Accomplish Reading after Phonics

Overview of the programme:

WORKSHOP 1 – EMBEDDING READING CULTURE- The foundations for teaching children to ‘become readers’. 2nd October, 1pm-4pm

-Resourcing a strong reading culture at all levels, library, book corners, curriculum, story time, reading lessons, book led writing curriculum.

-Creating a reading environment that sings reading and promotes text.

-Creating places and spaces to read and opportunities to read

-Developing reader identity / knowing your own reader identity and that of others

- Building informal book talk

WORKSHOP 2 – UNDERSTANDING THE PRINCIPLES AND RESOURCING OF TEACHING READING BEYOND PHONICS

4th December, 1pm-4pm

-Understanding the purpose of teaching reading beyond Phonics

-Recognising and building a spine of quality texts that challenge children to become even better readers

-Exploring methods for structuring reading spines and text choices

-Looking at models for pitching texts so that challenge in reading is built into the structure of the reading curriculum

WORKSHOP 3 - EMBEDDING READING FLUENCY AND VOCABULARY INSTRUCTION

29th January, 1pm-4pm

-Unpicking the key importance of vocabulary in being a fluent reader.

-The role fluency plays as the bridge from decoding to comprehension

-Modelling vocabulary instruction linked to the principles of retrieval practice

-Modelling whole class reading fluency practice

-Text choice for fluency

-Assessing and planning for fluency practice Y2 – 6

WORKSHOP 4 – UNDERSTANDING AND DEVELOPING COMPREHENSION

2nd April, 1pm-4pm

-Modelling situation modelling and comprehension monitoring

-Supporting the teaching of situation modelling and comprehension monitoring

-Unpicking and defining the key components of inference

-Exploring effective formal book talk through reading lessons

-Modelling and unpicking close reading comprehension

-Modelling and unpicking extended reading comprehension

Workshop 5 – SUPPORTING WEAKER READERS TO KEEP UP IN KS2

20th May, 1pm-4pm

-Diagnosing the underlying causes for pupils who find reading hard

-Triaging pathways for additional support

-What must be in place for children who have not yet mastered Decoding

-Strategies for supporting pupils who find fluency particularly challenging

-Strategies for those pupils who find comprehension a struggle

Workshop 6 – READING AND ASSESSMENT V READING FOR PLEASURE

26th June, 1pm-4pm

-When we assess reading, what are we assessing?

-Should reading assessment always be the same throughout primary school?

-How should we assess reading at different stages? What do we want to find out and how will we use the outcomes to inform next steps?

-Statutory Assessment of reading alongside building a reader and the reading for pleasure culture

Cost of the full programme

£300 per delegate for the full programme

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Townville Infants School, Poplar Avenue, Castleford, United Kingdom