workshop delivered as part of whole Academy CPD programme.

1. Literacy- Reading the Route to
Success
CPD Programme 19th October 2011
Sarah Masters
Jonathan Sim
Martin Fehrenbach

2. Reasons for children to read
• It can inform and entertain. Reading can be fun
• It can fire a child`s imagination and increase their general
knowledge and their awareness of the world
• Has been proven to improve a child`s vocabulary, spelling
and levels of comprehension
• Gives children more confidence when speaking and enables
them to take part in discussions on a wide range of topics
• Has a positive impact on their emotional and social
behaviour
• Can be habit forming. Children who say they enjoy reading
are more likely to continue with it into adulthood and
encourage their own children to read
• Opportunity for “Lifelong learning”

3. 7 Steps to Success: DEAR not SDASU
Step One: Use DEAR Homepage at least once each cycle
Step Two: Whole College have DEAR on same day
Step Three: Read Out Loud
Step Four: Drop Everything And Read Everyday
Step Five: Create a College Book Wall
Step Six: Accept your invitation to visit the MRC
Step Seven: Get Creative

4. 7 Steps to Success: DEAR not SDASU
Step One: Use DEAR Homepage at least once each cycle.
(Why not work in pairs/clusters to use the DEAR support pages and plan collectively)
Click
Picture to
watch
short clip
on where
to find the
DEAR
Homepage
and a
quick
glimpse at
what you
can find
there!

5. 7 Steps to Success: DEAR not SDASU
Step One: Use DEAR Homepage at least once each cycle.

6. 7 Steps to Success: DEAR not SDASU
Step Two: Whole College have DEAR on same day
Whole College Drops Everything And
Reads.....
Including Admin; Technicians.... And
College Leaders!
Get a whole ‘atmosphere’ going, allow for
habit forming.
This will also allow for: splitting groups by
KS or Gender.
Share a girlie book with just the girls, or a
boyish book with just the lads.
Or
something nice and easy with KS3 and
something ‘dangerous’ with KS4

7. 7 Steps to Success: DEAR not SDASU
Step Two: Whole College have DEAR on same day

8. 7 Steps to Success: DEAR not SDASU
Step Three: Read Out Loud
As a Tutor you can easily model reading.
Have the DEAR Homepage extract on a
screen so tutees can follow along and
discover “Oh, that’s how you say that word”
OR/AND
Read a whole book over a term.
–Your choice... Their choice?
OR/AND Click to watch the video
(you don’t have to watch it all now)
Allow buddy reading, borrow a set of Books
from the MRC for group reading.

9. 7 Steps to Success: DEAR not SDASU
Step Three: Read Out Loud

10. 7 Steps to Success: DEAR not SDASU
Step Four: Drop Everything And Read Everyday
In addition to the 30 minute DEAR session
allow for a quick burst of reading
everyday. (5-10 minutes)
A chapter of the ongoing story.
Todays’ newspapers online.
Allow & reward reading for pleasure.
Click to watch the
video
(you don’t have
to watch it all
now)

11. 7 Steps to Success: DEAR not SDASU
Step Four: Drop Everything And Read Everyday

12. 7 Steps to Success: DEAR not SDASU
Step Five: Create a College Book Wall
Find a Display area for creating a
Book Wall which can include:
Author profiles;
Book reviews;
Get caught Reading photos;
Polls;
Quotes;
Themed by Genre;
Front Cover Designs;
Display run by different tutor group
each month/term.

13. 7 Steps to Success: DEAR not SDASU
Step Five: Create a College Book Wall

14. 7 Steps to Success: DEAR not SDASU
Step Six: Accept your invitation to visit the MRC
Okay, so you won’t all be able to spend Author GP Taylor
meets tutor group
time with visiting Authors like the top
C ABa
four borrowing Tutor groups did in June.
But your tutor group will be invited to
spend time browsing in the MRC.
Many students complain that they don’t
get enough time to just explore the books
in the MRC.
Taking time to choose a book right for
them is half the battle.
MRC Staff are on hand to offer
suggestions for those tricky students!

15. 7 Steps to Success: DEAR not SDASU
Step Six: Accept your invitation to visit the MRC

16. 7 Steps to Success: DEAR not SDASU
Step Seven: Get Creative
Use Photostory to create a moving book review, or a Book Trailer
Click Screen to
watch a
Photostory
example
(just watch the
beginning to get
an idea)

17. 7 Steps to Success: DEAR not SDASU
Step Seven: Get Creative

18. 7 Steps to Success: DEAR not SDASU
Step Seven: Get Creative
G:
MRC
WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE