About this course
Delegates can work through this digital distance learning course at own pace ideally across a term. Delegates will receive access to four pre-recorded sessions for this training as well as assessment and planning resources.
This training is designed to support teachers working with children with large gaps in spelling knowledge. Spelling SOS KS2 is an innovative, fully resourced programme designed to have a swift and powerful impact on pupils’ spelling achievement in a short period.
Spelling is critical to success and confidence in writing. This 8-week programme includes four training sessions, diagnostic tests, lesson plans, and activities designed to support long-term retention.
Following successful implementation of the programme, targeted pupils will be on an improved trajectory towards EXS in writing at the end of KS2; have a more positive relationship with spelling; be more enthusiastic, confident spellers with an increased understanding and knowledge. Teachers’ subject knowledge will be developed, increasing the confidence to identify gaps and misconceptions, as well as the means by which to prioritise key learning areas to focus on for individuals.
This is a distance learning course that you will work through at your own pace -ideally across a term- comprising four distinct modules:
Session 1: an introduction to phonics and spelling- subject knowledge and principles of good pedagogy
Session 2: how to support children with gaps in spelling knowledge- what are the barriers to learning and how does the intervention work?
Session 3: evaluation of assessments and getting the most out of the intervention
Session 4: how to support children with application of spelling in independent writing; developing a whole school approach to spelling.
Learning Outcomes
- improving the standards in spelling for a group of target pupils
- enabling pupils to have a more positive relationship with spelling, boosting motivation and by extension writing performance
- improve writing standards, and the number of children meeting statutory expectations
- developing memory strategies to support pupils in storing their learning in their long-term memory, and accessing and applying this learning in independent writing
- developing teachers’ subject knowledge in order for them to be able to identify pupils’ misconceptions accurately, and prioritise key learning areas for individuals
- demonstrating how to implement and manage a whole class teaching sequence that meets the varying needs of individuals
- enhancing children’s word awareness in terms of construction and meaning-making to support wider language comprehension
- Event Type: eLearning