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| Erica Rooney and the Reading Recovery celebration at Air Balloon Hill Primary School |
To celebrate their Reading Recovery programme, pupils who took part in the scheme read aloud to visitors and each other. If you're not aware of Reading Recovery, it's a special programme where five to six years olds who really struggle with reading receive 30 minutes one-on-one time with a specially trained teacher each and every school day.
The results at Air Balloon spoke for themselves.
At the end of the end of the session, I talked with Erica Rooney, Air Balloon's Reading Recovery teacher. She was obviously very moved by the progress of the pupils who'd worked through the programme, and rightly so. What an amazing achievement!
Listening to Ned, I knew exactly what I wanted to say in this month's post - a big thank you to all the teachers, teachers' assistants, librarians and parent volunteers who go into school week after week and listen to children read. You are our unsung heroes and deserve all the credit you can get!
Now, if you excuse me, I need to pick up where Ned left off. Where's my copy of The Hobbit?
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Cavan Scott is the author of over 70 books and audio dramas including the Sunday Times Bestseller, Who-ology: The Official Doctor Who Miscellany, co-written with Mark Wright.
He's written for Doctor Who, Skylanders, Adventure Time, Angry Birds, Penguins of Madagascar and Warhammer 40,000 among others. He also writes Roger the Dodger and Bananaman for The Beano as well as books for reluctant readers of all ages.
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He's written for Doctor Who, Skylanders, Adventure Time, Angry Birds, Penguins of Madagascar and Warhammer 40,000 among others. He also writes Roger the Dodger and Bananaman for The Beano as well as books for reluctant readers of all ages.
Cavan's website
Cavan's facebook fanpage
Cavan's twitterings
6 comments:
That's really impressive!
That's inspiring. English is such a hard language to learn to read, and it's easy to get left behind, for whatever reason. It's wonderful to read about this kind of intervention.
Look at the pride on their faces - thanks for sharing this!
So great to read about a school embracing Reading Recovery when I have encountered so many Heads who falsely perceive it as 'expensive'(requires specialist teacher) and replace it with a phonics only programme. I have been an advocate for years. I have seen it transform so many children's lives.
Yes, I have to say, I was more than a little moved by it all. Was a great day.
As a new Patron of Reading, this is really inspiring!
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