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A ready-to-deliver 60-minute staff training session on whole class reading — session plan, presenter's script, discussion tasks, gap tasks and a monitoring plan.
You are the reading lead. You have been given the staff meeting. You do not have a spare evening to build it.
This pack is the session, written out in full.
WHAT IS IN IT
A minute-by-minute 60-minute session plan, from the two-minute model lesson you open with to the written commitments you collect at the end.
A presenter's script you can speak as it stands or adapt to your own school's examples. Rehearse the first five minutes and the rest follows.
Three staff discussion tasks with timings — question quality, talk routines, and phase teams planning Monday's actual lesson.
The common objections, and how to answer them. What about my lowest readers. What about the children who cannot decode the text. Where does the guided group go.
Gap tasks for the fortnight after the session, and a monitoring plan for the half term that follows — so the training does not stop at the meeting.
THE ARGUMENT IT MAKES
One idea, made concrete: every child meets a rich text and every child is expected to think. The session builds the five-part shape — fluency, vocabulary, read, think and talk, one written capture — and staff leave having planned a real lesson using it.
WHO IT IS FOR
English subject leaders, reading leads and senior leaders in primary schools who have to deliver the training themselves.
Editable Word file and print-ready PDF included. Written by Laura Masson — former primary headteacher and Director of Education across a seven-school trust.
A ready-to-deliver 60-minute staff training session on whole class reading — session plan, presenter's script, discussion tasks, gap tasks and a monitoring plan.
You are the reading lead. You have been given the staff meeting. You do not have a spare evening to build it.
This pack is the session, written out in full.
WHAT IS IN IT
A minute-by-minute 60-minute session plan, from the two-minute model lesson you open with to the written commitments you collect at the end.
A presenter's script you can speak as it stands or adapt to your own school's examples. Rehearse the first five minutes and the rest follows.
Three staff discussion tasks with timings — question quality, talk routines, and phase teams planning Monday's actual lesson.
The common objections, and how to answer them. What about my lowest readers. What about the children who cannot decode the text. Where does the guided group go.
Gap tasks for the fortnight after the session, and a monitoring plan for the half term that follows — so the training does not stop at the meeting.
THE ARGUMENT IT MAKES
One idea, made concrete: every child meets a rich text and every child is expected to think. The session builds the five-part shape — fluency, vocabulary, read, think and talk, one written capture — and staff leave having planned a real lesson using it.
WHO IT IS FOR
English subject leaders, reading leads and senior leaders in primary schools who have to deliver the training themselves.
Editable Word file and print-ready PDF included. Written by Laura Masson — former primary headteacher and Director of Education across a seven-school trust.