FAQs

Ready Steady Intervention is a 1:1 intervention for reading.

For children that make progress less quickly in reading from year 1 through to year 10. For KS1, the children should be slightly below age related expectation or below the Expected standard. For KS2 & KS3 the children should be reading below their chronological age.

It is usually thought that year 1 children who are reading below the expectation should be involved in over-learning of phonics. Many phonic schemes include such opportunities and resources.

It encourages the love of reading, a wider range of reading and helps develop children into effective independent readers. It ensures that all children are able to read easily, fluently and with good understanding (comprehension). This intervention can also improve the ability, stamina and confidence of the lowest 20%.

Teacher Assistants and a Senior Leadership Team member or Higher-Level Teaching Assistant usually coordinates the team.

It is compatible with current approaches to the teaching of reading, including Synthetic Phonics Programmes.

It is a short and impactful intervention which can last for up to 10 weeks. (3 x 15-20min sessions each week.) It can be longer or shorter depending on how many sessions are run per week.

There is an assessment on entry to and exit from the programme. A simple weekly reading analysis/ Running Record Tracking tool is used to monitor progress. Other tools used by the school can also be used e.g. Benchmarking.

No additional books are required. It is important to have books which are going to interest each child.

2 school days and an SLT member/Coordinator is encouraged to attend on the first morning. (It usually works well when this person also joins the training at the end of Day 2 to agree actions.)

The training works very well when both days of training are within the same week.

In terms of resources, we source schools with a short handbook, model letters, model reading assessment sheet and structure for the intervention but schools need to source the reading books children use themselves. These are often from books you already have in school and we give guidance as to how to select these books. 

Schools will need to source their own reading books but these will be from what is already in school. We give advice as to how to select the correct level book for each child.

Yes. In reference to the Education Endowment Foundation Teaching and Learning Toolkit, it includes 6 of the strategies that have the highest impact: Metacognitions & Self-regulation, Reading Comprehension Strategies, Feedback, Phonics, 1:1 Tuition and Teaching Assistant Intervention.

There are no formal lesson plans for Ready Steady Intervention. It is more a standard approach which is used along with a specific reading analysis.