Literacy Evening Questionnaire Responses 2016
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1. How confident do you feel in hearing your child read?
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2. How confident do you feel in reading to your child read?
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3. How confident do you feel in helping your child with writing?
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4. How confident do you feel in helping your child to segment words (split words into the individual sounds)?
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5. How confident do you feel in helping your child to blend words (combine sounds to make words)?
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6. What do you enjoy when reading with your child?
- When they joins in.
- Sharing a story
- Cooking books
- Any story books
- The fun, child’s interpretation and imagination.
- Stories and factual
- Talking about what’s happening in the story. X2
- How excited they are when they get it right.
- Talking about the book.
- Making funny words up.
- Asking questions about the story.
- Expression and enjoyment.
- Listening to what they think will happen next.
- When they are interested in the story.
- To see how they react to the story and asks questions.
7. What do you enjoy when writing with your child?
- Watching them trying to write.
- Seeing them write their name.
- Seeing how they form their letters.
- Memories, letters, shopping list
- Seeing how they have developed.
- How often they say ‘easy peasy’ with certain letters
- How well they are coming along.
- Watching them getting more confident and able to write.
- Seeing their confidence grow
- Seeing how they sound out the words when reading/writing. X2
- Talking about family trips and experiences.
- Watching them make up words.
- Listening to what they can hear in a word.
- Seeing the development.
- When they are proud of their achievement.
8. Are there any other areas that you feel you would like more information on for reading and writing?
- No, I think that you are doing a good job.
- Milestones
- None/No X7
- Not now after this.
- Have had information from sibling previously.
- Any resources you would recommend
9. What has been the most useful part of the evening?
- Learning phonics and how useful it is.
- Jolly Phonics hand out
- That the letters they are writing mean something.
- Knowing how to support writing and breaking up words and sounding them back together.
- Pronouncing the letters, words and phrases
- The signs for each letter, very informative.
- All of it.
- Covered most very well.
- Teaching them how to write.
- Actions to sounds/letters X5
- Phonics and segmenting
- How to help them chop up words and phonic knowledge.
10. Are there any areas that you feel that we should include to make this evening more informative?
- 5.30pm was a good time for me. X6
- 5.30pm is good for me as it doesn’t interfere with bedtime. X2
- Get the parents doing the Jolly phonics
- No X4
- Great time and content.X2
- A section on early numeracy
- Time 30minutes later to allow all parents to get home from school.
Follow up actions:
Get parents to join in with the Jolly Phonic actions during the information evening.
Keep the parent’s Literacy Information Evening at the time of 5.30pm as it suits the majority of the parents.
Look into the possibility of an ‘Early Numeracy’ information evening.
Continue to share the process to segmenting and blending pure sounds to enable parents to support their children at home.