Parents may find the following set of videos helpful when supporting their young child at home with early reading and phonics skills plus numeracy concepts. ‘Learning Boosts’ are short clips, created by teachers, explaining the key teaching and learning approaches when a child is learning to read and key basic number skills For example,<\/p>\n
Learning Boosts<\/strong> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLwvtdkaEZAmiviwt9zvbPjd-4QKfg0wqP<\/a><\/p>\n We have also included the link to the video clips on our school website and will also be uploading information around how children can use decoding strategies when reading. These are strategies that are explicitly taught during reading sessions in school.<\/p>\n \n Supporting Reading at Home – Decoding Strategies<\/strong><\/p>\n Decoding usually refers to the skills of alphabetic knowledge and letter-sound correspondence. It serves as the building block upon which all other reading instruction is built. Therefore, explicit teaching of decoding strategies is essential. These strategies help to develop independence at all ages when the reader encounters an unfamiliar word. We have focused on 12 decoding strategies that we use when delivering reading lessons. Having good decoding skills not only benefits reading but it gives the learner strategies for sounding out unfamiliar words when spelling too. These strategies can be taught spontaneously when the learner gets stuck on a word or proactively by teaching a new skill each lesson. Regularly revisiting the strategies will build confidence.<\/p>\n 12 decoding strategies to try<\/p>\n \u00b7 Look at the picture<\/strong> \u2013 this may give you a clue to what words will be on the page.<\/p>\n \u00b7 Point to the words as you read them.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00b7 Get your mouth ready<\/strong> \u2013 look at the first letter in the word. Think about what sound it makes and get your mouth ready to say that sound.<\/p>\n \u00b7 Chunk it<\/strong> \u2013 look for chucks you know or for words within the word that you know, i.e. yes ter day.<\/p>\n \u00b7 Look for rhymes<\/strong> \u2013 does the word look familiar such as blue and glue.<\/p>\n \u00b7 Silent or magic \u2018e\u2019<\/strong> \u2013 it makes the vowel say its own name, but it stays silent.<\/p>\n \u00b7 Walking vowels<\/strong> \u2013 teach the rhyme, \u2018when two vowels go walking, the first one does the talking\u2019- ai, ea, ie, oa, ue.<\/p>\n \u00b7 Stretch out the word<\/strong> \u2013 make a continuous noise as you move through the letters i.e., fffff uuuuu nnnn for fun.<\/p>\n \u00b7 Cover the ending<\/strong> \u2013 for words ending in ing, cover the ending to focus on the root word then add ing back on again.<\/p>\n \u00b7 Jump over it<\/strong> \u2013 when you don\u2019t know a word, jump over it and read the rest of the sentence. Then go back and try to figure it out.<\/p>\n \u00b7 Switch the sound<\/strong> \u2013 think about long and short vowel sounds, soft c and g and the different sounds for y and ed.<\/p>\n \u00b7 Double check<\/strong> \u2013 does it sound right? Does it look right? Does it make sense? If not try again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Parents may find the following set of videos helpful when supporting their young child at home with early reading and phonics skills plus numeracy concepts. ‘Learning Boosts’ are short clips, created by teachers, explaining the key teaching and learning approaches when a child is learning to read and key basic number skills For example, ‘Get … Continue reading Learning<\/span>