LIVE ONLINE: Using Whole Class and Paired Reading to Boost Comprehension (Afternoon 1-30-3.30 pm)

Course date: 20th Nov 2024
Supporting Pupils to Become Independent, Thoughtful Readers

A half-day online course to enhance the teaching of reading comprehension.

When we scaffold our reading instruction to include teacher modelling, whole class discussion and purposeful pair and group work, we allow pupils to learn and practise the comprehension skills necessary for independence.

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Target Group: AoLE Leads, Primary Teachers in PS2 and PS3
In this session, we will consider how to:
  • Use talk to build a supportive, positive community of readers
  • Slow down the reading process so that pupils can identify and understand how they make meaning whilst reading
  • Identify a sequence of activities to move from whole class discussion to group and/or paired text investigations
  • Create anchor charts that capture pupils’ learning and thinking in the language they use.

Course Presenter: Stephanie Vaughan

ENGLISH AND LITERACY - Stephanie Vaughan has been working in education for over 25 years and is an experienced classroom practitioner, who understands the challenges teachers face providing a relevant and purposeful curriculum. She was, until recently, the Literacy Lead Advisor for Swansea; therefore, she has extensive experience of providing training and in-school support for primary teachers in English and whole school literacy. In addition, extensive pupil data from schools across Swansea proves that her training definitely raises standards. Stephanie Vaughan is the author of The Eight Reading Behaviours and The Reading Journey, a new and comprehensive innovative resource that teaches pupils to read with enjoyment and purpose. She has also developed many of her own literacy strategies, such as The Writing Wheel and accompanying activities that help pupils to learn the steps in the writing process. She has written detailed progression models for aspects of reading and writing that help teachers to unpick the LNF. A belief that pupils need to understand how to read and write independently underpins her work and she offers literacy lessons that are enjoyable, interactive, and skill-centred. Stephanie’s training provides teachers with practical, easily implemented, and engaging solutions to literacy problems, and she provides schools with extensive and varied resources, which, according to feedback, have proved extremely popular with teachers and pupils. Search for Courses

Course Location: LIVE ONLINE MEETING

Zoom or teams meeting 

What Happens Next?
  • Please provide Collective Learning with the email address of the person who will be attending the training.
  • Your presenter will email a meeting invitation link to the person who is attending so that they can join her live on the day.
  • The meeting room will only be available to those who have been sent the link and will be admitted to the room on the day.
  • All resource materials will be sent electronically to the attendee after the event.
NB: The attendee may choose to attend the training from their home base if this has been approved by the school.