KSS Literacy Strategy
Kidsgrove Secondary School’s curriculum offer provides our pupils with a multitude of learning opportunities within various subject areas. However, analysis of pupil groups identifies literacy skills as one of the greatest barriers to students accessing the curriculum. It is recognised nationally that effective reading skills and a broad vocabulary strongly correlate with successful academic outcomes.
Our aim is to ensure pupils are prepared with the literacy skills required for their chosen programmes of study at KS4, enabling them to achieve and progress to the next stage of education.
From September 2023 Kidsgrove Secondary School have partnered up with Sparx Reader to launch an additional layer to the reading strategy.
Sparx Reader is a reading, comprehension and vocabulary programme that gets all young people reading regularly to help improve their literacy and motivates them to read for pleasure.
Students take a test and then they choose a book according to their level. Sparx Reader will regularly check their understanding of the story throughout the book by asking question based on comprehension of the text they are reading. Students are rewarded Sparx Reader Points by reading carefully and over time, their literacy and reading abilities will improve.
Students always have a choice in what they read as this is important to develop our reading for pleasure culture.