| What’s the problem? | Reading attitudes in children involved with inclusion service – i.e. attending an inclusion base.
How are practitioners supporting? Are there strategies we are not using, which may support. Negative reading attitudes –> decreased reading attainment –> impact on learning in school, life-long learning, attainment gap, life chances, job opportunities Many children attending inclusion base have negative experiences of school. Literacy often a trigger for behaviour/refusal. Reading often not viewed positively. Attainment gap, especially following Covid lockdown. Children attending assessment placements – focus on reading, writing and numeracy.
NIF – improvement in attainment, particularly in literacy and numeracy, and closing the attainment gap. This is more important than ever following the predicted widening of the attainment gap due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic (Markowitz, 2020). One of Dumfries and Galloway council’s priorities is to “Provide the best start in life for all our children” with a further statement to “Raise ambition and attainment, in particular to address inequalities”. The service improvement plan for the inclusion base aims to “provide excellence and equity for pupils through raising attainment in Numeracy and Literacy, by using individualised assessments and to provide smart planning based on assessment results”. |
| What’s already known? | Google scholar, EBSCO – research literature review.
Qualitative approach as focusing upon opinions and beliefs through interviewing colleagues (inclusion practitioners) |
| How will you know what happened? | The aim is to create a bank/toolkit of strategies that are and can be used within an inclusion base setting.
Toolkit will be created through staff interviews on their belief and strategies. Change will be measured via scaled entry and exit surveys with the children undertaking an inclusion placement (six week placements in the first instance). Pupil voice collected about which reading strategies are used with them/ what helps promote a love of reading Implement the idea |
| What happened? | What data did you collect?
Practitioner opinions – strategy bank Pupil voice – comments, scaled surveys PM benchmarking – at start and end of placement What does that tell you? The strategy bank will help collect and collate a range of strategies we can use to promote positive reading attitudes. Pupil voice will record what strategies work, surveys will record how effective our strategies are and PM benchmarking will provide tangible quantifiable results on impact upon attainment. |
| What have you learnt? | How are you going to change your practice?
Using a wider range of strategies to help promote reading attitudes. |
| How will you share? | Who:
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