Professional reading

Title/Source

ELP years 1-4 Pages 2,6, 33-35 (phonics and decoding)

Evaluation/Summation

Phonemic awareness is fundamental to early reading and writing success. Student's phonemic awareness consists of their ability to recognise and understand letter sound relationships.  Children learn through deliberate focused instructions about phonemics. It is essential for readers to develop sight vocabulary that they can recall automatically. Having a large bank of sight words helps free up rain capacity to help with comprehension. Building readers sight vocab can be achieved through: - reading texts that use high frequency words repeatedly - frequent shared writing sessions - Repeated reading of easy and familiar books - adapting familiar texts - constructing charts of words with common sounds or spelling patterns - playing with words in games, rhymes and songs Oral language through conversations with adults and one another is a critical part component of literacy learning. Teachers can develop children's awareness of words, letters and sounds by drawing attention to these features when reading during shared sessions. Useful activities include:  - Reading rhymes and singing songs - listening to and practicing stories with repetitive patterns  - Play oral word games When readers meet a new letter they break it down into sound patterns. children often distinguish words by separating the first part of the letter. Better to focus on parts of the word than individual letters.  Writing provides invaluable opportunities for earning about relationships between letters and sounds.

Impact on Future Teaching

Find out if my target inquiry students have had a hearing test....Liam in particular. Test to find out the size of students sight word banks as well as their knowledge of blends - consult with Caroline to assist with this.