Fresh Start

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Welcome to (school name)

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Fresh Start Literacy Progamme

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more you learn, the more places you will go.

- Dr Seuss

What is Read Write Inc Fresh Start?

A rapid learn to read programme

So pupils can…

Read to learn for the rest of their lives

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Why Read Write Inc Fresh Start?

Tried and tested over many years

Systematic and structured

Success in reading

Training and ongoing staff development

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Who is it for?

Pupils in Y5 and upwards who need to ‘catch-up’quickly

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How does it work?

Pupils:Learn 44 sounds and matching letters

Learn to blend sounds to read words

Read lots of specially written texts

This is decoding

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How does it work?

Pupils:Talk a lot about what they have read to show they understand

Listen to and discuss ideas to deepen understanding

This is comprehending

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How does it work?

Pupils:

Learn to spell words by saying the sounds and writing the matching letter groups

Learn to build sentences orally using adventurous vocabulary

Write simple and increasingly complex sentences

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Fresh Start Modules: reading and writing

Reading and writing

Languages are made up of speech sounds (phonemes)

Alphabets are used to record these sounds (graphemes)

Sounds

All words are made up of sounds

In English there are 44

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Graphemes

A grapheme is a sound written down

English has more than 150 graphemes

The most complex alphabetic code in the world!

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Chart

This chart shows the most usual graphemes for the 44 sounds

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Pupils learn a simple code first

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play mayk trayn cafay strayt wayt brayk

green dreem kee hee happee

light kight fligh Igh igh tigh

blow smowk flowt gow mowst

moon broot bloo groo

If English had a simple codespelling and reading would be much easier!

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c-a-t

ch-a-t

l-igh-t

c-r-a-sh

How can you help?

By...

using pure sounds

knowing the graphemes

understanding how ‘Fred’/ Sound Talk helps with reading and spelling

f l m n r s v z sh th ng

nk

b c d g h j p qu

t w x y ch

k

a e i o u ay ee igh ow

oo oo ar or air ir ou oy

Set 1 sounds Set 2 sounds

Consonants: stretchy

Vowels: stretchy

Consonants: bouncy

Vowels: bouncy

f l m n r s v z sh th ngnk

ffph

llle

mmmb

nnkn

rrwr

sssecce

ve zzs

tici

b ck

d g h j p qu t w x y ch

bb ckch

dd gg gge

dge

pp tt wh tch

a e i o u ay ee igh ow

ea a_eai

yeae

i_eiei

o_eoao

oo oo ar or air ir ou oy ire ear ure

u_eueew

oororeawau

are urer

ow oi

Set 2 Set 3

Sound talk...

Helps pupils learn to read

Sound talk means only talking in sounds...

(e.g. Fred can only say c_a_t, he can’t say cat)

We call this Fred Talk/Sound talk

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Fred...

If we understand Fred/Sound talk we can blend orally

Blending is needed for reading

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Fred...

Fred helps pupils learn to spell as well! Pupils convert words into sounds

They press the sounds they hear on to their fingers...

We call this Fred/Sound Fingers

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So how can you help your son/daughter?

By knowing the 44 pure sounds

By knowing how to blend using Fred Talk for reading m_a_t

By knowing how to use Fred Fingers for spelling

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And...

By reading to your son/daughter e.g. stories / extracts from newspaper

Asking lots of questions/sharing opinions!

Use these prompts to help you:

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What is that character thinking?

What is the character saying?

What do you

think that character is

feeling now?

What is happening?

What do you think happens next?

And...

By talking to your son/daughter as much as possible and ‘feeding’ them new and different words – have fun!

“Let’s eat our lunch now.”“Let’s munch our lunch now.”“Let’s scoff our lunch now.”“Let’s devour our lunch now!”

I’m not just...(happy that England won) I’m....(ecstatic)!You’re looking ...not just...but...

And...

By enriching conversations through description:

“Look at that rain. It looks like diamonds sparkling on the window pane!”

By having fun with words and language.

“I’m as hot as a spud in a cooking pot!”

By praising your child for using new words or interesting images

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And...

By having a look at the parents’ pages on the web for tips and resources for supporting your child at home:

www.oup.com (RWI resources are published by Oxford University Press)

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Thank you...

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Happy reading!

Appendices

Optional slides – see notes

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At this school the Read Write Inc. Fresh Start programme is managed by:Mr/Mrs ???????

Why synthetic phonics?

“Synthetic phonics offers the vast majority of young children the best and most direct route to becoming skilled readers and writers” Sir Jim Rose

Rose Review of Reading 2006

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