ReceptionWriting Workshop

EnglishWhat do your children learn?

• Taught every year.• Assessed at the end of each key stage.

• Phonics - letters and sounds becoming words.• Comprehension – understanding of the words.

• Spelling.• Handwriting.• Sentence structure and punctuation - accurate writing of

sentences.• Grammar - choosing the correct words so the sentences make sense.

Speaking and

Listening

Reading

Writing

Phonics in ReceptionPhase 2, 3 and 4 are taught

By Phase 4, children will be able to represent each of 42 phonemes with a grapheme. They will blend phonemes to read CVC words and segment CVC words for spelling. They will also be able to read two syllable words that are simple. They will be able to read all the tricky words learnt so far and will be able to spell some of them. This phase consolidates all the children have learnt in the previous phases

Split digraphs: a_e, e_e, i_e, o_e, u_e

Phonics in Year 1

During phase 5, children will be taught new graphemes and alternative pronunciations for these graphemes, as well as graphemes they already know. They will begin to learn to choose the appropriate grapheme when spelling.

Vowel digraphs: wh, ph, ay, ou, ie, ea, oy, ir, ue, aw, ew, oe, au

• What is the National Curriculum?• A document that tells schools what they must teach.

• Why is it changing?• The current curriculum is now 14 years old and the

Government believe that it is out of date and is no longer satisfactory.

• Reception children will transfer into the new National Curriculum in September

September 2014New Curriculum

YEAR 6

• Use and understanding of grammar.• Use and understanding of technical terms.• Spelling test – now worth 20 marks instead of 7.

SPaG Test

• Joined, legible and formed correctly.• A move away from word processing.Handwriting

• No test.• Level given must be reflected across several pieces of

work.Writing

What is new?

school

home

Working Together

•Practise ‘good grammar’.•Can’t write in sentences if you don’t speak in sentences.Talk

•Quiet place to write – table.•No background noise.•Equipment – paper, pens, pencils, dictionary.

Environment

•Thank you letters, diaries, shopping lists etc.•Model writing. Opportunities

•Regularly – for enjoyment as well as school books.•Model reading•Make tricky word games

Read

How To Help Your Child at Home

• https://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/grammar-games• http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/english/spelling_grammar/• http://

resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/interactive/literacy2.htm

• http://www.funbrain.com/grammar/• http://www.english-online.org.uk/games/gamezone2.htm• http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/english• http://phonicsplay.co.uk• http://EducationCity.com

Further Support

• Phoneme• A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound in a word It is generally accepted that

most varieties of spoken English use about 44 phonemes. Graphemes• A grapheme is a symbol of a phoneme. It is a letter or group of letters

representing a sound. • Segmenting and blending • Segmenting consists of breaking words down into phonemes to spell. Blending

consists of building words from phonemes to read. Both skills are important.

Glossary of terms

• Digraph• This is when two letters come together to make a phoneme. For example,

/oa/ makes the sound in ‘boat’ and is also known as a vowel digraph. There are also consonant digraphs, for example, /sh/ and /ch/.

• Trigraph• This is when three letters come together to make one phoneme, for

example /igh/.• Split digraph• A digraph in which the two letters are not adjacent – e.g. make

• Glossary cont.