Year 2: Inspire Workshop on Reading

Many thanks to the parents who could make it in for our reading workshop today. For those not able to attend, here are some useful links and ideas.

1) Phonics apps

Pocket Phonics and Hairy Letters are fun and effective ways to practise phonics. Pocket Phonics is particularly good because it reflects the way we teach phonics in school. The children: repeat the phoneme (the sound); write graphemes (a letter or letters); blend sounds to form the word; they are then shown a picture, this is for them to verbalise the word in a sentence using the picture as a prompt.

Here’s a link to the Pocket Phonics and Hairy Letters apps.



It was a cold, rainy and windy day. Bob felt zxhjrtp.



2) Work out the word.

Whilst phonics can help with word recognition, it can't explain the meaning. However, you can work out a word's meaning by using the context of the rest of the sentence.

Here’s a link to an activity sheet for you to download to practise this important skill.

3) Reading Comprehension.

There are many books available. Here are two links to very inexpensive resources for your child to practise reading comprehension.

Scofield & Sims - £2.49

Bond

4) Question prompts.

Here’s a link to a sheet you can download to help you ask your child different types of questions when reading with your child. There’s also a tally to help keep track of the types of questions your child needs support with.