SHARP Reading with Hilton Ayrey
This year Park Estate School is launching the SHARP reading programme across the school. SHARP stands for: success, habitual, autonomous, routines and progressions. My summary of the SHARP reading workshop: It gives the teacher a set of routines and a script to prompt students to unpack a small amount of text and understand it really well. It seeks to develop active readers who 'wake up their brains' and clearly articulate what a sentence means. I've done a fair share of reading PLD over the last 12 years, and I was keen to add some more skills to my kete. At a personal level: I like the structure and routine (no surprises). I like the simplicity, not trying to do everything at once. I like that it seems to be evidence based and have some good results behind it. I like the focus on developing good reading habits. I like the element of challenge and in-built self assessment. I like how SHARP reading provides for lots of independent practise for students. I like