Harnessing our experience in closing achievement gaps for dysfluent readers, we invite schools to join the Year 1 Reading Fluency Project: Foundational Fluency. Many children progress through phonics yet still need support to build fluency or apply skills to longer texts. Some rely on sounding out, struggle to blend, or find comprehension hard. This project identifies these pupils early and provides strategies to bridge the gap between phonics proficiency and fluent reading. Impact from previous cohorts: • 47% no longer needed fluency instruction • 12% average increase in accuracy • 87% improved reading confidence • 91% passed the Phonics Screening Check. The project complements your SSP, using your own materials, and includes focused CPD, bespoke assessment tools, consultancy and support to embed school wide approaches, helping pupils move confidently towards fluent, motivated reading.
Learning outcomes
By the end of the Project, you’ll be empowered to ensure that these pupils are not only on a far improved trajectory to passing the Phonics Screening Check but also grow into volitional, confident, and fluent readers.
Please contact [email protected] for further, detailed information about the project and its impact. This project training is for 3 members of staff - usually the Phonics Lead and 2 class teachers.
With robust action planning, the project will support you in embedding sustainable strategies for reading instruction and improving fluency for year 1 and across your school. If we are able to tackle these foundational skills early on with our pupils, evidence suggests that later intervention will be less necessary.
By the end of the Project, you’ll be empowered to ensure that these pupils are not only on a far improved trajectory to passing the Phonics Screening Check but also grow into volitional, confident, and fluent readers.
