SCA Year of Reading- Showcase Event for Secondary Education Professionals

Is your school or trust struggling to engage all learners with reading?

Sutton Community Academy has been making remarkable strides in student outcomes through innovative reading strategies. Now they’re ready to share their journey at an exciting new event: SCA's Year of Reading. Over the past three years, their focused approach to reading has led to measurable improvements in student engagement, comprehension, and achievement.

SCA’s Year of Reading will highlight the key strategies, tools, and practices that have made a real difference in the classroom. At this full-day in-school event, you’ll have the opportunity to observe these powerful strategies in action in a classroom setting.

This event will explore:

Teaching & Learning Interventions

Using data to determine barriers to reading, building a successful reading curriculum and ensuring interventions help students access the curriculum.

Building a Culture of Reading

Embedding reading in your ethos, ensuring that reading extends outside the classroom and even outside of school.

The Thinking Reading Literacy Programme

Utilising Thinking Reading as part of a broader reading strategy to support learners who struggle the most with reading.

About Thinking Reading

Thinking Reading is a literacy programme that aims to equip secondary schools to teach the lowest 10% successfully. Rigorous, research-based and systematic, Thinking Reading focuses on teaching more in less time using age-appropriate books and expert teaching methods. Highly detailed assessment tracks progress in every aspect of the customised, one-to-one lesson.