3 years ago, we made 📖reading for pleasure📚our focus @FearnhillSchool. 56% of yr 7 cohort had below chronological age reading age and 29% struggled with phonics. So, how did we do it? Here's 1 powerful thing we did that worked. #teamenglish #Reading @FearnhillSchool We started with the English KS3 curriculum by teaching yr 7 & 8 2 challenging novels back-2-back according to the 'faster read' approach from the @SussexUni 'Just reading' study where 2 novels are read at a faster pace, pausing for vocab work and comprehension checking.

@FearnhillSchool has recently gone from RI to Good and our approach to reading across school was mentioned in the report as a strength. This thread outlines the way we run reading interventions and outlines some of the challenges and things that worked for us 🧵 We started by training a few key people to deliver reading fluency/echo reading sessions and administer the YARC test. Huge thanks goes to @HertsEnglish and @HfLSecondaryEng for their fantastic training and support.