Year 1 Reading Club Classes (T4 2020)

Description

General Information

Please select a day and start time. This time slot represents your child’s ongoing place.

Classes are held on Thursdays after school and Saturday mornings; 60 minutes long costing $40.00 per class.

Term 4 2020 is 9 weeks long, commencing Monday 5 October and ending Saturday 5 December 2020.

Small class sizes of up to 5 children per class.

Due to current governmental restrictions in place, classes will be conducted online until further notice.

Required Resources

All Year 1 Program students are required to purchase Milo’s Birthday Surprise picture story book ($29.95) and Milo’s Alphabet Games Flashcards ($29.00) if not already purchased in the preceding year and My Word Detective Book ($6.00) (2020 prices).

These resources need only be purchased once for the duration your child takes part in Reading Club.

All Reading Club students receive a complimentary

• Reading Club bag to bring to class every week,
• workbook  in which to keep all Reading Club activities,
• access to the Little Learners Love Literacy (LLLL) decodable readers for weekly borrowing,
• book mark,
• Reading Club reading folder and sticker chart,
• copy of laminated Heart Words to practise at home, and
• Reading Club white board and whiteboard marker.

The objectives of Reading Club’s year 1 classes:

• reflect, revise and assess letter sounds found in Stages 1 through to 4,
• picking out and manipulating sounds in words,
• blending and segmenting sounds in words, focusing on the initial, middle and final sounds,
• developing understanding of letter combinations,
• linking letter sounds with letters of the alphabet and connecting this information with writing the letter,
• reading level-appropriate decodable text readers, and
• building children’s knowledge of Heart Words. 

Classes involve:

• Circle Time Show & Tell which promotes speaking and listening skills.
• Introducing the new letter/s or letter combinations of the unit and focusing on letter sound games and activities.
• Explicit teaching, application and practise of letter combination focus.
• Music and movement, promoting and interacting with the introduced letter sound in a different context.
• Art & Craft, promoting and interacting with the introduced letter sound.
• Handwriting.
• Let’s Spell: teaching segmenting and sequencing of sounds and matching words.
• Let’s Write: providing writing opportunities at the word, phrase and sentence level.
• Phonemic fun activities.
• Chitter Chatter Chant & Speech Sounds.
• Storytime.
• Goodbye Rhyme.