
• Look at newspapers together and point out more unusual
words.
• Make a word box and put in new words your child has learnt.
• Let your child see you reading and talk about what you like
and don’t like reading.
What you can do to support your child at home…
• Create a collage of the alphabet together by cutting up old
newspapers and magazines.
• Label familiar objects around the house with post-it notes or
signs.
• Have a longer reading session together. Get your child to
choose a selection of their favourite books. You could use a
story CD/i-tunes download on your phone/ipad/kindle.
• Create ‘My Book about Everything’ with your child. It will get
bigger as they do. Include photographs of the family, ‘colour’
pages on which you stick things of one colour cut out of
magazines, your child’s drawings and so on.
• Get your child to retell a favourite picture book in their own
words.
• Use pop-up or lift-the-flap books to get even reluctant
readers interested!
How can you select high quality ‘real books?
• Look at the ‘Phonics Book List’. Please see
handout!
• Ask your local librarian for recommendations
• Look at past winners of the Kate Greenaway
Medal, given for outstanding Children’s
Literature every year:
www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/greenaway/
• Look at the topics that you child will focus on in
each term and look for books about that topic.
Here are the topics for FS2:
Autumn 1
Which was
the biggest
dinosaur?
Autumn 2
Why do
leaves go
crispy?
Spring 1
How many
colours in
the
rainbow?
Spring 2
Why do
spiders eat
flies?
Summer 1
Why can’t I
have
chocolate
for
breakfast?
Summer 2
Am I the
fastest?