Research Links.

Recommended pre-reading and discussion questions	The Education Endowment Foundation’s KS2 Literacy guidance report	KS2 Literacy Guidance Report
Questions to think about or discuss with colleagues	​Which aspects of the guidance do you think will be most important to focus on given the current challenges for schools? Which recommendations feel like priorities for your school or classroom?
Extension reading	​If you want to explore additional resources and information in preparation for the programme, then the following are recommended:	The KS1 Literacy guidance report has recently been updated and contains much that will still be relevant for KS2
Ending the Reading Wars: Reading Acquisition From Novice to Expert	A comprehensive tutorial review of the science of learning to read, spanning from children’s earliest alphabetic skills through to the fluent word recognition and skilled text comprehension characteristic of expert readers. The authors explain why phonics instruction is so central to learning in a writing system such as English. They also review the research on what else children need to learn to become expert readers and considering how this might be translated into effective classroom practice.	Ending the reading wars
Impact of school closures on KS1: potential implications for practice in year 2	Impact of school closures on Key Stage 1: potential implications for practice in Year 2.	NFER/EEF Report ​
Launch Event Slides	An introduction to the programme.	Introduction
Putting Evidence to Work - A School’s Guide to Implementation | Education Endowment Foundation | EEF ​	A guide to implementation applicable to any school improvement decision	​​Putting Evidence to Work

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