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Creating an Inclusive Reading Classroom

See every pupil as a reader, including those with dyslexia or complex SEND, and give each of them a real way into stories.

  • 40 minutes
  • 6 modules
  • 0.5 CPD hours
  • Certificate

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What you'll learn

  • Explain the simple view of reading and what it means for struggling readers
  • Work out whether a pupil's barrier is word recognition or comprehension
  • Use multi-sensory and sensory stories to include pupils with complex needs
  • Choose accessible texts and tools that take the stress out of reading
  • Send a reading experience home with every pupil, whatever their stage

About this course

A pupil can decode a whole page and understand almost none of it. Another may be years away from print, and it's easy to leave them out of reading altogether. Both belong in your reading classroom.

Once you know how children learn to read, you can work out where a pupil's barrier actually sits. The simple view of reading splits it into word recognition and language comprehension, and each needs a different response. From there the ideas are practical: multi-sensory and sensory stories, high-interest books pitched at a level pupils can manage, immersive reader tools, and being read to every day, at any age.

Reading shouldn't stop at the school gate either. You'll find ways to send something home with every pupil, from a bag of story objects to a story recorded on their communication device.

  • For early career teachers, supply staff and 3 other roles. Primary, secondary and special.

6 modules

Open in order

  1. Introduction

    2 min

  2. Why is reading so important?

    6 min

  3. How we learn to read

    9 min

  4. The brain and processes involved in learning to read

    11 min

  5. Practical strategies to create an inclusive reading classroom

    11 min

  6. Wrap up

    5 min