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Reading continues to be a huge focus at Sir Geoffrey Leigh Academy and our students have continued to embrace our new reading challenges fantastically since the beginning of the year! Since the launching of our 50 book challenge and we have had our second winner, another one of our fabulous year 7s, Lucas, has completed this and been rewarded with his certificates and prizes so a massive congratulations to him!
Reciprocal Reading
All students have continued with Reciprocal Reading during tutor time in order to improve their literacy skills. It is a reading strategy where students take turns leading a discussion on a text, focusing on four key skills:
Summarising: Condensing the main points of a passage.
Questioning: Asking clarifying or thought-provoking questions about the text.
Clarifying: Identifying and resolving confusing parts of the text.
Predicting: Making educated guesses about what will happen next.
This term, each year group have been focusing on a different text:
Year 7 - The Fib by George Layton
Year 8 - Fiction Extracts
Year 9 - Dickens Extracts
Year 10 - Non-fiction extracts
Sparx Reader - Gold Reader
The last two modules have seen the launch of Sparx Reader for KS3 students. We are absolutely thrilled to have already made gains in our position on the Leigh Academies Trust leaderboard in such a short time. We are also very proud that 45 of ours students who have achieved Gold Reader status by not only completing their weekly homework on time but continuing with their own reading for pleasure which will only improve all of their reading and literacy skills. Well done to all of our readers and keep up the good work and our best readers can look forward to certificates and prizes next module!
Author:
Mrs Bonthron - Assistant Head of Seacole College
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