1. The new framework for inspection Inspecting for successful early reading Gill Jones HMI 7 June 2012

2. The new framework: key changes

3. Add presentation title to master slide | 3  In judging the quality of the school, inspectors make four key judgements:  achievement  the quality of teaching  behaviour and safety  leadership and management

4. Add presentation title to master slide | 4  There is an even greater focus on:  narrowing gaps in performance for groups of pupils  quality of teaching and its impact on learning and progress  reading and literacy  behaviour and safety.  Inspectors will expect to use a summary of a school’s self- evaluation in a form chosen by the school.

5. Add presentation title to master slide | 5 Overall effectiveness  This takes account of the four judgements and how the school promotes the pupils’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural (SMSC) development.

6. Inspecting for successful early reading. Reading the signs.

7. Add presentation title to master slide | 7 Poverty and reading  Vocabulary at age 5 is a powerful predictor of GCSE achievement  2/3rds of 7 to 14 year olds with serious behaviour problems have language impairment  47% of employers say they cannot get recruits with the communication skills they need.  Reading, and being read to, develop vocabulary.

8. Add presentation title to master slide | 8 Socio-economic groupChild’s average recorded vocabulary at 30 months Number of new words being added, on average, between the ages of 30-36 months Children from welfare families 357 words168 words Children from professional families 766 words350 words Data from Hart and Risley’s research, USA

9. Add presentation title to master slide | 9 Building vocabulary through reading  A child who listens to stories and learns to read independently learns new words.  Children who can read are building their vocabulary and ‘success builds success’.  Children who struggle with reading, are likely to continue to struggle, unless someone intervenes quickly.

10. Add presentation title to master slide | 10 Cracking the alphabetic code  Although children need to listen to and talk about lots of stories, it is vital, particularly for children in areas of deprivation, that they crack the alphabetic code (phonics), so that they learn to read – and do read – for themselves.  Children need to learn to read so that they can read to learn.

11. Add presentation title to master slide | 11 Inspecting reading in primary schools  Inspectors look closely at children’s literacy development in the Early Years Foundation Stage (Nursery and Reception), including their communication, language and literacy development on entry to Year 1.  Inspectors evaluate what the school does to develop the literacy skills of pupils who start school with limited vocabulary.  Inspectors consider how systematically the school is teaching synthetic phonics.

12. Add presentation title to master slide | 12 Inspecting systematic synthetic phonics:  Inspectors evaluate how consistently staff teach phonics to individuals, classes and groups across the school.  Inspectors may consider whether all the teachers (and teaching assistants, if they are teaching phonics) are:  revisiting and consolidating earlier learning  enunciating individual phonemes clearly and accurately  demonstrating how to blend the sounds in words, in order, all through the word  demonstrating how to segment words into their individual sounds to spell them

13. Add presentation title to master slide | 13  praising children and reinforcing learning  using multi-sensory approaches, including mnemonics, to support and consolidate learning  reinforcing the application of phonic knowledge and skills as the first approach to reading an unknown word  ensuring that all children are actively participating  setting sufficiently high expectations  identifying the children that may be struggling or have simply not quite grasped something  making the best use of resources  using teaching time as effectively as possible so that every minute counts?

14. Add presentation title to master slide | 14  The survey report ‘Reading by six, how the best schools do it’ says: ‘The best primary schools in England teach virtually every child to read, regardless of the social and economic circumstances of their neighbourhoods, the ethnicity of their pupils, the language spoken at home and most special educational needs or disabilities.’

15. Add presentation title to master slide | 15 The phonic screening check  In June 2012 the government will introduce a phonic screening check for six-year-olds.  Nearly half the 300 schools (43%) which piloted the check said that it ‘had helped them to identify (Year 1) pupils with phonic decoding issues that there were not previously aware of’.  Inspectors will consider the children who had low scores in the screening check, seeing what progress they have made from Reception and looking closely at the teaching of reading (including phonics).

16. Add presentation title to master slide | 16 National reading tests  Schools test pupils’ ability in reading at ages 7 and 11.  The percentage of pupils achieving the expected level, Level 4 or above, in the 2011 Key Stage 2 tests is as follows:  Reading 84%  The percentage achieving the higher level, Level 5, in the 2011 Key Stage 2 tests is as follows:  Reading 43%

17. Add presentation title to master slide | 17 National reading tests  In 2011, the percentage of pupils making 2 levels progress in English was 85%  In 2011, the percentage of pupils making 2 levels progress in English between ages 11 and 16 was 72%.  The percentage of pupils achieving Level 4 or above at Key Stage 2 in each Local Authority ranges from:  77% to 92% in reading

18. Add presentation title to master slide | 18  Training materials are available on the Ofsted website to support the inspection of literacy  http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/resources/getting-them-reading- early http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/resources/getting-them-reading- early  http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/resources/reading-writing-and- communication-literacy http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/resources/reading-writing-and- communication-literacy

19. Add presentation title to master slide | 19  The following recent Ofsted surveys share examples of good practice in teaching literacy  Reading by six, how the best schools do it www.ofsted.gov.uk/resources/reading-six-how-best-schools- do-it www.ofsted.gov.uk/resources/reading-six-how-best-schools- do-it  Moving English forward, Ofsted, 2012 www.ofsted.gov.uk/resource www.ofsted.gov.uk/resource  Removing barriers to literacy www.ofsted.gov.uk/resources/removing-barriers-literacy www.ofsted.gov.uk/resources/removing-barriers-literacy