Welcome to our course on Great Literacy Teaching in Primary Schools for class teachers & teaching assistants from early years to Year 6. This course is designed to equip educators with the latest strategies and insights to enhance literacy instruction, ensuring that every child develops strong reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills.
Literacy is the cornerstone of a child’s education, opening doors to all other areas of learning. Effective literacy teaching not only improves academic performance but also fosters a lifelong love of reading and learning. The EEF has found that learners improve most consistently when the approach to reading and literacy is balanced, combining a focus on reading comprehension and the decoding of words.
In this course, we will explore evidence-based practices that have been shown to significantly improve literacy outcomes in primary school students.
Great Literacy Teaching: Key learning objectives
- To have a clear understanding of the process of learning to read and that it is both cumulative and developmental.
- To develop interactive teaching strategies, including those for pupils with SEND, that will allow learners of all abilities and backgrounds to access provision.
- To understand the importance of language comprehension, speaking and listening from Early Years through to Year 6 and to know how to implement it in daily classroom practice.
- To understand how reading and high quality writing are intrinsically linked.
- To know how to access high quality texts and implement them across the curriculum.
Why book this INSET?
By the end of this course, primary teachers & TAs will have a comprehensive toolkit of strategies to support their students’ literacy development, tailored to their individual needs and abilities. This will equip them to inspire and uplift the literacy capabilities of their students, thereby laying a robust groundwork for lifelong learning and success in their academic and personal endeavours.
Great Literacy Teaching INSET Outline
Key topics covered will include:
Developing Speaking and Listening Skills
Enhancing students’ oral language abilities is crucial for their overall literacy development
Engaging Reading Approaches
Integrating decoding and comprehension skills to make reading both effective and enjoyable
Systematic Phonics Programs
Implementing structured phonics instruction to build foundational reading skills
Reading Comprehension Strategies
Teaching students how to understand and interpret texts effectively
Writing Planning and Monitoring
Guiding students in organizing their thoughts and monitoring their writing progress
Fluent Written Transcription
Encouraging practice and explicit teaching of spelling and handwriting to improve writing fluency
Starting with conceptual examples, we will look at the teaching of phonics and shared reading across all key stages taking into account the needs of the individual learner, with particular focus on language comprehension and fluency. We will explore the interdependent relationship between reading and writing and how to help our learners become reflective and critical.
With clear reference to The Reading Framework throughout, you will gain knowledge of research backed implementation strategies and gather ideas of how to build a literacy rich environment as well as guidance on selecting texts for use across the curriculum.
