Recommendations

School leaders should:

• R1    Provide staff with high-quality professional learning about evidence-based strategies to develop pupils’ reading skills across the curriculum
• R2    Monitor and evaluate robustly the impact of reading strategies and interventions
• R3    Plan within their cluster for the progressive development of pupils’ reading skills from Year 6 to Year 7, including making appropriate use of feedback and progress reports from personalised assessments

Teachers and classroom-based support staff should:

• R4    Plan meaningful and engaging opportunities for pupils to develop their reading skills progressively 
• R5    Use high-quality, suitably challenging texts to develop pupils’ reading skills alongside teaching the strategies pupils need to access and engage with these texts

School improvement partners should:

• R6    Work together closely to ensure greater consistency and synergy in professional learning opportunities around reading for school leaders, teachers and teaching assistants

The Welsh Government should:

• R7    Continue to promote and develop the whole-school approach to oracy and reading toolkit