Parents meeting

January 30th 2013

Accelerated progress…

Children who have not made the expected level of progress are given small group tuition, extra to their RWI lesson, up to 4 times a week for 20 minutes.

In our last 7 week cycle:

EYFS - 64% of pupils made 2 or more levels of progress.

KS1 - 58% of pupils made 2 or more levels of progress.

KS2 – 38% of pupils made 2 or more levels of progress.

Speed sounds and blending Fred Talk

What next?

Reading at home

Today

Learn 44 sounds and matching letters/letter groups

Learn to blend sounds to read words

Read lots of specially written books

How will children learn to read through Read Write Inc Phonics

programme?

Simple Speed sounds

Help your child at home by :

Learning the sounds

Fred talk at home

Blending c-a-t ch-a-t l-igh-t c-r-a-sh

“What a tidy r-oo-m!”

“Where’s your c-oa-t?”

“Time for b-e-d!”

Storybooks and Get Writing Books

04/19/23

Look at the books.

See if you can find:

Speed sounds green and red words

Story introduction

Reading through the story

Reading with expression

Questions

Writing activity

Remember

Ditties and home reading books are homemade.

Beginning with booksBooks are structured , like a a staircase so they increase in difficulty.

Children will work on them in school.

Teaching is focussed, so they will be with children of similar ability.

Beginning with books

Half termly assessments.

Staff move around and teach different groups.

Books can be taken home.

Reading diaries.

There’s a space in the reading diary for each day.

Praise is very important.

Think of a positive comment.

Incentives

3 reads from 1 book + 3 diary entries = a dip in the box on Friday

Sally can blend. Dad is really proud.

Humphrey loved answering the

questions

Excellent. Maureen read all by herself.

3 reads from 1 book + 3 diary entries = a dip in the box on Friday

Incentives

04/19/23

Assessment… The children are assessed for their phonic understanding every 7 to 8 weeks. From these assessments they are then re-grouped by the school leadership team and the groups are cross checked with teacher knowledge (class & RWI teacher).

www.ruthmiskinliteracy.com orwww.oup.com

Remember there’s lots of information on the internet.

School website

www.windynookprimary.org.