Learning to Read

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Learning to Read Using Synthetic Phonics
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Introducing

• Joe Blogs
• Names here.

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Something to think about!

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More than any other subject or skill, our
childrens futures are all but determined by how
well they learn to read. 
Children of the Code 2005
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Something to think about!

• Statistically, more American children suffer
  long-term life-harm from the process of learning
  to read than from parental abuse, accidents, and
  all other childhood diseases and disorders
  combined.   

Children of the Code 2005
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Something to think about!

• In purely economic terms, reading related
  difficulties cost the U.S. more than the war on
  terrorism, crime, and drugs combined. 

Children of the Code 2005
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Whats Happening?

• A good, hard look at literacy rates world wide.
• An acknowledgement that there needs to be
  improvement.
• A return to evidence based decision making in
  schools.
• A back to the New Basics way of teaching
  beginning reading.

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Teaching Reading

• We recognise that the teaching of reading has
  attracted the interest of the media in recent
  times.
• Synthetic phonics is no fad. It is based on
  findings of evidence-based research about how
  children best learn to read.
• Every school in England and Wales now needs to
  teach reading with Synthetic Phonics.

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What is synthetic phonics?

• This is a method that teaches children how
  spoken words are composed of sounds called
  phonemes and, how the letters in words correspond
  to those phonemes.

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Reading

The process of reading involves 'decoding' words
into separate phonemes, so that words can be
read. We call this blending of sounds MAKING
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Writing and Spelling
The process of writing or spelling involves
encoding. Listening for each phoneme in a word
and representing it with a letter(s). This
segmenting of words is called BREAKING.

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Is Synthetic Phonics a Fad?

• No!
• It has been heavily researched. Some studies
  tracked student achievement for as long as 7
  years.

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The Rose Review Department for Education and
Skills Independent Review of the Teaching of
Early Reading Final Report, Jim Rose, March 2006
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What were the Recommendations?

• The review states
• English is a difficult language to learn to
  read.
• We have 44 sounds but only 26 letters to make
  these sounds
• Schools need to teach how to make these sounds
• They need to do this with synthetic phonics
• We need to teach spelling alongside reading

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Lets recap, so we can do a bit of learning!
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Synthetic Phonics Whats it mean?

• Teaching the sounds of the English language and
  how these sounds (phonemes) can be written as
  letters.

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Fast - Efficient - Effective
Fast?

• A group of letters is introduced at a time.
• smctgpao

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That many letters? Why?

• How many words can you make with these
  letters?
• s m c t g p a o

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Sohow many could you make?
Wow! Thats a lot for a week at school!
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Synthetic Phonics

• After learning how to recognise and pronounce
  each of the phonemes, your child will learn to
  sound out simple words and to blend the
  phonemes together to read these words.

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Synthetic Phonics
Fast!

• At first we will concentrate on simple sound
  to letter correspondence.
• This is when a phoneme is represented by a
  single letter as in the word /m/ /a/ /t/.

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Synthetic Phonics
Efficient!

• Then we will concentrate the more difficult
  code such as one phoneme represented by 2
  letters.
• sh ch th wh

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Synthetic Phonics
Effective!

• When that is mastered, your child will learn
  the more advanced code.
• This is when a single phoneme can be
  represented by many letters.

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Here is an example.

• a - paper
• ay play
• ey - hey
• a-e spade
• eigh eight
• ei as in vein
• ai as in plain

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But there are some irregular, tricky words!

• The camera word
• We need to learn these my heart
• Not only are they high frequency but are also
  difficult to decode

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How can you help?

• By pronouncing the phonemes in the correct way.
  See www.getreadingright.com/Pronouncephonemes.htm
  
• By helping your child with MAKE and BREAK
  activities at home.
• By reading quality synthetic phonics home readers
  every night.
• By filling in the Home Reading Journal every
  night

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What your child will be learning this year
Term 1 2

• s m c t g p a o
• r l d f h I u
• v w y z j n k e
• ll ss ff zz
• sh ch th wh
• ck ng qu x

Alongside 36 camera words
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What your child will be learning this year
Term 3

• CCVC/CVCC/VCC
• ee ea y e
• i igh y ie i_e
• o oa ow o_e
• a ai ay a_e
• oo ew ue u_e

Alongside 36 camera words