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Read Write Inc.

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What do you like to READ?

Read Write Inc. is a reading intervention to help support learning within reading, aimed at P2-P5 children. Our Read Write Inc. programme provides a cohesive and creative approach to teaching children to read.

Here are some links for a little flavor of the teaching approaches if you want to have a browse at home…

How to teach sounds at home – this video will also help you check your pure sound pronunciation:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8m6YFr0gig

Parent Tutorial: Teaching Sound Blending

www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5BinxuGJXM

Fred talk blending:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEzfpod5w_Q

How to teach a ditty at home:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mhoa4oPkwbE

 

Support for Learning, Thinking Skills

Target Setting

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A really important part of a learner’s journey through school focuses on these key questions:

  1. What do you know?
  2. What do you enjoy/like?
  3. What would you like to get better at?
  4. How can we make these improvements?

Taking this into consideration, these last few weeks have involved lots of planned learner-teacher conversations, assessments and planned support interventions. There will be an opportunity to speak more about this process at the upcoming parent consultations, but for now, here’s just one way we have been documenting this… TARGET SETTING…

Thinking Skills, Working with others

Support for Learning 2017-2018

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Thank you to all the parents and carers who made it to Meet the Teacher, it was great to speak to lots of you and introduce myself and some of our team around Support for Learning.

If you couldn’t make it not worry, above you will see our key messages around Support for Learning this year.

 

Our S f L vision: Support for all learners, in all classrooms, by all staff. 

Where possible, the majority of support for our learners will take place in their own classrooms, with support from the class teacher, myself, pupil support workers, specialist staff and/or other agencies where relevant.

A huge focus for us this year at Williamston is both Numeracy and Literacy and these are our key areas of targeted support for Nursery to P7 children. Additionally we are hoping to start a nurture group, based around health and well-being needs and developing life skills…