NEW: LIVE ONLINE: Rebooting your Guided Reading Programme (Morning 9.00 am to 12 pm)

Course date: 17th Jun 2025

A half-day online course to maximise the impact of guided reading lessons.
Do you want to revisit guided reading to make it a more effective part of your reading policy?
This course will help you to refresh these sessions with new activities and tools to engage pupils and explore ways to make planning easier for teachers.
We will:

  • Examine the structure of a guided reading lesson and consider how to focus on a learning intention
  • Look at ways to begin a session with an energetic starter to enhance pupils’ vocabulary banks and help them to understand how language works.
  • Consider how to include stopping points to promote discussion about a text’s features
  • Explore tools and activities that will help pupils to investigate text

With a new toolkit, you can strengthen your school’s guided reading programme.

£125.00 + VAT (20%)

Target Group: AoLE Leads, Primary Teachers

Course objectives

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.