Literacy Reading & Writing Essential Skills: Kindergarten to 1st Grade (2x Week)

An Early years professional teacher will guide your learners to build their confidence with their reading, writing and comprehension skills in these guided reading and writing classes. 

Weekly class structure: 
Every week we will have one class for guided reading and comprehension questions and the second class will have a writing focus. We will be writing sentences based on the story we have heard. 

Class one will be a guided reading and comprehension lesson

Class two will be a guided writing lesson where we will be practising our sentence structure and writing sentences about the story we have read in the previous class. 

We will have pictures from the story and we will talk about what happened before writing sentences to match the pictures. The teacher will model the words and demonstrate sounding out as we write the words. 

** Learners will need to bring along paper and a pencil to follow along at home. 

Reading: 
Please note this class is a mix of modelled reading and individual reading wherever learners feel comfortable to have a go at reading words in a shared book. The teacher will invite your child to take turns and have a go at reading lines  from a shared book as we read a story together on screen.

**  The teacher will ensure all children have a chance to read however if your child would prefer to just listen and follow along this is fine so please don’t worry. 

Reading Comprehension: 
As we work through a story the teacher will ask children questions to help them to develop a deeper understanding of what they have read. The teacher will ask children what is happening, what they think may happen next, how characters may be feeling etc. 

Children can join at any point through the weeks as each week we will be sharing a new story together. 

Level of reading: 
** Please note this class is suitable for developing readers, children who are already able to blend to read simple words. The teacher will always offer support and modelling with any words learners find difficult. 

** we will be reading Oxford reading books starting on book band yellow. 

The teacher will ask learners questions about what we have read as we go through. 

Writing: 
In the second class of the week the teacher will show some pictures from the book we read in the previous class. The teacher will remind children of the story and we will practise some sentences together. Learners will need to bring a pencil and paper and the teacher will model writing sentences about different parts of the story which children can follow along with writing at home.