1 Reading at 6 Lessons learned from the CLLD Programme © Crown Copyright 2006

Aims To provide an update on the Phonic Screening Check To raise awareness of recent publications To share tracking documents from the CLLD programme

Documentation The Importance of Teaching: The Schools White Paper, 2010, Department for Education Reading by Six – How the best schools do it, Ofsted, 2010 Removing Barriers to Literacy, Ofsted, 2011 Response to public consultation on the Year 1 phonics screening check, Department for Education, 2011

Reading by 6 All children should be reading at 1a/2c by 6, the end of Y1. ‘ The diligent, concentrated and systematic teaching of phonics is central to the success of all the schools that achieve high reading standards in Key Stage 1’

Reading by 6: Recommendations Ensure a ‘critical focus’ on the teaching of phonic knowledge and skills. Use a high-quality synthetic phonics scheme. Training for staff Ensure rigorous monitoring of the implementation of the programme, including: – quality of the teaching – evaluation of the impact of the programme –application into reading and writing

Removing barriers to literacy teachers with high expectations for pupils’ achievements in literacy an emphasis on speaking and listening skills from an early age a rigorous, sequential approach to developing speaking and listening and teaching reading, writing and spelling through systematic phonics sharp assessment of progress in order to determine the most appropriate programme or support carefully planned provision to meet individual needs rigorous monitoring of the impact of provision high-quality pastoral care to support learning in literacy highly effective use of time, staff and resources.

The White Paper We will introduce a new age six reading check. This screening exercise will be designed to check that children are on track and to help schools in identifying those who need more support. Schools’ results will be reported through the RAISE Online database, which will allow teachers to analyse and improve their teaching practices.

Phonic Screening Check to date Pre-trial visits to 16 schools, November and December Year 1 Phonics Screening Check Consultation, closing date Feb, 2011 The response to the public consultation on the Year 1 phonic screening check is announced, March The check will be piloted in approximately 300 schools in June 2011.

Phonics screening check proposals The screening check will be statutory It will focus on phonic decoding It will comprise words and non-words There will be no more than 40 items (individual words to be read) It will take place during one week in mid-June It will be administered with a child reading to an adult; the recommendation is that it is a teacher It will take five to ten minutes approximately to administer (but there is no time limit)

Data The data will not be published in performance tables. The data will be published on RAISE Online.

The CLLD programme A national programme to ensure all children experience best practice in the teaching of early reading and phonics. 116 schools have been involved in the CLLD programme in Lancashire since 2008 (Burt and Maisie)

Lessons learnt from the CLLD programme Systematic daily phonics Application into reading and writing High expectations Pace of moving through the phases Development of early language through talk Accurate assessment and tracking to inform next steps Importance of monitoring and evaluation by a Senior Leader.

Systematic daily phonics Taught discretely and daily Set within a broad and rich language curriculum Brisk pace Systematic FUN

Phonic phases End of Reception – Secure at Phase 3 End of Year 1- Secure at Phase 5 Throughout Year 2 – Phase 6 - automaticity of phonic knowledge, moving into spelling rules. KS2 – phonics for those children who still need it.

Useful documents from CLLD Setting out a trajectory to secure Phase 3 by the end of Reception Phonics progress tracking sheet CLLD tracking sheet Traffic light document (progress data)

The reading and writing curriculum in YR and Y1 Every day –A discrete synthetic phonics session –Shared reading and/or writing –Opportunities to hear stories, poems, rhymes and non-fiction read aloud –Opportunities for independent reading and writing Twice a week – guided reading At least once at week – guided writing

From tiny seeds … September Reception June Year One

Next steps Review current practice Assess training needs Review resources DfE website – up to £3000 match funding available from June 2011 – March 2013.

Literacy website All documents are available on the Literacy website