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Reading Leaders' Network 2026/27

Summary

The Reading Leader’s Network will focus on inclusion and adaptation in teaching reading and aims to:

Develop subject knowledge for Reading Leaders to support learners in the lowest 20%.
Use case sampling of lower attaining learners in KS2 in all aspects of the reading curriculum to identify best practice to support these learners to make progress.

Session 1:

Understanding every lower achieving pupil.
Screening to identify needs of the most vulnerable readers: fluency at word and sentence level.
Case sampling: who is chosen and why?
Developing leadership: Case sampling: How are their needs being met in shared reading and when stories are read aloud?

Session 2:

What did your screening show you? What do these pupils need? Do your teachers know how to move this learning forward?
Screening to identify needs of the most vulnerable readers: working memory, vocabulary knowledge and wider comprehension.
Strategies to meet the needs of the lowest 20% (e.g. guided reading).
Metacognitive prompts to support early readers.
Developing leadership: Case sampling: Guided reading.

Session 3:

What did your screening show you? What do these pupils need? Do your teachers know how to move this learning forward?
Dyslexia: how does this impact on readers.
What are these children choosing to read (volitional reading): why might they be choosing this?
What do the lowest achieving learn?
Now you have all this information: so what will you do about it?
Developing leadership: Case sampling: Volitional reading.

Gap tasks will be provided after each session.

Session dates

Session 1: Tuesday 13^th October 2026, 9am – 12pm at NSPCC

Session 2: Tuesday 12^th January 2027, 9am – 12pm at NSPCC

Session 3: Thursday 8^th April 2027, 9am – 12pm at NSPCC

Recommended for

Reading Leaders from all primary and junior schools.

Venue

NSPCC Training Centre, 3 Gilmour Close, Leicester, LE4 1EZ

Cost

Free for Leicester City maintained schools. £270 per delegate for non-maintained schools and Leicestershire schools.

Further Information

Any questions, please contact: hayley.carter@sdsa.net

Please note: Both the Early Reading Hub and the Reading Leaders’ Network will focus on the core principles of inclusion and adaption in teaching reading. However, both programmes will be tailored to the different audiences and will differ. We recommend that schools attend both programmes to support whole school focus.

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Release named staff to attend date/s as detailed in the booking information.
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