Fix it reading - teacher handbook and student workbook
Designed to support struggling readers aged 11-14 whose reading attainment has fallen behind their expected level, Fix it reading is an intervention programme based on practical, evidence-based reading comprehension strategies.
Fix it reading supports struggling readers, by building their confidence and enjoyment in reading.
The Fix it reading teacher handbook, for experienced English teachers, non-subject specialists and TAs, will take you step-by-step through the 12 week programme, with detailed lesson plans and practical CPD guidance on how and why these reading comprehension strategies work.
The Fix it reading student workbook provides everything students need, including engaging texts to read, classroom activities and worksheets.
Perfect for supporting Pupil Premium students, as well as students whose progress in reading has been negatively affected by Covid-19, the lessons are devised for 1:1, small group and whole group intervention sessions or as a complementary resource in English classes.
Key features:
- The teacher's handbook includes 12 detailed lesson plans, starter and plenary ideas, homework tasks and evidence-based teaching notes and CPD guidance.
- The accompanying student workbook includes carefully selected texts to engage struggling readers, as well as worksheets and activities.
- Includes fiction and non-fiction texts on a range of engaging themes, with extracts from accessible young adult novels like City of Ghosts, Home Ground and The Hound of the Baskervilles as well as graphic novels, news articles, websites, and fact sheets.
- Complements our popular KS3 writing intervention programme, Fix it writing.
This is a sample from a lesson on summarising and note-taking.
Lesson objective:
Understand how to summarise the main ideas from a non-fiction text. Use a scaffolded technique to develop your note-taking skills.
The skills of summarising and note-taking can help if you need to read and understand a text in detail.
Summarise means to sum up and briefly outline the main points of ideas.
Your are going to read a text about survival. If you were in a survival situation, what would you include in your own basic survival kit?
Think of between 5 and 10 items and write or draw them in the rucksack below.
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