Areas to cover:
• Importance of all children being able to read – unlocks their learning
• How to lead and prioritise reading in school- Early reading strategy, including systematic synthetic phonics
• How to implement this in a secondary SEN school/How to enable all staff to become experts at reading.
• Training for staff
• Assessment
• Tracking
• Managing staff
References: 245. In reaching an evaluation against the ‘quality of education’ judgement, inspectors will consider whether:
· the school is determined that every pupil will learn to read, regardless of their background, needs or abilities. All pupils, including the weakest readers, make sufficient progress to meet or exceed age-related expectations
· stories, poems, rhymes and non-fiction are chosen for reading to develop pupils’ vocabulary, language comprehension and love of reading. Pupils are familiar with and enjoy listening to a wide range of stories, poems, rhymes and non-fiction
· the school’s phonics programme matches or exceeds the expectations of the national curriculum and the EYFS early learning goals. The school has clear expectations of pupils’ phonics progress term by term, particularly from Reception to Year 2
· the sequence of reading books shows a cumulative progression in phonics knowledge that is matched closely to the school’s phonics programme. Teachers give pupils sufficient practice in reading and re-reading books that match the grapheme–phoneme correspondences they know, both at school and at home
· reading, including the teaching of systematic synthetic phonics, is taught from the beginning of Reception
· the ongoing assessment of pupils’ phonics progress is sufficiently frequent and detailed to identify any pupil who is falling behind the programme’s pace. If they do fall behind, targeted support is given immediately
· the school has developed sufficient expertise in the teaching of phonics and reading
‘Now the whole school is reading’: supporting struggling readers in secondary school - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/now-the-whole-school-is-reading-supporting-struggling-readers-in-secondary-school?s=03&fbclid=IwAR3WiABBeR3o5lc0qleYavmw8OETk6lvUkZcpTso9gvU3kTPLkTir06d2Dg
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