Curriculum
Boosting the Literacy of Looked After Children
Get a child in care reading and writing again, with sessions built around what they love and planned with their carer.
- 1 hour
- Recorded webinar
- 1 CPD hour
- Certificate
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What you'll learn
- Build literacy sessions around a child's own interests instead of worksheets
- Choose an adult the child already trusts to lead the work
- Plan activities with carers each week so home and school pull together
- Use a specialist assessment to target what each child needs most
- Keep a simple learning log that picks up small successes
About this course
Children in care often fall behind in literacy, and for many of them one look at a worksheet is enough to switch off. Tutoring from a stranger rarely helps either, because the relationship has to come first.
You'll learn an approach you can adapt for a child you already know. Build short sessions around what they love (football word games for one boy, penguins for another) and leave the worksheets out. Plan with their carer every week on one shared sheet, so ideas go both ways. Some of the best ones, like Bananagrams, came from home.
In a small study run by one local authority, children made an average of two years' progress in four or five months. It's built on relationships the child already has, and that matters for a child who has already switched off from ordinary catch-up.
- For early career teachers, middle leaders and 3 other roles. Primary and secondary.
Recording
- 61 min
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