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Ready-to-run staff meetings on reading fluency

Six sessions for your reading lead to deliver: editable slides, with what to say on every one.

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Slide: three pillars, one more pillar, and a roof – accuracy, automaticity and prosody hold up comprehension
Slide: a reader is doing two jobs from one pool of attention
Slide: one sentence, four ways – accuracy missing, automaticity missing, prosody missing, fluent
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Slide: one sentence, four ways – accuracy missing, automaticity missing, prosody missing, fluent
Speaker notes · What fluency is, slide 9

Take one sentence. “When the door finally opened, the dog shot past her legs and into the garden.” I am going to read it four ways. Listen for the difference.

One. Accuracy missing. Near enough to sound like reading, wrong enough to mean nothing in particular.

Two. Automaticity missing. Every word right, every word separate. By the time the child reaches “garden”, the door has gone.

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The six sessions

Run them in order, one staff meeting each.

  1. 1

    What fluency is

    Two children who can both read, and neither can tell you the story. Accuracy, automaticity and prosody, and why fluency is ours to teach.

    19 slides

    Slide: three pillars, one more pillar, and a roof – accuracy, automaticity and prosody hold up comprehensionSlide: one sentence, four ways – accuracy missing, automaticity missing, prosody missing, fluentSlide: a reader is doing two jobs from one pool of attention
  2. 2

    The programme at a glance

    The Fluency Flywheel, the nine stages, and the two engines – poetry and stories – on eleven slides.

    11 slides · 15 minutes

    Slide: the Fluency Flywheel – Find, Build, Support, ProveSlide: the nine stages, Birch to Cedar, with the words correct per minute for eachSlide: two engines – Dawn Chorus and the Story Trail
  3. 3

    Running the assessment

    Two to three minutes a child, done the same way every time. Staff mark real passages and check their marks against a key.

    34 slides

    Slide: nine stages, each named after a treeSlide: tap the word as it happens – how each kind of error is marked in the appSlide: one reads, one marks, then swap – practising the check in pairs
  4. 4

    The Story Trail: a week, compressed

    Staff become the class. A Story Trail fortnight taught in one session, then taken apart move by move.

    33 slides

    Slide: meet the Mystery Club – four friends, four voicesSlide: freeze-frame on the Master Modelled Read and Partner TalkSlide: the same words with the help put back – a passage cued with phrase slashes
  5. 5

    Dawn Chorus

    One poem, one week, taught to staff as the class – then taken apart move by move.

    26 slides

    Slide: one poem, one week – Hear It, Grow It, Show ItSlide: freeze-frame on the Master Modelled Read and Partner TalkSlide: listen for the rhyme at the end of each pair – a Guided Choral Read
  6. 6

    Fluent Foundations

    Ten minutes a day for a group of five. One week of the intervention, taught to staff as the group.

    32 slides

    Slide: ten minutes, five days, five childrenSlide: freeze-frame on Clever Clusters, Word Blast and Syllable StacksSlide: the week’s measure – one child a day reads a passage they have never seen

Recorded versions of each session are on the way.

Simon Sharp

Written by Simon Sharp, a headteacher, and run first with his own staff. The sessions follow The Reading Fluency Handbook and the programme in the app, so the training and the teaching say the same thing.

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Alongside the assessment, the poems and the stories. Nothing extra to buy.

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