Words for All
Our professional development framework, Words for All, works with schools and trusts at a strategic level to improve reading culture, confidence and identity, as well as students’ academic outcomes. At the heart of Words for All, is our belief that skilled, confident reading is a vital key for unlocking learning, empowering students, and helping them to reach their academic potential. Every child has the fundamental human right to read, and this right is realised by enabling confident and capable practitioners who can empower young minds to thrive through reading.
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 reading and academic outcomes across your school or trust.
You will benefit from:
OUR NETWORK
Connect with like-minded individuals within our local and global network to share best practice, challenges and collaborate on development.
COACHING
Receive dedicated 1:1 support each term, focused on fostering the deep thinking necessary for effective strategic planning of reading initiatives within your school or trust.
RESOURCES
Our expert webinars and resources will enhance your professional development and that of your colleagues, providing clarity, confidence, and consistency for the strategic leadership of reading within your school or trust.
The Words for All framework is available to all schools and is included in our School Membership to the Whole Education Network. You can also access it as an individual school, part of a MAT or school grouping.
We support you in exploring five key areas of strategic leadership for reading:
Vision and Rationale
Curriculum and Pedagogy
Data, Diagnostic and Assessment
CPDL
Leadership of Reading
“I’ve always been interested in and got engaged with Words for All because of those roots about supporting every child to thrive. There’s no other priority that for me would stand higher than opening up the curriculum for our pupils with language, vocabulary, reading
and writing.”
“Words for all supports us in our mission to ensure that every child becomes a reader because every adult in our schools fulfils their responsibility to ensure this happens.”