Reading

 The following monitoring tools focus on decoding, comprehension, metacognition and self-regulation skills

• Learning walks/’pop-ins’ - The teaching and learning is captured through the different stages of the reading lesson.
• Pupil voice - Children complete an age-appropriate Rising Stars’ reading assessment with a leader and their decoding and comprehension strategies are recorded. This pupil voice also captures their interest in and experience of reading at home.
• Book Scrutiny – The children bring their reading books as part of their pupil voice to discuss the reading structure, vocabulary focus and content domains.
• Progress towards Attainment Discussions and Pupil Progress Reviews – These capture the frequency of reading at home along with the number of Quizzes completed and scores achieved per half term through Accelerated Reader.

Writing

• Learning walks/pop ins – Writing -The teaching and learning is captured through the focus on the use of clear learning outcomes, clear steps to success, modelling of a high quality WAGOLL (What a good one looks like), age appropriate non negotiables, focus on Alan Peat sentence types
• Pupil voice - Children can discuss what they are doing well and what they are currently working on in their non negotiables. The children are able to talk about their progress using their books.
• Book Scrutiny – Progress is captured through presentation, quantity, quality and handwriting.
• Progress towards Attainment Discussions and Pupil Progress Reviews – These focus on children who are not making expected progress and books are scrutinised to highlight gaps in provision and learning and identify next steps to support.