"break The Flow Of Speech Into Words"

[Guest]

Hi all,

 

I am sitting here back to planning for nursery... Looking at the new development matters, and I saw this one:

 

"Begins to break the flow of speech into words"

 

I know this was in the old EYFS and I still have no idea what they mean by it... please help!

 

Thanks!

 

Debbie xx

[Susan]

Robot talk for writing. Children need to understand the concept of a word for early reading and writing to enable them to hear the phonemes.

[Gezabel]

Bit of a random question but does anyone have a list of explanations or should i say definition /examples for phonemes, diagraphs, graphemes etc??

[Madmum]

Not sure if the attached sheet will help. It was given as a handout at a phonics training session.spelling glossary0001.pdf

[Gezabel]

Not sure if the attached sheet will help. It was given as a handout at a phonics training session.spelling glossary0001.pdf

Brillaint thank you soooo much

[catma]

The letters and sounds packs also describe these.

Missing off the sheet is digraph which is basically a phoneme with 2 letters making one sound so e.g. /ch/ or /th/.

There are also vowel digraphs such as /ea/ and split digraphs such as in bite, where the ie digraph is separated by another letter bt makes the same sound.

 

Breaking the flow of speech - if you go back into writing development the child will start to chunk letters into random groups, moving on from just letter strings so writing starts to look like conventional words e.g. eelld bees oolld, maybe with or without initial phonemes and usually using letters they know randomly. They are beginning to understand that speech is made up of units of sound that can be isolated either verbally or in writing or reading.

 

Cx

Edited September 9, 2012 by catma

[Guest]

So this would be more for when they actually start using letters in their writing then?

I have a little one who is still at the "squiggle" stage, but makes distinct squiggles for each word, and breaks words into sound chunks as she is "writing" ie

"hap-py bir-th-day dad-dy" She uses no recognisible letters, but does leave gaps between marks...

[Susan]

I have a little one who is still at the "squiggle" stage, but makes distinct squiggles for each word, and breaks words into sound chunks as she is "writing" ie

"hap-py bir-th-day dad-dy" She uses no recognisible letters, but does leave gaps between marks...

 

I would say that is an excellent example of the statement in question.

[Guest]

phewww...this is what I thought it meant. Never thought to ask on here though! Thanks for raising it dbrowne 1976

[dreamgirl]

So the statement doesn't apply to talking only? It applies then to writing only????

[catma]

It would apply to understanding, but is generally evidenced through writing, because that is where you have to do it most at that stage of writing development.

cx

[Guest]

I have never, ever highlighted this one in any of my lj's!

[catma]

From my experience it is a very end of nursery, reception aged writing milestone.

[Susan]

I agree Catma, some children find that very difficult.

[heidishubrook]

I really need help on this statement! I'm trying to plan an activity for my baseline assessments around this. Could any one give me any ideas how I could do this? We have a few writers already in class and I don't know what would be the best way to assess this.

 

Thank you so much in advance.

[catma]

Just looking at their writing will tell you - rather than trying to test for it. Analyse how they write rather than what. Try looking at this, which shows the stages of development http://fourblock.wikispaces.com/file/view/StagesofWritinghandout.pdf. This is referenced to the the classic text for writing develoment http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_beginnings_of_writing.html?id=jyMEAQAAIAAJ&redir_esc=y.

 

Cx

[green hippo]

I'd love to have a look at this Catma but the link is not working for me.

Green Hippo x

[heidishubrook]

Hi Catma,

 

Thanks for your reply. So am I right in thinking that I would be looking for separated words within the prephonemic stage? As the example shows

 

's se suan'?

 

Thank you so much.

 

Heidi

[heidishubrook]

I'd love to have a look at this Catma but the link is not working for me.

Green Hippo x

 

Hi the link is http://fourblock.wikispaces.com/file/view/StagesofWritinghandout.pdf

 

Heidi

[catma]

So am I right in thinking that I would be looking for separated words within the prephonemic stage?

 

That's the one.

 

 

Cx

[green hippo]

Thanks - it has worked!

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