Literacy Curriculum Evening Holmesdale Infant School March 2015 - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Literacy Curriculum Evening Holmesdale Infant School March 2015 How is Literacy taught? One hour of Literacy every day Weekly 15/20 minute Guided Reading / Reciprocal reading sessions Phonics four times a week / weekly spellings
Holmesdale Infant School March 2015
One hour of Literacy every day Weekly 15/20 minute Guided Reading /
Reciprocal reading sessions
Phonics four times a week / weekly
spellings
Independent reading Handwriting Speaking and Listening opportunities.
We teach in topics and they fall into these main categories:
the same author / from different cultures]
recounts]
We start with a stimulus, and this might be:
and we will do this by:
in groups or pairs.
them sentences.
character or a situation.
Now comes the process of reading…
writing (modeling).
texts that are similar in genre and will be suited to their ability.
The writing comes very much at the end. By this point the children are prepared to produce a piece of writing of a high level [they have been taught the elements of that genre and have developed a list of success criteria] They will have learnt new words and phrases; worked on punctuation and sentence structure and studied examples and discussed them.
The Literacy framework is the document from which we currently plan and is set by the government. In Sept 2014 this is to be replaced by the new Primary Framework. These are the strands from which we teach from which relate to what I’ve been talking about…
12 strands
1)
Speaking
2)
Listening and responding
3)
Group discussion and interaction
4)
Drama
5)
Word recognition, decoding (reading) and encoding (spelling)
6)
Word structure and spelling
4)
Understanding and interpreting texts
5)
Engaging and responding to texts
6)
Creating and shaping texts
7)
Text structure and organisation
8)
Sentence structure and punctuation
9)
Presentation
These ‘strands’ form the basis of all good
Literacy and will still be taught.
From Sept 2014 the New Primary
Curriculum gives teachers the freedom to teach these, with a greater focus given to elements such as handwriting, grammar, spelling and punctuation – all elements that we already work on at Holmesdale!
creative engages children’s interest.
engages their creativity and helps them understand how important Literacy is in everyday life and more importantly how it will help them get a job in the future!
Start where they are at…
express it giving examples to back it up.
audience to them…
birthdays.
Emails to relatives or friends.
fiction.
forgotten but is just important…
always assessed in government set tests.
you fit in when it suits the family.
then have different books and
about what you read is just as important.
instructions.
a film that they want to watch.
helps with not only their reading but their spellings and writing.
important to support your child. Be aware
learning so you can point out the spelling patterns when you hear them read.
child might end up
www.puzzlemaker.com
word search.
uk/hardspell/starspell _game.shtml - test the whole family!
uk/schools/spellits/ - spelling quest game.