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The Highland Council
5-14 Reading programme has been drawn up by a number of colleagues from
various schools across the authority.
For consistency across
the authority, it is expected that schools will use the new 5-14 reading
programme within their schools or have an equivalent programme that meets
the 5-14 attainment targets.
Schools should decide
on the best way to use the programme and can customise it to suit their
own circumstances, as the programme has been designed to make it as
flexible as possible.
The reading programme
has been written taking account of best practice in the teaching of
reading and emphasises the link between reading and writing. The reading
programme recommends the use of ‘big’books/shared texts to teach and model
many of the features and structures of both reading and writing texts. The
use of ‘conferencing and trio’ work that has been successful in the North
Lanarkshire model for writing has been extended into the teaching of
reading. There are also clear links to the Listening and Talking
programme.
The programme follows
the principles of using the processes of before,during and after
reading activities and skills to assist pupils in reading for information.
This may require school based support and CPD for staff.
Many of these principles of the teaching of reading have been incorporated
into 2 teaching packages from North Lanarkshire Council ‘Another look at
Reading’ and ‘Reading for Information’ (see resource list).
The programme has been
developed so that it can be used as a medium term forward plan. The 5-14
targets for each strand at levels A-E have been broken down into more
specific targets for learning and teaching purposes. It is not
proposed that individual pupils will be assessed on each criterion.
In most cases there
would be no requirement for comments to be written about average pupils
who have attained the criteria.
The section for ‘next
steps for learning and teaching’ could include comments on:
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further work to be
undertaken
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pupils/groups who
have not met/overtaken the assessment criteria
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how teachers may
adapt teaching and learning tasks in the future
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areas to be
reviewed/reassessed
-
pace of learning
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other agency
involvement
The programme has a
number of activities that can be undertaken but teachers are not
expected to undertake every one that is listed. However teachers are
expected to cover all the main 5-14 targets.
It is suggested that
teachers highlight the assessment criteria, activities, assessment
evidence and resources they will undertake, either electronically or on
paper.
Suggested resources
have been included and wherever possible the sources for the resources
have been identified. Schools should amend the resources column to suit
their own circumstances. To assist teachers in delivering the programme
there is a bank of support materials on the website.
Schools may wish to
record further details of the activities in their daily/weekly plans e.g.
the specific resource, whether class/group/individual activity etc. |