Better Reading Support Partners Training Dates 2015 / 2016

For details:

Contact me marie@mariekilgallonliteracy.co.uk or Call 01642 310313

http://www.mariekilgallonliteracy.co.uk/better-reading-support-partners-training-dates-2015-2016/

"Reading age achieved over six times improvement"

Better Reading Support Partners - Literacy Central is an independent education consultancy who believe that literacy is central to educational and life success. Working across the whole range of early years, primary and secondary provision and with other organisations, we offer tailored support and training that can be delivered onsite or at central venues.

Better Reading Support Partners Training

2015

Sept 23rd - 24th Redcar & Cleveland (TBD)

Oct 7th - 8th Darlington Hall Garth Hotel

Oct 14th - 15th Yorkshire (TBD)

Nov 11th - 12th North West (TBD)

Dec 2nd - 3rd North East (TBD)

2016

Jan 20th - 21st North West (TBD)

Feb 3rd - 4th Manchester (TBD)

Feb 24th - 25th Yorkshire (TBD)

Mar 9th - 10th (TBD)

Apr 27th - 28th (TBD)

May 11th - 12th (TBD)

June 15th - 16th Cedar Court W.Yorkshire

June 29th - 30th (TBD)

July 6th - 7th (TBD)

What is Better Reading Support Partners?

Better Reading Support Partners - BRSP is a ‘light touch’ reading intervention for pupils in Years 1 to 10 who have fallen behind at reading. A specially trained Better Reading Support Partner delivers a short one-to-one support programme to help them to develop independent reading and comprehension skills so that they can make accelerated progress and catch up with their peers. It has been developed by National Advisers from Edge Hill University in liaison with Bradford local authority, updating the authority’s earlier Better Reading Partnership, to provide a balanced approach to developing phonic skills, comprehension and the enjoyment of reading.

Who is it for?

Better Reading Support Partners raises the attainment of children who can read but who lack fluency, understanding and enjoyment and may need support with decoding skills, vocabulary and/or comprehension. It is for children in KS1 who have fallen slightly below the level of their peers and for children in KS2-3 whose reading age is below their chronological age.
It helps them to:

• decode the words on a page
• understand what they are reading
• read with greater pace and fluency
• confidently access a wider range of reading material
• develop independent reading skills
• enjoy and develop a long-lasting enthusiasm for reading.

How does it work for the pupils?

A Better Reading Support Partner provides a 10-week programme of three 15-minute one-to-one support sessions per week for selected pupils, using simple and effective assessments to inform the selection of a carefully structured sequence of texts that are finely tuned to the pupil’s skills and interests. Within a relaxed environment the pupil is given the time and space both to practice and apply their skills and to talk about their reading with an interested adult.

How does it work for schools?

The school selects one or more suitable TAs to train as Partners, e.g. a teaching assistant with successful experience of supporting children’s reading, and a link teacher who acts as the Better Reading Support Partner coordinator for the school, managing the partnership in school and linking with the school’s senior leadership team, class teachers and parents. Ideally, the coordinator is a member of the senior leadership team.

What training and support are available

A two-day training course for Partners and the link teacher that covers;

• organising and managing the intervention
• delivering BRSP sessions
• understanding the reading process
• talking with pupils about their reading and learning
• selecting suitable texts

Also included are:

• detailed handbook guidance
• online guidance and downloadable resources
• detailed analyses of children’s progress to help the school to evaluate and demonstrate the impact of Better Reading Support
• Partner telephone and e-mail support

The cost of the training is £300 per person for the two day course.

This includes all refreshments, programme handbook, and access to on-line guidance and resources. Detailed data analyses of pupil’s progress and a summary report for one year initially are included in the price of the training.

Better Reading Support Partners was trialled with 26 pupils in Years 1 to 7 by 14 schools in 2013. After only 17 sessions in 1.8 months, they made:

- an average Reading Age gain of 11.2 months
over six times the expected rate of progress

- an average Comprehension Age gain of 9.8 months
over five times the expected rate of progress

For more details:

Contact me marie@mariekilgallonliteracy.co.uk or Call 01642 310313

PLACES STILL AVAILABLE - BRSP TRAINING in Redcar and Cleveland

PLACES STILL AVAILABLE 

WEDNESDAY 4TH AND THURSDAY 5TH JUNE 2014

BETTER READING SUPPORT PARTNERS training available to head teachers and education providers at the Hall Garth Hotel and Country Club provided by Marie Kilgallon Associates Limited 

Better Reading Support Partners training was trialled with 26 pupils in Years 1 to 7 by 14 schools in 2013.  After only 17 sessions in 1.8 months, they made:

an average Reading Age gain of 11.2 months (over six times the expected rate of progress)
an average Comprehension Age gain of 9.8 months (over five times the expected rate of progress)

A two-day training course for Head teachers and educational leaders that covers:

• organising and managing the intervention
• delivering BRSP sessions
• understanding the reading process
• talking with pupils about their reading and learning
• selecting suitable texts

Also included are:

• detailed handbook guidance
• online guidance and downloadable resources
• telephone and e-mail support
• all refreshments

What is Better Reading Support Partners?

BRSP is a ‘light touch’ reading intervention for pupils in Years 1 to 10 who have fallen behind at reading.  A specially trained Better Reading Support Partner delivers a short one-to-one support programme to help them to develop independent reading and comprehension skills so that they can make accelerated progress and catch up with their peers. It has been developed by National Advisers from Edge Hill University in liaison with Bradford local authority, updating the authority’s earlier Better Reading Partnership, to provide a balanced approach to developing phonic skills, comprehension and the enjoyment of reading.

Better Reading Support Partners raises the attainment of children who can read but who lack fluency, understanding and enjoyment and may need support with decoding skills, vocabulary and/or comprehension.  It is for children in KS1 who have fallen slightly below the level of their peers and for children in KS2-3 whose reading age is below their chronological age.


The cost of the training is £300 per person for the two day course. 

Please contact:

Email: marie@mariekilgallonliteracy.co.uk

Telephone: (01642 )310313 or  07432 712 237

READING SUPPORT CONFERENCE WITH EDGE HILL UNIVERSITY

The Reading Support Conference is being delivered on Monday March 17th and Monday March 24th. Edge Hill University is holding the conference for School Head Teachers and Senior Managers. I am proud to announce that I'll be delivering a workshop for Better Reading Support Partners as the Reading Support National Adviser. The conference charge is £100+VAT for each delegate. This will be an opportunity for teaching professionals to: 

 - hear from national experts and leading pracitioners 
 - reflect upon how to maximise the impact of reading interventions in your school
 - find out about the suite of Reading Support interventions
 - network and share best practice with colleagues

Better Reading Support Partners

Better Reading Support Partners is a ‘light touch’ reading intervention for children in Years 1 to 10 who have fallen behind at reading. A Better Reading Support Partner, normally a teaching assistant or a volunteer, supports children individually, three times a week. The child reads three books in a session and the Partner prompts and supports them and discusses the books with them. The Partner has 2 days of training and is supported by a link teacher. 

In 2013, children achieved an average Reading Age gain of 11 months after only 2 months of BRSP support. Their comprehension ages rose by 10 months. 

Better Reading Support Partners was developed by Reading Support in partnership with Bradford Metropolitan District Council. It has updated and replaced Bradford’s former Better Reading Partnership.

Contact Details

Please call 01257 517107 and for further details check the link below.

https://readingsupport.edgehill.ac.uk/erc-for-schools/reading-support-conferences/

PROJECT X CODE via EDGE HILL UNIVERSITY and OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Marie Kilgallon is an Independent Education Consultant who specialises in Literacy and Synthetic Phonics.

Project X Code is a new reading intervention from Oxford University Press. It embeds systematic synthetic phonics into a gripping series of adventure books that is targeted at struggling readers in Years 2 to 4 who are not on track to achieve appropriate levels for their age.

Edge Hill University, in partnership with Oxford University Press, provides training to help teachers or teaching assistants to deliver it effectively to children who need a helping hand to develop phonics and comprehension skills and a love of reading. The training ensures maximum impact from the intervention.

Marie Killgallon Associates Ltd., shall be providing the Project X Code in the North East and North Yorkshire at

DARLINGTON – Bannatyne Hotel

18/04/13, 09/05/13, 13/06/13, 04/07/13

TEESSIDE / NORTH YORKSHIRE – Oakdene Primary School, Stockton

19/04/13,  10/05/13, 14/06/13


A list of the dates and venues for all the courses are listed here. More dates will be provided soon.




http://www.oup.com/oxed/primary/projectx/code/
https://readingsupport.edgehill.ac.uk/erc-for-schools/project-x-code/
http://www.mariekilgallonliteracy.co.uk/#

Learning about Phonics

Phonics is the flagship for literacy adopted by the UK government for teaching reading to boost standards for children, in primary schools. Match-funding of £3000, set to run out at the end of March has just been extended to October 2013.

Teaching phonics started in England in April 2011 following the publication of poor results for 10 year olds. The Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) saw England fall from third out of 35 countries in 2001 to 15th out of 40 countries in 2006.

Phonics however has been around for a long time and has been taught amongst other methods over the decades. In fact according to "Sounds Familar: The History of Phonics Teaching", it was around in the 1850'S.

Other methods of teaching include the "look and say" approach. The ideology to repeat words on each page enough times that children memorised them. This was founded by American psychologist Edmund Huey in1908 and came to the UK in the 1940s.

In the 1950s and 1960s this method was often taught through the "Janet and John" books. However, in 1955, American reading expert Rudolph Flesch published "Why Johnny Can't Read", stating that the "look and say" method was encouraging illiteracy. This influenced policy in the UK.

In schools 'alphabetic reading' (not phonics) had dominated teaching until the 19th Century. This taught children to name letters of the alphabet in upper and lower case alphabetically through recognition.

In the 'look and say method', children are exposed to pictures and stories from an early age and will learn to recognise complete words.

What the experts say about phonics

"Some children will need more phonics teaching more than others," says Andrew Lambirth, professor of education at the University of Greenwich. "To the government, the phonics only approach seems to be a logical one."

Dr Kathy Goouch, reader in education at the department of Professional Development, Canterbury, Christ Church University says;

"Learning about phonics is just a tiny part of learning to read. If children learn to read by using other strategies as well, it sometimes takes longer than simply being taught to decode words."

Ian McNeilly of the National Association for the teaching of English says,

"The use of learning aids like letter cards and alphabet guides, recognising rhyming patterns and the use of powerful texts to engage children's interest are among some of the strategies used."

What is phonics?

Phonics teaches children to understand words through sounds, rather than the whole words. In early years teaching words are broken up into the smallest units of sound called phonemes. This is known as synthetic phonics.

Letters (graphemes) represent phonemes. Children are taught to read the letters in a word like 'd' 'o' 'g', and pronounce it as a word - 'dog'.

Phonemes aren't restricted to one grapheme either. A sound can be made using combinations of letters, like 'oo' or 'ay' and 'ough'. There are around 40 phonic combinations.

Marie Kilgallon is an Independent Education Consultant who specialises in Literacy and Synthetic Phonics.

Link:

DofE: Match-funding for systematic synthetic phonics products and training extended

http://www.pro5.org/phonics/

http://www.mariekilgallonliteracy.co.uk/#

The essence of phonics

An introduction to MARIE KILGALLON ASSOCIATES LTD blog by Carl Quartermain of Torus Digital Marketing


I was very excited about meeting Marie Kilgallon in December 2012 with a view to assisting her with social media for her business. Marie is exceptionally busy and rarely has time to enjoy (suffer) social media marketing. I had met her in Middlesbrough, at a training seminar on "The impact of Social Media for Small Businesses". We were both late!

Admittedly, when Marie explained what she did, my ignorance was glaringly obvious - until she described it in more detail. Marie specialises in PHONICS CPD training for educational practitioners. Phonics is a method of teaching literacy by correlating sounds with letters or groups of letters in an alphabetic writing system.

Wikipedia states, "Since the turn of the 20th century phonics has been widely used in primary education and in teaching literacy throughout the English-speaking world. More specifically synthetic phonics is now the accepted method of teaching reading in the education systems in the UK and Australia."

Having spent part of my own career in training (and another part in social care for special needs teenagers) I am particular interested and delighted to have the opportunity to offer my services to promote Marie's business in the North East. She is based in Marton but travels nationwide delivering her exceptional skills and services to the very teaching staff who are educating our children with literacy.

Recently, I got a personal taste of the valuable work that Marie does. I have four children and I recently discovered, through a verbal testimonial, that Marie's training within the school, has had a direct impact on at least one of them, my seven year old daughter, Scarlett.

And... funnily enough, a couple days after I met Marie, Scarlett approached me, when I was chilling out on the sofa reading some ridiculous SEO article claiming to guarantee "Google Page One Ranking #1 slot". (I ask you, it beggars belief!)

She said,

"Daddy? Why do they call them bare arms and bare legs?"

Half listening and half reading, I made a noise of acknowledgement and then looked at her quizzically.

Looking at her arm and stroking it, she said. "Bare arms?"

It took a second for the penny to drop. "No darling they don't mean BEAR arms, like a grizzly bear arms. It's BARE arms  AH - RUH - EH."

She looked up at me as quick as a flash with her eyebrows raised and grinning like the Cheshire Cat. "That's right Daddy. You're right because AH-RUH-EH makes the ARE sound."

Phonics in action and you don't even realise it.


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LINKS

http://www.mariekilgallonliteracy.co.uk/#
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonics 
http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/teachingandlearning/pedagogy/phonics