InterventionOlder students
Rescue struggling readers aged 11–13
Read Write Inc. Fresh Start is a catch-up and intervention programme, with proven results, for 11–13-year-old struggling readers. Developed by Ruth Miskin, Read Write Inc. Fresh Start uses a proven phonics-based approach that enables older students to catch up with reading and access the secondary curriculum quickly.
The high-interest, age-appropriate reading resources accelerate students' progress and teachers are supported with comprehensive guidance and lesson plans.
Program Components
34 Modules provide practice in the sounds and graphemes taught in the phonics lessons. The texts are carefully matched to the students’ phonic level. Students read and discuss the text several times, developing comprehension and fluency.
Each Module also contains a range of activities which develop spelling, punctuation and writing answers to comprehension questions.
- Clear, step-by-step activities build skills and confidence
- Each module contains a fiction or non-fiction text
Seven vibrant and compelling Anthologies in an engaging magazine-style format, provide even more opportunity for phonic practice, at home and at school.
- Includes contemporary stories, non-fiction texts, quizzes, comic strips and poems engaging reluctant readers
- Texts are linked to the modules, providing extra practice for the focus sounds
- Texts are the perfect length to build reading stamina
The Handbook has been devised in consultation with trial schools to ensure that students make speedy progress and can access the Secondary curriculum quickly. It includes:
- advice on how to organise Fresh Start in your class or school
- guidance on how to identify students who would benefit from the programme and how to assess them at each stage
- detailed notes on how to teach the Speed Sounds so that students can begin to read the texts and complete the activities in the Fresh Start Modules
- full guidance on how to timetable and teach each Module in the programme
Speed Sound Cards
Letter–sound correspondences to help students remember the sounds.
Posters
Speed sounds posters for quick review of the letter– sound correspondences.
Word Cards
Green Word Cards with examples of words containing the sounds students have just learnt.
Red Word Cards help students read common words with uncommon spellings.
Cards to help students practise some of the decodable words they will come across in the Module texts, with definitions.
You asked, we listened! We have developed a range of engaging Read Write Inc. Fresh Start Readers to meet the needs of older 9- to 13-year old students, providing even more opportunities to enjoy independent reading in the classroom or at home.
Each book contains two texts aligned to the recently refreshed 34 Fresh Start Modules and have a grown-up look and feel that resembles what students’ peers are reading.
Professional Development with Ruth Miskin Training
Training for Fresh Start is provided by Ruth Miskin Training, and will enable you to ensure:
- struggling readers learn to read accurately, and at a sufficient pace to access the secondary curriculum
- the teaching of reading is rigorous, consistent and of the highest quality
- leaders keep track of students’ reading progress and act on data
- learning is fully supported via the Virtual Classroom, with over 600 phonics films to send home
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