This document provides information for parents on how Dobcroft Infant School teaches literacy and numeracy skills. It explains how the school teaches phonics and provides ideas for parents to support literacy and numeracy development at home, such as reading rhyming books, playing phonics games, practicing number skills like counting and sorting objects. The school follows the National Primary Framework and the document outlines the key objectives and concepts taught in numeracy each year.

1. Dobcroft Infant School
Supporting Your Child in
Literacy and Numeracy.
Aims
•Explain how literacy and numeracy skills are taught
in school.
•Ideas of how parents/carers can support children
develop reading, writing and number skills at home.

2. What is Literacy?

3. Teaching Phonics in School.

4. How do we Teach Phonics?

5. Development of skills in Phonics.
• Hearing and discriminating general sounds, speech sounds .
• Generating different sounds during singing times ~ clapping,
tapping and making different sounds using voices.
• Identifying and clapping syllables in familiar words.
• Rhythm ~ clapping and tapping beats ~ singing songs using the
“Beat Baby”
• Identifying alliteration in a song, story or tongue twister eg
Swan swam over the sea.
• Hearing and saying sounds (phonemes) in an initial position ~
Auditory skills segmenting sounds eg Fred talk ~ commands in PE
h-o-p , s-t-o-p, r-u-n .
• Orally segmenting words eg net ~ n-e-t , sat ~ s-a-t
• Identifying and continuing a rhyming string.

6. Supporting Phonics at Home.
• Reading rhyming books to your child~ can they spot the rhyme can they
think of another word to rhyme? ~ There will be a selection of rhyming
books for the children to borrow in a special box in their registration
area.
• Talking about sounds you can hear around the home and outside.
• Listening for the initial sound in simple and familiar words. Can the
children spot “alliteration?”
• Reinforcing the language associated with first, last/ end and middle.~
Who was the first to finish their lunch, who is sitting in the middle ?
Etc.
• Orally blending words eg do you want j-a-m or ch-ee-se on your
sandwich ?
• Listening to words and then segmenting them. bed ~ b-e-d . Can your
child segment words?
• Practise the actions ~ find words that start , end and have those
letters in the middle.
• Make your own sound book with pictures cut out of magazines and
catalogues
• Continue to read stories, poems and rhymes to your child ~ enjoy words
and rhymes. Support your child in learning Nursery Rhymes.

7. Reading

8. Phonic Games at Home.
• Before your child is ready for a reading
scheme book they need to consolidate
their oral and auditory phonic skills.
• We will write in the reading diary when
your child is ready for a reading scheme
book.
• We are looking for independence and
consistency when the children are
involved in these activities. Comments in
the reading diary are very useful to us.

9. Supporting Reading at Home.
When your child has acquired the skills for segmenting and blending simple words
and can recognise some of the keywords ~
 Bring home simple cvc words to segment and blend eg pin, tap, sit
• Bring home simple sentences to segment and blend at home.
• Once your child is confidently segmenting and blending independently your child
will bring home a reading book with a coloured sticker on. When you change your
child’s book please take another book with the same colour sticker.
• Your read write inc teacher will hear your child read and make comments in the
reading diary . ~Write down the books you read together at home and please add
your own comments when you hear your child read.
• The reading record provides a list of skills for your child to practise and develop.
• Your child can have a new reading book everyday if you wish. Please change the
book in the morning.
• Make a quiet time to share the book with your child.
• Encourage your child to use their segmenting and blending skills to decode the
text.
• Ask your child about what they have read.
• Look for keywords in the text .Play simple games with the words in the pack.

10. Developing Writing Skills.

11. Fine Motor Skills

12. CursiveWriting
We are askingthechildren to smilein and out of letters.
In your pack you have a whiteboard pen and your child’s name
in cursive writing.

13. Progression in Writing

14. Independent Writing

15. Developing Writing Skills at
Home.
Encourage your child to “mark make” using
different pens, paper and chalk outside.
At this stage it does not matter if you cannot
understand or read your child’s ”writing” ~ but
your child will be able to talk about what they
want to say in their “writing”.
As the children become familiar with the letter
sounds and the corresponding letter shape
they may begin to write the first letter to
represent a word.

16. Numeracy in School
• The school follows the National Primary
Framework.
• The Framework is a teaching tool which
outlines the key objectives for each year
group in the Primary School including the
Foundation Stage.
• Included in your pack is a mathematical
booklet to support your child develop an
understanding of mathematical concepts.

17. Numeracy

18. Numeracy

19. What will your child learn in
Numeracy?
• Say one, two, three, four… to twenty.
• Select the correct number to represent 1 to 9 objects.
• Count up to 10 objects and beyond.
• Recognise, write and order the numerals 1, 2, 3, 4… to 20.
• Find 1 more or 1 less than any number from 1 to 20.
• Add two small groups of objects (total 10 or less).
• Partition a group of objects eg six cubes into 2 sets 3+3 or 4+2 or 5+1
• Count how many are left when some are taken away.
• Select two groups of objects to make a given total.
• Solve simple problems such as finding ways to arrange 8 crayons in two pots .
• Count aloud in twos ,fives or tens.
• Double numbers eg 3+3 makes6 4+4makes 8
• Share a set of objects between 2.
• Split a shape in half.
• Decide on a criteria for sorting a set of objects.
• Make simple patterns and talk about them.
• Name 2D and 3D shapes such as a circle, square, triangle,
• rectangle, cube, cone and sphere.
• Uses words to describe position such as over ,under, next to and behind. Use words such as more, less,
greater, smaller, heavier, lighter, full and empty to compare objects or amounts.
• Say the days of the week in the correct order and be able to say what the day was yesterday and what the
day will be tomorrow.
• Tell the time using o’clock.
• Recognise and the know the value of 1p-20p

20. How to support your child at
home.
1. Encourage matching activities eg setting the table
for the family.
2. Sorting activities such as sorting toys or coins and
deciding how to sort and then explain eg All the red
cars here and the “not” red cars here.
3. Counting accurately 1:1 small sets of objects.
4. Using language “more” or “less” ~ eg if you have 1
more how many will there be now? Say the number
that is 1 less than 5.
5. Finding a total of two small sets of objects.
6. Play dice games eg beetle drive.
7. Looking for numbers and using numbers in the
environment eg house numbers, bus numbers and car
number plates.

21. Trips and helping in School
• If you think you would like to help in
school or come on a trip please speak to
your child’s class teacher.
• There are sign up sheets for The Build a
Bear trip.
• If you would like to accompany us on the
trip to the pantomime you will need to
buy a ticket from Rotherham Civic
Theatre and make your own way to
Rotherham.

22. Thank you for attending this meeting.
Please remember to sign the attendance
sheet before leaving.
We will be sending out an evaluation sheet
before half term. We value comments and
suggestions made by parents/carers . We
use the results from the evaluations to
develop our practice in school.
Thank you
Good Bye.