KS1 Literacy

[noideawhereIamgoing]

I want to support my child at home in literacy but I would like a book to help give me some guidance on how they approach the subject at school - it seems to have changed quite a bit from the days where we were just told to get on with it. I need something like a literacy version of "Maths for Mums and Dads"

[mrz]

Flying Start With Literacy: Activities for Parents and Children

[maverick]

You'll find the following helpful -and free:

www.phonicsinternational.com/guidance_book.pdf
Debbie Hepplewhite's Overview and Guidance booklet gives an outline of synthetic phonics principles in succinct form.

Ted Hirsch's booklet 'Teaching Kids to Read'
www.coreknowledge.org/mimik/mimik_uploads/documents/397/TeachingKidstoRead.pdf

[noideawhereIamgoing]

Thank you, will look at those ideas - I should have said writing, rather than reading. We seem to have an absolutely huge gulf between reading ability and writing ability.

[maverick]

Writing (spelling) always lags a little behind reading as it uses a different type of memory -recall memory without prompts or clues.
Modern synthetic phonics, properly taught, splits time evenly on reading (blending) and writing/spelling (segmenting). If either is neglected then problems can result.

Havea look at my web pages on writing and spelling:
www.aowm73.dsl.pipex.com/dyslexics/learning_to_write.htm

[noideawhereIamgoing]

Funnily enough he doesn't struggle with spelling and is a free reader, in fact reading is one of ds's favourite activities. He had/has an expressive speech disorder which makes it hard for him to express his ideas clearly - although they are all in his head. He struggles with planning, sentence structure, technical language....the 1:1 really makes a huge difference but so far we've had other areas to focus on and although I'd love to do everything immediately I need to pace the support I offer him to avoid completely turning him off learning.

[mrz]

Does he enjoy writing?

[mrz]

What about drawing?

[noideawhereIamgoing]

I wouldn't go as far as to say he enjoys writing....he'll do a bit of unprompted drawing - he attends a weekly art class and really enjoys that and I'm sure that helps with him planning his ideas on paper.

I'm concentrating on getting him to make sentences out of his spellings, but it's not something he looks forward to.

[mrz]

How about encouraging him to write in comic strip format? Less writing ...