LITERACY

RWBA aims to have literacy at the heart of learning: confident literacy skills provide pupils with the language they need to ensure academic success and success in their lives beyond school. The teaching and development of these skills does not occur naturally, nor is it confined to English: rather it spans the entire curriculum, across all subject disciplines.

We aim to equip all staff with the awareness, knowledge and confidence to deliver these vitally important skills in a way that is beneficial to their own subject discipline and to the whole academic development of each student that they teach. Students receive feedback on their literacy and oracy through simple marking codes, disciplinary content feedback, and through the Voice21 oracy framework.

We understand that students can struggle with their literacy in a variety of ways so we strive to identify what support each individual needs and create meaningful and robust interventions that will ensure eventual success in each subject.

Reading and the Library

R.N.I.B. Bookshare

As a school we have access to the R.N.I.B. Bookshare. This is available for use by our visually impaired students. However, we can also use this for students with a learning difficulty such as Dyslexia, A.S.D. and A.D.H.D.

It contains over 950,000 textbooks in electronic format. And when coupled with the Dolphin EasyReader App (free) enables readers to download and read digital versions of books. Students can customise the texts to dyslexia-friendly fonts, increasing text size, adjusting colour schemes and voice settings to suit their individual preference and have access to read aloud features. They can install this app on their phone and can discretely listen in a lesson with the teacher’s permission or at the very least read at home.

Please find a flyer attached with more information on how to access the app. Students under the age of 16 years need permission from their parents/guardians to use the app.