Primary Reading CPD

Are you a Primary school looking to further consider spoken language in your English curriculum? Do you want to develop the teaching of conventions of spoken language to enable your pupils to speak well in a range of contexts?

This session will provide guidance on ways to create an explicit curriculum for developing spoken language. You will have a firm understanding of:

• Understanding of progression across the primary phase​

• Consistent strategies to support learning​

• The role of the teacher in developing effective interaction ​

• The conventions of spoken language

• Assessment of spoken language

Do your pupils have mixed attitudes towards reading? Are you keen to develop long lasting reading habits for your learners in KS2 and beyond?

This course will enable English / reading subject leads to understand the current provision in their schools and develop ways to motivate pupils to read for pleasure and create communities of readers.

You will have a firm understanding of:

• A range of audits to understand current position and set next steps

• Environments for reading

• Strategies to motivate pupils and develop a love of reading

• Children’s and young adult’s literature

This professional development opportunity will provide details of the expectations for teachers that are new to  Year 6. Delegates will explore the details of the STA summative assessments for reading; the exemplifications materials for writing and the National Curriculum  expectations for grammar, punctuation and spelling.

No gaps in knowledge here! The sessions will be full of practical ideas to support teaching, accurate assessment and next steps.

Do you have children who have English as an Additional Language in your school? This professional development will provide ideas, strategies and approaches for supporting with English as an Additional Language within a rich literacy curriculum. You will explore a range of:

• High quality children’s literature

• Teaching strategies and activities to support the needs of EAL learners as part of Quality first Teaching

• Ways to address the distinct needs of bilingual learners

Are you looking for clarity on how to build fluency and comprehension across the primary phase?  Are you looking to support children to control the pace and intonation of their reading?  Do you need guidance on supporting the development of comprehension skills? This course enables teaching staff and additional adults to confidently plan and teach reading fluency and comprehension. You will have a firm understanding of:

• What reading fluency and comprehension is

• Strategies to develop reading fluency and comprehension

• Audits for improvement and next steps

• Effective assessment of reading fluency

Do you have children who are struggling with word reading?

Is progression and pace difficult to secure for some of your children?

This course enables delegates to have a clear of understanding of the barriers to reading progression and strategies and scaffolds to support improvement. You will have a firm understanding of:

• The foundations of word reading

• Ways to support and scaffold struggling readers

• Analysing reading and providing effective instruction and next steps

• Securing fluency