Teacher Reflections: Supporting schools with reading on return to school
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In this session, Beccie Hawes, the Head of Service at Cadmus Inclusive, looks at which reading skills our children have lost and gained during lockdown and gives advice on how to support children with reading as they return to school. She explains how the New Group Reading Test (NGRT) can be used to identify reading issues and how the York Assessment of Reading for Comprehension (YARC) can be used to delve deeper.
Speaker: Beccie Hawes BA (Hons) QTS, MEd, PG Cert (professional studies SENCo and specific learning difficulties), AMBDA
Beccie has extensive experience as a SENCo, Inclusion Manager and Lead Local Authority Advisory Teacher. Beccie is currently the Head of Service at Cadmus Inclusive - one of our Centres of Assessment Excellence and a community interest company that provides support to meet the needs of their vulnerable learners via direct pupil work, family support, training and capacity building on a national and international scale. Beccie remains very ‘hands on’ in the classroom and is passionate about being at the chalk face to support teachers and children in order to practice what she preaches. She is the author of ‘The Complete Dyslexia Toolkit’ and co-author of ‘Getting it Right for SEND’ and ‘How to Create the Perfect Partnership with Parents’. Beccie has also developed a number of resources which schools use to aid effective curriculum delivery for learners with additional needs
