Training run by BFfC’s School Effectiveness team promotes reading for pleasure at its core. Inspired by Teresa Cremin’s attendance at our 2020 conference we run an OU/UKLA Teachers Reading Group as part of our Reading for Pleasure agenda which is evidence based in secure subject knowledge and pedagogical practices. We promote wide reading diets, including through Doug Lemov’s ‘The 5 plagues of reading’ and Bob Cox’s Opening Doors; sequenced reading spines and more inclusive reading materials to represent all pupils based on our passion for children’s literature and years of experience.

We champion the role of fluency as the bridge between word recognition and reading comprehension due to our work with the Herts for Learning team inspired by Tim Rasinski.

We recognise the importance of fidelity to validated systematic synthetic phonics programmes so have supported and challenged schools in Reading and neighbouring LAs to improve their subject knowledge, quality first discrete teaching as well as further phonics application opportunities and the role of the phonics manager.

We can offer:

• Planning from a great text
• Dialogic Book Talk
• Lesson study – in class support
• Shared and guided reading – teaching comprehension
• Fluency in KS1 and KS2
• Decoding – the application of phonics
• Generating/reviewing a reading spine
• Poetry
• Drama
• Reading for Pleasure – UKLA/OU Teachers’ Reading Group (project)
• Assessment/moderation