Interventions for Tuition

[Elizabeth]

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Catch-up Premium for England

The government is providing a one-off universal £650 million catch-up premium for the 2020 to 2021 academic year to ensure that schools have the support they need to help all pupils make up for lost teaching time. See https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus ... up-premium. Schools can choose how to spend it, including on whole school training and resources as long as they are intended to support catch-up. Schools may use staff from within or outside their schools.

Catch-up with reading and spelling through systematic synthetic phonics

I put together the following list to help schools find suitable interventions for helping children of all ages to catch up with reading and spelling. They all follow the principles for teaching through systematic synthetic phonics. The list is in alphabetic order; it is not ranked or exclusive.

• Catch up Reading with BRI – particularly suitable for young children who find reading difficult
https://piperbooks.co.uk/catch-up-with-bri/

• Catch-up Tutoring for Reading and Writing with Synthetic Phonics – suitable for YR–Y6 and KS3
https://www.syntheticphonics.net/upload ... honics.pdf

• Catch-Up with Jolly Phonics – activities and courses for support with phonics and spelling
https://www.jollylearning.co.uk/resourc ... m-support/

• Catch-up with Sounds-Write - for reading, spelling and writing in KS1-2
https://www.sounds-write.co.uk/page-107 ... ourse.aspx

• Floppy’s Phonics – Catch Up and Intervention using Floppy's Phonics Teaching Programme
www.oxfordprimary.co.uk/floppysphonicscatchup

• Phonics for Pupils with Special Educational Needs
https://www.phonicsforpupilswithspecial ... needs.com/

• Phonics Intervention – systematic and incidental phonics for reading, spelling and handwriting
https://phonicsintervention.org/tutoring-uk/

• RWI Phonics: Fast Track Tutoring – accelerates pupils’ reading progress in ALL schools.
https://global.oup.com/education/conten ... ?region=uk

• Sound Reading System – carefully constructed to teach the complex code, suitable for KS2-4
https://soundreadingsystem.co.uk/

• That Reading Thing – reading and spelling for Y6, KS3 and KS4
https://thatreadingthing.com/

• Thinking Reading – an intensive, one-to-one literacy intervention for KS3-4
https://www.thinkingreading.com/

• Trugs – phonic reading games for catch-up
https://www.readsuccessfully.com/

[Elizabeth]

There were problems with a couple of the links in the previous message, but they all work now.

[Debbie Hepplewhite]

• Phonics Intervention – systematic and incidental phonics for reading, spelling and handwriting
https://phonicsintervention.org/tutoring-uk/

Thank you for flagging up these very good 'systematic synthetic phonics' based programmes and resources, Elizabeth.

Both the Phonics International programme (for all ages) and No Nonsense Phonics Skills series can be readily used for intervention.

In addition, we have added a link via our Phonics International website, in light of the coronavirus pandemic, to a wide range of free resources including our Series of 8 eBooks 'Alphabetic Code and Phonics Skills' which can also be used for intervention at school and/or at home. See here:

https://phonicsinternational.com/cv-lockdown-resources/