Thread on whole school reading
1. In the last 3 months, I have written a whole school literacy strategy document for my school and revamped our reading and intervention programmes. We now talk about phonics intervention, reading fluency intervention...
1. In the last 3 months, I have written a whole school literacy strategy document for my school and revamped our reading and intervention programmes. We now talk about phonics intervention, reading fluency intervention...
2. We don't just look at reading ages, we now look at SAS, SC and PC data from our NGRT reading tests. The data is not just for our whole school lead, all staff now have access to them through SIMS
3. We don't just talk about the English department when it comes to teaching reading fluency, we now have a whole school schedule that all subjects contribute to. The target is for all students to have 4.5 hours of reading fluency teaching across subjects fortnightly.
4. We don't just talk about reading is just reading, we focus on strategies that involve teacher modelling and repeated practice by students. This is preceeded by explicit teaching of vocabulary
We have split our reading strategies into 3 sections: within the classroom, out of classroom and beyond school. Out of the classroom, students in years 7-10 have expert reading session in registration. All students also have a Bedrock lesson in registration.
6. We belive all students becoming fluent readers is a high impact strategy for my school and we have gone all in. The strategy document has a section for whole school shared language. We believe the language we use is really important for the culture we are working on.
7. We are focused on supporting older students that need decoding as an intervention. We are training more staff on phonics. It is a lot of work for a secondary school but we are prepared to do the work
8. I may blog about this at some point and present the work at a #rED conference next year.
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