Preparing for a Deep Dive in Reading
By Dawn Robertson
Date & Time: Friday 17th November 2023 - 9.00am - 3.30pm
Venue: Madeleine Lindley Ltd, Book Centre, Chadderton, Oldham, OL9 9XA
Overview:
Reading is a priority for all schools, especially with Ofsted committed to a deep exploration of reading in each primary, infant and junior school. This course will support all Reading Leaders to be able to audit, evaluate and improve the teaching of reading in their school.
The training will look at the priorities of a deep dive and whether your current reading curriculum would stand up to a deep dive during your inspection. Delegates will have an opportunity to carefully consider the quality of the intent, implementation and impact of their school’s reading curriculum. The Reading Framework – teaching the foundations of literacy , that was published in July 2021 , will be examined in detail as this is a document that should have an impact on schools’ practice.
Time will be spent looking at how the different elements of reading can be enhanced, including reading for pleasure, using a systematic synthetic phonics programme effectively, delivering and monitoring whole class, guided and individual reading, the raising of comprehension skills including explicit teaching of vocabulary and fluency, developing library provision and the issues surrounding reading assessment and testing. The demanding expectations of the English curriculum and the focus on the assessable elements at the end of KS 1 and KS 2 will also be explored.
During the training you will be given a wealth of strategies and resources that you will be able to take immediately back into the classroom and use to stimulate and invigorate the effective teaching of reading. These will include using a wide variety of fiction, non-fiction and poetry texts to illustrate how to move your school forward.
Objectives:
· To examine the National Curriculum and the expectations for reading that it specifies.
· To explore effective ways to develop reading comprehension throughout school to ensure that pupils use their oral and decoding skills effectively.
· To investigate how teachers can develop themselves as readers and see the school as a reading community.
· To share ideas about how to develop the reading environments throughout the school, including the library area.
· To spend time examining how reading for pleasure can become embedded throughout school.
· To examine how to focus on the bottom 20% of pupils and deliver effective interventions that can be monitored and evaluated.
· To share the latest texts that can be used to engage pupils in their love of reading and to read across the curriculum.
· To share ideas about how to involve parents in the reading process more effectively.
Tickets include unlimited tea, coffee and refreshments, along with lunch. If you do have any dietary requirements, please make us aware of this on the booking form
