LIVE ONLINE: NEW Good Practice in Guided Group Reading
Guided Group Reading is a practice that is well-embedded in many schools across Wales. Despite this, many of us often question if we are running our GGR sessions correctly. What should good practice look like across the Foundation Phase and KS2?
As we begin addressing some of the challenges that have impacted on literacy in the last year, why might GGR be more important than ever?
The format of the training days will be somewhat different as we will be ‘meeting’ virtually. The sessions will be for a small group so that they can be interactive. The days will be chunked into more bitesize pieces and will include tasks for reflection as well as discussion.
- An understanding of how Shared Reading supports Guided Group Reading.
- A model for running a Guided Group Reading session that can be used as a template for planning a session.
- Ideas for tools and activities that can be used to develop language work and support readers.
- Ideas for questioning and responding to reading as part of the GGR session and ways to develop the role of the adult in GGR.
- Consideration of what the rest of the class should and could be doing when they are not part of the GGR session with the teacher. How can we use a carousel of activities effectively?
Timings and Format of the Days
Due to the training day being on- screen, timings have needed to be adjusted to allow colleagues to have regular breaks to both refresh as well as reflect.
Preparation – independent teacher reflection time 9am to 10.15am. Please work through the prompts that Helen will email to you before the event. These will be aimed at self-evaluation of your current provision.
Session 1 – Join Helen & Stephanie in the virtual meeting room - 10.30am – 12pm
Lunch - 12pm to 1pm
Session 2 – 1pm to 2pm – Join Helen & Stephanie in the virtual meeting room
Break – 2pm to 2.15pm
Session 3 – 2.15pm to 3.15pm – Join Helen & Stephanie in the virtual meeting room.
What Happens Next?
Please provide Collective Learning with the email address of the person who will be attending the training days. Helen Bowen will send through a Zoom meeting invite to the person who is attending so that they can join her live on the day.
The meeting room will only be available to those who have been sent the link and will be admitted to the room on the day. For safety, the meeting room will then be ‘locked’ once the training has started, and no other participants will be able to enter.
All materials will be sent electronically to the attendee after the event.
NB The attendee may choose to attend the training from their home base if this has been approved by the school.
Course Presenters: Helen Bowen, Stephanie Vaughan
Helen Bowen
Stephanie Vaughan
Course Location: LIVE ONLINE MEETING
What Happens Next?
- Please provide Collective Learning with the email address of the person who will be attending the training.
- Your presenter will email a meeting invitation link to the person who is attending so that they can join her live on the day.
- The meeting room will only be available to those who have been sent the link and will be admitted to the room on the day.
- All resource materials will be sent electronically to the attendee after the event.