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Smart Reading Intervention Mastery Webinars

Why do some reading interventions work and others don’t, even though you have exactly the same process?

Well, that is where the problem is, because different students are being held back by different issues. So the intervention needs to adjust to the challenge faced by the student.

For instance, here are five students who all need different intervention processes:

Student 1: Keeps guessing short words, despite reading long ones
Student 2: Reads accurately, but has very low comprehension
Student 3: Can read any word, but not a page of text
Student 4: Complains of the text “moving around on the page”
Student 5: Parents say that reading practice always ends in a tantrum

On Smart Reading Intervention Mastery we will give you simple solutions to each of these situations. Then you can start to see fast and consistent results. 

See below some of the comments teachers have made, about how amazed they are by how much they have learned.

The course is five sessions of around 40-45 minutes. We have courses starting every couple of weeks over the first half of each term, at different times and days of the week.

And here is the good news… right now you can:

A – Do Session 1 free of charge
B – Do the rest of the course for £70 ($95) instead of £350 (i.e. an 80% discount)

Use the link below to choose a date for Session 1: 

Register for Session 1 Free of Charge

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Bespoke Training

If you would like to discuss bespoke training options, just get in touch. We can provide short, specialist slots over Zoom, or a whole day of in-person training.

1 full day in-person training: £570 + VAT + £200 travel/accommodation

1 half day of in-person training: £320 + VAT + £200 travel/accommodation

1 hour webinar training: £175 + VAT

Please contact us to discuss your requirements and make a booking.

Meet Your Lead Trainers

David Morgan

David Morgan is the founder and lead educationalist of All Aboard Learning. His research focus has been literacy partly because he himself struggled to learn to read. David’s first degree was in mechanical engineering. He also has a Master’s degree in Education. David helped establish the Shannon Trust, a prison literacy charity, before setting up All Aboard Learning as a literacy research group in 2008. He has over 20 years of experience working with literacy for children, youths and adults.

Lucy Czech

Lucy has a BA (hons) in Primary Education from the University of Sheffield. As a classroom teacher of 20 years, she is highly experienced and has an in-depth knowledge of the Primary Curriculum. With a passion for early reading and phonics, Lucy has successfully led this area of the curriculum in many of the schools she has worked in, alongside gaining an NPQSL. As a recent Assistant Head Teacher, Lucy is confident in planning, implementing and monitoring school plans, alongside offering support and guidance for teachers.  Lucy is now keen to use her experience in schools, alongside her passion for early reading, at All Aboard Learning.

Eleanor Broome

Eleanor has a BA in French from the University of Oxford. She began teaching in the preschool environment, but has spent the majority of her career in primary-aged intervention as a reading specialist. As a passionate reader herself, Eleanor has dedicated her professional life to helping as many people as possible access the joy of reading. She loves collaborating with All Aboard teachers in the training environment.

Testimonials

“Lucy visited Rocklands and delivered a series of lessons throughout the school. Each lesson was pitched correctly and the level and content were perfectly matched to all the pupils’ abilities. Lucy was very flexible in sessions and was able to adapt and move sessions on to support the needs or the pupils and give the best possible resources and demonstrations to all teachers. Lucy offered choices and support to staff throughout the sessions and was very knowledgeable around all phases being taught. During the whole staff training session, she provided staff with valuable information to allow them to utilise the skills she had demonstrated. Lucy provided myself with vast amounts of additional information and support to allow us to successfully implement and embed the scheme across the diverse needs of the school, nothing was too much trouble and areas that were unfamiliar due to the additional needs of the children she took away and returned with prompt solutions or potential future possibilities. It was a real pleasure to have Lucy in school and staff learnt a lot. It would be great to maybe work alongside All Aboard to continue to develop the scheme to support SEN learners. Thank you.” – Rocklands Primary
 
“Thank you so much for the training on our P D Day last week.  It was hugely valuable for both existing and new staff and should enable us to confidently match, if not exceed, the 93% scored in the phonics screen in summer 24 (after only using the scheme since September 23).  The session was clear and informative and even though there were plenty of opportunities to ask questions, the session’s structure meant that these were few in number. The support from All Aboard Phonics is always fast and we have been pleased with how interested you are in all of our struggling readers, not just those in Year 1.  We look forward to working with you again this year.” – Saxmundham Primary
 

“Thank you to all three of you for coming all that way with so many fantastic resources. The training was superb and staff are really buzzing, including those that are often harder to convince. I can’t wait to get going!” – Pennine View School

As a collective, we thought that the AAP three week ‘implementation’ course was excellent. The course was hugely beneficial for all of us for different reasons. For those of the team who had little or no experience of teaching phonics, they received the ‘basic knowledge ‘required to understand how the teaching of phonics works. Those of us who have been using the AAP resources got lots of new practical ideas to use in the classroom and learned more about the science behind AAP. It also gave us the confidence to communicate with our new parents and the powerpoints for lessons will prove most useful next year. Even the most experienced teachers among us found the course extremely useful and interesting. We loved the interactive nature of the AAP CPD. We enjoyed being able to engage with other schools, answer questions and have our questions answered … the icing on the cake was actually winning a delicious prize, which by the way, was MOST appreciated and enjoyed by all of our team. Thank you for your support and follow-up communication. We now have the material to use when helping train new staff to use and deliver AAP. Thanks again Ladies! We give your CPD: FIVE STARS – Prenton Preperatory

I found this very helpful, the techniques used in classrooms are excellent. Very easy to use and implement across the whole class and then to individuals separately to access learning and do interventions if needed. I particularly found the simple technique of focus on one finger very helpful if a child is struggling with reading text. I give the course 5 stars, it was very informative and easy to implement. I also really enjoyed the training video and being 20 minutes long is perfect! 5 STARS. We have been using the Phase 1 resources in school since the Prototype was initially shared and are really enjoying it. As a special school we have a large cohort of pre-phonics pupils in Key Stages 1/2/3 who need lots of support to develop Early language skills. This resource is proving to be really useful to structure some approaches to this. It is also giving teachers a clear idea who is ready for the next stage of phonics. We are also finding it really helpful for “filling the gaps” of some students who have learnt all of the sounds in isolation but are struggling to blend and/or segment. I look forward to sharing the training video with our staff teams. It will be a great reinforcer for the coaching/training we have already provided within school. – The Valley School
 
“The training is really good, I’ve been teaching phonics for years and I’m still learning something. I like that it was backed with research. Thank you!” – St Frideswide Primary School
 
Myself and Katie Elliot have attended your phonics course for the past three weeks. We have found it really informative and inspiring. The presentation and content was excellent and after a full day of teaching and rushing for 3pm to get their on time we really enjoyed the sessions. The videos of the practical application shown in real schools was also a really useful part of the training to see the phonics in action. – Foreland Fields
 
It has really helped me to analyse what exactly is going on when a child is struggling. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to do this. It has given me lots to take away and a focus for reviewing my practice. – Ash C of E Primary School
 
I really enjoyed the course and am looking forward to starting to use some of the techniques discussed. – Mayesbrook Park School
 
Fantastic course. Very informative and information conveyed was to the point and clear to understand. Gave fantastic insights in how to use all aboard in the classroom as well as during interventions. – Rocklands Primary School
 
A fabulous training day for the whole school staff. Invaluable for colleagues who have had less experience teaching Phonics! – Norden Primary School