Literacy Staff Meeting : Moving On From Decodable Texts

FULL PRESENTATION FROM STAFF MEETING, LEAD BY LISA COLLIER

When leaving the LLLL range of books, check you've covered: 

7.5 Morphology focus
-ed        
ce ci cy 
ge gi gy 

dge 
ph 
le 
wr

Rules: 
1. Gentle Cindy- When the letter c is followed by the letters e, i, or y it changes from the hard /c/ as in can to the soft /s/ as in city.
2. When the letter g is followed by the letters e, i, or y it changes from the hard /g/ as in got to the soft /j/ as in magic

...and check that you've covered early spelling rules (The Code)

The Code Year 1:

* Open syllables- a syllable that ends in a long vowel spelled with a single vowel letter e.g. no, we, she

* ‘S’ can represent the sounds /s/ and /z/ e.g. is, has, his, was

* Suffixes -s (plurals) -ing (action/ doing)

The Code Year 2:

* ‘C’ or ‘K’- when using /k/ at the beginning of a word, the vowel that follows, tells which letter to use * “C takes a o u, K takes the other two”

* Contractions

* Compound words

* Soft C and soft G

* Heart Words

Planning for students who are about to leave stage 7.5 

* When the learners are through 7.5, ensure that their assessment data is updated on Hero

* Use a Running Record to see where they come out on the colour wheel. Caroline has suggested orange as a starting point for this.
* The areas of the RR to be filled in are: accuracy, self corrections and highlight/ identify error patterns (e.g. long /ie/ etc)
* Start from Year 2 of The Code and gap fill (for spelling and reading spelling patterns).

Comprehension Skills to Focus on: 

* Read & visualise

* Summarise

* Make a connection : text to self, text to text, within the text

* Ask questions 

* Form a hypothesis e.g. x character is choosing to do y because....(with text references)

* Prediction