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Find out moreCatch Up® has recently concluded a 3-year Early Years research project.
The Early Years Project has provided evidence that the intervention support using the Catch Up® Literacy and Numeracy training and resource packages, has a positive impact on the attainment and progress of these younger learners in literacy and numeracy.
Got your head round the Revised Reading Framework yet? (DfE 2023). The content is non-statutory but it’s got lots of practical advice about strategies for teaching reading. It’s an update of the 2021 version which mainly referred to Key Stage 1 and which focussed on 3 things:
Comic-strip books are often a popular choice by struggling readers, but don’t assume that these texts are always easy to read. Sometimes, the text is written in capital letters and that can present a challenge to the struggling reader. Also, pupils (and adults!) can be uncertain about what to read first – the text above or below the artwork, or what is written in the speech bubbles.
Here are some simple guidelines...
Summer Term 2024 dates are now available for our live online Review and Refresh sessions, for Catch Up® Literacy and Catch Up® Numeracy.
Designed for those who attended Catch Up® training over six months ago and who now have experience of delivering the intervention, the Review and Refresh online session offers you a great opportunity to share how your practice is going, and to get further guidance and advice from a Catch Up® Accredited Trainer (and other trainees!).
Welcome back to Lynne’s blog and today’s topic - Guzintas. Though not the spicy cuisine they may sound like, they can raise some learners’ temperatures as high as the hottest chilli. So what are these mysterious Guzintas? Division calculations. (As in ‘two guzinta six, three times’!)
They are a necessary evil, I’m afraid, as an ability to divide is essential to calculate with fractions and percentages, amongst other things.
Learners normally first meet division in KS1 but might still be experiencing difficulties well into Key Stage 3. So why the problems? I believe there are a number of issues responsible and I apologise here for the length of this blog, but it reflects the profound difficulties that are experienced by many learners.
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