Acting Middle Leader
Dear Parents and Carers,
Welcome back to Term 3! Hard to believe we are in the second half of the year.
At the end of last term, I met with the teachers from each cohort to discuss our reading results from Term 2. We had lots of positive results with reading in the school, however we know there is also always room for improvement. From this data collection, teachers are putting into action some specific goals for their students to achieve in Term 3 to help improve reading.
This week we are looking at our Prep and Year 1 goals. Below is an outline of our Prep and Year One goals and a guide as to how parents can assist their children with these goals at home.
Prep
Focus is on segmenting and blending words. E.g. Students can break up a word, c-a-t, and put it back together to say ‘cat’. We are only focussing on doing this for CVC words (Constant, vowel, constant words)
At home, you can assist your child by doing the following:
- When they get to an unknown word, ask them to say the sound of each letter. If they are unsure of a sound, please tell them. Assist your child to put the word back together if they are unsure.
- Please note that not all words are easy to sound out and can be tricky to put back together. Many spelling rules can often apply. We really want the students to be able to do this mainly with CVC words to start.
Year 1
Focus is on re-reading for meaning. Year 1 have introduced ‘re-read rabbit’ reading strategy.
At home you can assist your child by doing the following:
- When students are reading and you hear them say a word that doesn’t make sense in the context, we can ask them to use re-read rabbit. This means they go back to the beginning of the sentence and re-read the whole sentence to see if another word would make more sense.
- At the beginning, students might not realise the word they read doesn’t make sense. If they do not pick up on their mistake by themselves, please let them know that it doesn’t make sense and ask them to use re-reading rabbit. Children may then need further support to decode the unknown word.
We are really excited to see student’s working towards these goals and can’t wait to see our great progress throughout the term.
Look out on Facebook next week, for some of our student’s working on their reading goals!
Happy reading,
Bec Thomas