Part 4 – Conclusion
Part 4 – Conclusion
The conclusion in this section offers guidance to parents who wish to support their children and ensure that they become fluent at word reading, as well as developing a love of reading.
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In conclusion:
- Prepare children well for school, especially with their spoken language and vocabulary.
- Learn about the teaching of reading and writing and the advantages of synthetic phonics.
- Be aware of potential reading problems. Remember: 25% of children find learning to read difficult, and most of them are from supportive homes. It is important to recognise if your child is struggling to remember the letter sounds or is finding it difficult to blend words. Gently provide help with these skills. If serious alarm bells are ringing and progress is extremely slow, then it might be a good idea to have a quiet discussion with your child’s teacher. It is worth mentioning that young children hate to hear any criticism of their teacher or school, so it is wise to keep any worries you might have away from them. It is the same the other way round; teachers should take great care never to criticize parents in front of their children. By having a united front, the children are much happier and more receptive to what is required of them.
- When your child starts bringing home books to read to you, look carefully at how (s)he reads them. Is your child able to work out the unknown words? If the books are not decodable and they are causing your child to guess the words, then it is important to ask for decodable readers.
- There is no doubt that in mainstream education virtually all the children in need of support are able to overcome their problems when synthetic phonics and decodable readers are used in classroom teaching and intervention groups. It is also much easier to achieve this when teachers and parents work together.
And that concludes the teaching on this section.
In this section there is parental guidance for helping pre-school children develop skills that are needed for learning to read and write.
In this section parents are encouraged to find out how reading and writing are taught in the school they would like to send their child to.
Parents are able to closely watch their children’s reading progress. This section provides guidance about looking out for potential problems and doing something about it.
TCRW - English Alphabetic-Code Chart.pdf
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Debbie Hepplewhite's English Alphabetic-Code Chart.pdf
Alphabetic-Code Charts are extremely useful for developing an understanding of how our complex, alphabetic code works. Debbie Hepplewhite has made an excellent chart. There are several other charts available on her website - a link has been provided to her website www.phonicsinternational.co