Reading Strategy

Reading strategy – September 2022                                                              

Some students at Breckenbrough come to us with literacy and reading deficiencies, all students come needing to increase their reading confidence and literary understanding. Whilst at Breckenbrough, students will be provided with opportunities to improve their understanding of literacy through targeted approaches both personalised and using whole school approaches.

Like all schools we have access to both Pupil Premium and Catch-up Premium monies which allow us to use alternative approaches in improving students’ literacy levels.

Key Staff

Key people needed to implement the strategy are:

Katharine Barlow (Assistant Headteacher: SENCO), Aisling Hyland (Assistant Headteacher: Teaching & Learning), Didier Vastel (Literacy Coordinator), Claire Dwyer (Primary Coordinator)

Our ‘Improving Reading & Literacy’ Approach

DISCIPLINARY LITERACY

At Breckenbrough, all students will be given the opportunity to realise their literacy potential through a strategic approach to improving reading, writing and oracy. Each subject area has a responsibility to impart literary understanding about their subject content through targeted approaches as outlined in the EEF framework and research. Although not exhaustive, each subject area will use the following approaches to improve literacy across the curriculum.

The EEF and Research to base our actions upon                                         

 

Underpinning all this work will be a research-based approach using the EEF toolkit where appropriate. The EEF provide us with 7 recommendations for improving reading and literacy in the classroom

Education Endowment Foundation | EEF

 

Alongside our reading/literacy whole school strategy, we always look to encourage our students to read for pleasure, as this can often be the catalyst to better engagement with more complex texts within school. We do acknowledge that this can be difficult at times, as some students can be reluctant to read in their spare time and find reading to be anxiety inducing and stressful, rather than pleasurable. In many cases, a student can have a fear of reading based on traumatic experiences in previous settings. In order to promote reading for pleasure, we use several various activities shown below that showcase reading in a number of ways.

READING IS PROMOTED ACROSS SCHOOL BY:

 DEAR (DROP EVERYTHING AND READ)

• STAFF READING POSTERS AND DISPLAYS
• SUMMER READING CHALLENGE Y6 & Y7
• 100 “MUST READ” BOOKS
• READING ACHIEVEMENTS
• YEAR GROUP READING LISTS
• WORLD BOOK DAY