Literacy workshop for P1 parents

1. Literacy in P1

2. P1 Literacy Workshop
TODAY after Soft Start!
• Understand the literacy approach in P1
• Understand how this develops into P2
• Work with teachers to identify home learning
tasks.

3. Supported Play
• Nurturing the whole child.
• Time to talk.
• Create a learning community.
• Develop imagination and creativity.
• See the relevance of reading, writing, listening and talking.
• Adults able to target literacy in a setting that makes sense
to children.
• Lots of opportunities to read, write, listen and talk around
the room.
• Develop motor skills and hand eye coordination- the basis
for handwriting.

4. 5 Stories a Day
• Immersing children in books.
• Expect reading to be pleasurable.
• Modelling good reading.
• Familiar with how stories work- prediction skills.
• Understand how to choose a good book.
• Encourage children to read real books in their
own time- blessing the book and familiar stories.

5. Singing Games and Rhymes
• Singing every day
• Action songs- brain development
• Singing emphasises syllables which helps children to break
down big words into smaller chunks – skill needed for reading
and writing.
• Being familiar with rhyming words help children to spell and
read unknown words e.g. ‘tack’ can help you read/spell black,
sack, rack (another indicator for readiness to read)
• Developing auditory memory- children need to develop their
memory to enable them to read and write longer texts.

6. Phonemic Awareness
• Develop children’s awareness of the 44
sounds of the English language.
• Introduce them to letters and letter patterns
that represent different sounds – one for each
sound.
s a t p i n c
s a t p i n c

7. Achievement in Literacy
• s a t p i n c
• Helps children to understand how letters go
together to make words.
• Knowing that some words can be sounded out
and other words try to trick you (tricky words)
• Helps children understand how words go
together to make sentences.
• Building confidence in having a go at reading.
pat is a cat

8. Focus Groups – Developing Confident Readers
• EVERY CHILD ‘READS’ EVERY DAY WITH AN ADULT.
• Looking for readiness to read.
– Recognising sounds.
– Blending sounds together to make words.
– Confidently blending words and phrases.
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• Introduction to ORT- develop reading skills that build on :
– Meaning (Talking about the stories)
– Sentences (Looking for clues & cues to help read simple sentences)
– Words (Build up a bank of key sight words)
– Sounds and Letters ( Blending sounds together to read words)

9. Kippeq qead
Kippeq qead a book

10. Kippeq qead a book
It was a good book
It was a book about
animals

11. Writing Day
• Developing fine motor control and hand/eye
coordination –crafts, play dough, drawing,
colouring, tracing (play, construction) .
• Drawing themselves with detail.
• Telling stories about themselves with pictures.
• Adults modelling writing to children – every day.
• Developing letter formations.
• Children are encouraged to help write the story
with the letters/words that they know.

12. Shared Text
• Developing reading for information.
• Know that information can be found in books.
• Looking for familiar words and phrases to help
read the text.
• Modelling good reading.

13. What happens in P2?
• Starts of with same model.
• 3 stories a day.
• Reading every day.
• Develops handwriting skills.
• Achievement in Literacy – bigger focus on writing.
• Children write independently every day- low stake
writing.
• Writing Day- high stake writing.
• Shared text.
• Soft Start every Friday.
• Parent helpers?

14. HOMEWORK?
• What is the purpose of homework?
• Play?
• Phonemic Awareness (Jolly phonics)?
• 5 a day?
• Achievement in Literacy?
• Reading ?
• Handwriting?