This session provides practical guidance on ensuring that every learner can engage with reading. By grounding our strategy in Uta Frith’s Three Stages of Reading Acquisition and Scarborough’s Reading Rope, we explore how to bridge the gap between theory and the classroom, ensuring that support is robust and inclusive.
Learning Objectives
- Share evidence-based approaches to teaching reading that support every pupil
- Understand how to apply the Three Stages of Reading and the Reading Rope to daily practice
- Identify strategies to make reading accessible for learners with diverse and complex needs.
Learning Outcomes
- Enable all learners to access reading, including those with complex needs and PMLD
- Assess and track reading progress effectively across all ability levels
- Implement proven methods that remove barriers to reading for every student.
Audience: All settings with a high number of significant need including mainstream, specialist provisions, SRBs (Specialist Resource Bases), Enhanced SEND Provisions (ESPs), SHIPS.
