Struggling Readers and Writers

  • Strategies to improve reading and writing
    for the lowest-achieving pupils in KS2 and KS3

  • Help lower achievers understand and apply the
    more demanding aspects of the national curriculum

  • Practical tips to get the best from all students
  • Provide effective marking and feedback to enable struggling learners to improve
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The national context

Unpick the demands of the reading and writing statutory requirements

Revisit the core skills of reading and writing

Easy to implement, practical ideas for:

Developing the habit of reading widely in all pupils, to include:

  • Boys

  • The disengaged

Building key skills in older readers by using picture books

Encouraging the use of book talk

Unpicking ways of widening pupil’s vocabulary

Helping to build a pupil’s stamina for writing

Help vulnerable students achieve their potential

Provide strategies for improving spelling

Demonstrate how modelled writing builds understanding

Promote positive techniques for marking and feedback

Encourgage greater pupil reflection and self evaluation

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Subject

English & Literacy

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