Literacy and Reading
Reading Intervention and Reading Across the Curriculum Overview 2024-25
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Autumn Term |
Spring Term |
Summer Term |
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Screening
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Triangulate Y7 KS2 SATs, Exact & Star Reading Assessment at the start of term.
Y8 Lexia baseline assessment Y9 Exact re-assessment Reading Quest baseline assessment for weakest readers with standardised scores of 84 or below Y7.
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Y7 Star Reading Assessment |
Y7 Star Reading Assessment |
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Screening of all new in-year starts using Exact |
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Tier One – all students |
Y7 & Y8 daily DEAR for 20 minutes each day Y7 Accelerated Reader lesson in PD & L4L fortnightly Y8 Reading Challenges in L4L fortnightly Y9 & Y10 Pre-Read, Read, Respond in L4L fortnightly |
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Literacy across the curriculum strategies: Rosenshine’s Principles, Pre-Read, Read, Respond, Tier 2 & 3 vocab, Big Five Reading Comprehension Strategies & Disciplinary Literacy as whole school priority for subject specific reading skills. |
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Tier Two – out of class group intervention
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Year 7 Paired Reading with sixth formers for selected students - 10 week programme |
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Y8 - Lexia PowerUp twice a week for selected students Y8 Paired Reading with sixth formers for selected students - 10 week programme |
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Y9 - Lexia PowerUp twice a week for selected students Y9 Paired Reading with sixth formers for selected students - 10 week programme |
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Tier Three – curriculum intervention or 1:1/1:2 intervention |
Lexia PowerUp for curriculum withdrawal lessons & GCSE Option Support. Reading Quest for selected students in Learning Support or L4L for decoding and phonics intervention for students in Years 7, 8 & 9. |
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Underpinning all these strategies and interventions is the work led by faculties in developing disciplinary literacy in their subject areas, so that students are able to learn how to talk, read and write like subject specialists.