Who is it for?
The training will empower the headteacher and reading leader and ensure that they feel confident to explain to governors and Ofsted how they have built an expert reading team to ensure all children make speedy progress in learning to read.
The training ensures you get best value for your investment in the Read Write Inc. programmes.
Leadership training provides opportunities to:
- develop expertise to lead your reading team through practice and coaching
- discuss solutions to reach every child with an expert trainer
- know how to make the most of the Online training subscription
- meet reading leaders from other Read Write Inc. schools.
The training
The six leadership trainings are for schools who have a current phonics training and support package. Please only book on if your school has access to the online training subscription.
New schools need to book Build and expert team with the office team, so they know when to activate the online subscription, and to confirm that the headteacher will be attending. The order of Days 2 and 6 is recommended below, but not essential. To contact our team, please complete our booking enquiry form.
Schools with an active online training subscription can add leadership days to their current package at a discounted rate via the RMT School Portal and book courses in any order here.
Free 30 minute online Leadership taster sessions for reading leaders and headteachers in schools using RWI Phonics
Find out why the six Leadership trainings are essential to:
- Develop an expert reading team
- Teach every child to read
- Get the best out of the programme in your school.
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If you are unable to attend an event you have booked onto, please cancel your booking through Eventbrite.
The training days
| Training and audience | Purpose | This training will show you how to: |
|---|---|---|
| Build an expert team: assessment, practice and coaching Headteacher Reading leader | To empower the headteacher and reading leader to lead on the things that will make the biggest difference to children’s reading progress: assessment, practice and coaching. | • build an expert team of reading teachers to ensure all children make speedy progress in learning to read. • implement our APC model of training: how to assess children’s progress, how to practise teaching the activities that will accelerate their progress, and how to coach teachers to become expert in every activity. • group children effectively and timetable teaching to make the best use of staff • introduce consistent learning behaviours across all lessons. |
| Make a strong start in Reception Reading leader Reception teacher | To ensure teachers make the most of children’s first term in Reception, so every child has a strong start in learning to read. | • hit the ground running in September using the ‘Making a Strong Start: A guide for Reception teachers’. • organise Reception groups for 20 minutes each day. • teach the activities that will make the biggest difference to children’s progress in the first term of Reception. |
| Teach every child to read: Fast Track Tutoring Reading leader Lead tutor | To be able to identify and teach children who need the most support one-to-one, using the tutoring steps in the Phonics Fast Track Tutoring handbook. | • use our incremental teaching steps along with the right manner ensures all children make progress in reading every day. • identify pupils for one-to-one tutoring. • use tutoring in-action films to think about how the teacher ‘uses’ the steps to ensure the child makes progress. |
| Progress from sounds to stories: Ditties and Red Storybooks Reading leader Reception/ Year 1 teacher | To accelerate children’s progress from sound-blending to reading short stories. | • accelerate children’s progress from sound-blending words to reading short stories using the reading and writing activities introduced at this stage. • establish effective partner routines to ensure all children participate. |
| Get to grips with graphemes: PSC Reading leaders Year 1 teacher | To know how to make sure every child can read accurately and succeed in the PSC. | • teach the hardest to remember graphemes to ensure they are memorable. • use assessment data to make the most of teaching time. |
| Focus on fluency: Yellow, Blue and Grey Storybooks Reading leader Year 2 teacher | To know how to help every child become a fluent reader by making sure they can decode longer unfamiliar words successfully and read familiar words speedily – ‘at a glance’. | • understand the importance of accuracy and speed in developing fluency. • increase children’s accuracy and automaticity in word reading. • teach the activities that will make the biggest difference to children’s progress in Yellow, Blue and Grey groups. |