Things you can do at home
Home Reading
Here is a video which gives you some ideas on how to approach reading with your child. I hope it helps!
Home readers- I have started to send home readers for the students to read every night. You can read it them, then they can have a go, have a discussion about the text but most of all make reading fun.
The students will have a book for one night. Please make sure it goes back in their blue folder as they are going to be changing it daily. Please ensure that you write every book in your childs yellow reading journal.
How to practise Magic Words at home!
The key to the learning of the sight words is lots of practise in different ways with as much success as possible to encourage your child. If your child knows some letter sounds they might use these to help them remember words, such as ‘was’ starts with a ‘wuh’ sound. However, remember the
eventual goal for your child is to remember these words from their memory (ie to
recall the word in less than a second). If a child is still sounding out a magic
word then it is not truly known by sight until they can say it without sounding
it. We want children to know these magic words by sight so they can use other
strategies like ‘sounding out’ and ‘looking at the picture’ when they come to
trickier words in each sentence they read. Try to encourage your child to recognise the shape of the whole word, how many letters it has, any words within words (ie ‘That’ has ‘at’ in it).
I hope this helps!!
Cued Articulation
Here is the link to the 'Cued Articulation' Song that we have been practising in class.
What is Cued articulation?
It is a set of hand cues for teaching the individual sounds in a word. The hand movements are logical – each hand
movement represents one sound and the cue gives clues as to how and where the sound is produced.
What is Cued articulation?
It is a set of hand cues for teaching the individual sounds in a word. The hand movements are logical – each hand
movement represents one sound and the cue gives clues as to how and where the sound is produced.