Do you have a child like this in your school?

Video clip 1 - ‘before’

This is the same child after receiving effective help with his reading.

Video clip 2 – ‘after’

Every Child a Reader

• Works with children like Rhys• Literacy interventions – Year 1 and Year 2 children • Purpose is to ensure that every child achieves age-

related expectations at the end of Key Stage 1• Funds schools to employ and train specialist Reading

Recovery (RR) teachers …

… who deliver daily one-to-one Reading Recovery teaching for those children with the most severe difficulties, and provide training. They provide coaching and support to other adults (usually teaching assistants) who deliver lighter-touch interventions such as Fischer Family Trust Wave 3, Better Reading Partnership and Early Literacy Support for children with less severe needs.

Reading Recovery

• Six year-olds

• Half an hour a day for 12–20 weeks

• Specially trained teachers

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Why Reading Recovery?• Children on the programme make, on average, four

times the normal rate of progress – far in excess of other interventions

• There is good evidence that the initial impact doesn’t ‘wash out’

• More than half the children, the very slowest learners in their class when they were six, go on to achieve national targets four years later

• Established programme with 13 years’ experience of working in UK, an infrastructure and quality assurance

From here…

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to here…in 38.5 hours of teaching

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On entry to Reading Recovery

14 weeks later

High expectations are realistic in Reading Recovery

BAS reading age

Entry 4 years 10 months

Discontinuing (the 8 out of 10 judged to have caught up completely with their peers)

6 years 7 months

Referred (the 2 out of 10 referred for further help)

5 years 7 months

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Raising standards in your school

• At end of Key Stage 1, 72% of all children taught attain level 2 or above in reading and 71% attain level 2 in writing

• At end of Key Stage 2: – four out of five reached level 3 or above – more than half reached level 4 or above– if received Reading Recovery in Year 1, three out

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Schools that participated in the Every Child a Reader pilot saw an increase of 2% points in the percentage of pupils achieving level 2+

in reading, compared with a decrease of 1% point in maintained mainstream schools nationally

The children say...

‘I don’t need help. I’m clever now.’

A child in care in Liverpool

‘I can read now. I’m the only one in my

family who can read.’

‘It’s changed my bloomin’ life!’

Changing lives

‘In the first three years of school, educators have their one and only chance to upset the correlation between intelligence measures, social class and literacy progress, and between initial progress and later progress.’

Dame Marie Clay

Not just a literacy issue

• 70% of pupils permanently excluded from school have literacy difficulties

• 25% of young offenders have reading skills below those of an average 7 year old

• 60% of the prison population have literacy difficulties• Other long-term consequences – unemployment or low-

paid work, mental health problems

Employment

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Costs for one age cohort of pupils below level 3 end Key Stage 2, to age 37, are £2.0 billion

Every Child a Reader

• Began as a £10 million initiative funded by business, charities and government

• Now picked up by government

Government plans

• ‘Every Child a Reader scheme will be rolled out nationally over the CSR07 period, benefiting over 30,000 children a year by 2010–11’

Gordon Brown, December 2006

• From 2008, part-funding for schools to retain already trained teachers

• Many more teachers trained and local authority areas involved between now and 2011

Every Child a Reader needs headteachers with courage

• Need to contribute a proportion of the costs

• CVA will be lower in Key Stage 2 when standards rise in Key Stage 1

• Staff room dynamics – one-to-one teaching can be perceived as a luxury or an ‘easy job’ unless all staff understand they have a stake in the outcomes

Costs and savings• Providing Reading Recovery costs around

£2,400 per child• Providing special needs and behaviour

support throughout Key Stage 2 for the same child costs around £2,200

• Providing special needs and behaviour support throughout Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4 for the same child costs around £3,500

Reading Recovery in your school?

What happens in Reading Recovery lessons?

• Detailed diagnostic assessment at start that is ongoing

• Child reads many books, a new one every day• Child learns about phonics and high-frequency words

for reading and writing• Child writes their own text every day and reconstructs

it• Homework includes books to read for fluency and cut

up stories to reconstruct

Reading Recovery teacher training

• 22 half day sessions spread over a year• Interweaving theory and practice• Teachers observe and analyse live

lessons• Additional teacher receives training in

assessment techniques

What is needed to operate Reading Recovery in your school?

• Teacher who serves four children individually, daily, for half an hour

• A space free from distractions with access to books and resources

• A few basic resources• Organise for children to be taken to training sessions• Another teacher trained in assessment• Liaison between class teacher(s) and Reading

Recovery teacher• Home–school links• Support for wider impact on literacy in school

Getting the best from Reading Recovery

A teacher in a cupboard, or a whole-school approach that is effectively led and managed?

Roles for the Reading Recovery teacher

• Advising on choice of interventions• Assessment to match the right form of support

to the children• Training and coaching teaching assistants

and others• Monitoring the quality of interventions• Evaluation

Acknowledgements

Slide 11 - Extract from Randell, B et al. Dressing Up. Nelson Price Milburn Ltd, 1995. © Nelson Price Milburn Ltd 2007. Used with kind permission.

Slide 12 - Extract from Smith, A et al. Toby and the Accident. Nelson Price Milburn Ltd, 1998. © Nelson Price Milburn Ltd 2007. Used with kind permission.

Slide 20 - Clay, M. (2005) Literacy Lessons Designed for Individuals, Part 1: Why? When? and How?, Heinemann. © Copyright 2007 Pearson Education. Used with kind permission.