Words for All is a professional development programme that works with schools and trusts, at both strategic and practitioner level, to improve students’ reading ability and raise academic outcomes. At the heart of the Words for All programme is our belief that skilled reading is a vital key for unlocking learning, empowering students, and helping them to reach their academic potential.
Benefiting from our rich network of experts, schools and coaching, you will have the opportunity to work collaboratively to develop and implement evidence-based strategies to improve students’ reading abilities across your school or trust.
Programme participants benefit from:
NETWORK OF PRACTITIONERS
Join a network of practitioners to share best practices, learn from each other, and collaborate on project implementation. Connect with like-minded individuals facing similar challenges, explore progress reporting, and benefit from termly networking hubs.
MENTORING
Our mentors provide 1:1 targeted support by helping you understand and analyse data, creating focused projects, strategic planning, pre-empting obstacles, offering expertise, and coaching you to develop necessary skills.
EXPERT WEBINARS
Our webinars offer a treasure trove of expertise. Accessible live or through our archive, the webinars support your own professional development, or can be used as a CPD resource within your school.
The Words for All programme is available to all state Secondary schools in England. You can access it as an individual school, part of a MAT or school grouping. The programme is also available free through WE Secondary Membership.
Key focus areas
We help you pick from five key technical areas of practice on which to focus an impact project that best suits your needs and context.
Improving students’ reading fluency through targeted intervention
Removing classroom barriers for students who struggle with reading fluency
Improving reading comprehension through developing students' vocabulary
Improving reading comprehension through developing students' background knowledge
Improving reading comprehension through developing reading strategies
Words For All is a programme with proven impact that you can tailor to your specific context, whether you are an individual school or want a bespoke package built for multiple schools in a MAT.
Words for All works in collaboration with a range of leading experts to deliver a comprehensive package of learning, support and development.
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Mary Myatt
Mary Myatt is an education adviser, writer and speaker. She engages with pupils, teachers and leaders about learning, leadership and the curriculum
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Alex Quigley
Alex Quigley is a Former English Teacher and author of author of Closing the Reading Gap and Closing the Vocabulary Gap.
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David Didau
Over the past 15 years, David Didau has worked with hundreds of schools in the UK and overseas on whole-school literacy.