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Writing and phonics workshop

Writing and phonics workshop. Ivy Gardens Children’s Centre. What will we be doing?. How children learn to write and what your role as a parent is in supporting writing. Games and activities to do with writing to help your child at home.

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Writing and phonics workshop

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  1. Writing and phonics workshop Ivy Gardens Children’s Centre

  2. What will we be doing? • How children learn to write and what your role as a parent is in supporting writing. • Games and activities to do with writing to help your child at home. • Where children need to be a the end of Reception before starting Year 1.

  3. Writing your name • Being able to write their name is the gateway to writing for your child. • It is easy for us as adults but we quickly forget the skills you need to do this successfully. • We are going to write our names, but from right to left AND upside down. What do we need to know to write?

  4. Writing goes from left to right How much pressure to use to make the pencil work Where letters start How letters are formed Letters mean something Letters need to be in a certain order to make sense How to hold a pencil Once I’ve written something it will always say that What to do with the rest of my body when I write

  5. Before we can write… • Fine motor skills • Children can’t ‘just write’…it would be like running a marathon with no training, we have to build up strength in our shoulders, arms, hands and fingers. • Some ideas…using a knife and fork to eat meals, climbing and swinging from playground equipment, screwing up paper and flicking it, lacing, threading, playing with lego, helping with housework at home.

  6. Preparing for handwriting • Children need to have an understanding of shapes, lines and movement before they can start writing letters. • It is unlikely they will move from ‘making marks’ to writing their name, there are steps in between. To take home…pattern sheets to help with movement and lines

  7. Letter formation • Only use capital letters for the beginning of sentences, places names etc. • Follow the school writing style to support your child (this is helping your child to build up to joined-up writing). • Help your child see patterns of letter formation • Use pictures and letter ‘patters’ to help your child to remember formations.

  8. Seeing patterns in letter formation, help your child to look for letter ‘families’. • Curly caterpillar family • Anticlockwise movements • c, o, a, d, g, q, s, f, e, • One-armed robot family • Down, up and over movements • r, n,m, h, b, p, , • Long ladder family • Mainly down and round movements • i, I, t, j, u, y, • Zig-zag monster • Diagonal movements • v, w, x, z, k

  9. Writing with your child • Does your child see you write? • Some ideas of things you could do together… • Shopping lists, postcards, telephone message, thank you cards etc.

  10. Where children need to be… • Let’s look at some examples of writing from Reception. • These examples show the level of writing we would like children to produce before they move onto Year 1.

  11. Some websites to support with writing and letter formation http://www.twinkl.co.uk/ http://www.kenttrustweb.org.uk/kentict/content/games/index.htm http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/ngfl/ngfl-flash/alphabet-eng/alphabet.htm http://doorwayonline.org.uk/letterformation.html http://www.ictgames.com/sky_writing.html http://www.oup.com/oxed/primary/rwi/forparents/

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