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ExploreReading & Whole-School Literacy Training
Reading is the key that unlocks the whole curriculum. Pupils who read well can access everything; those who struggle fall behind in every subject. This training helps your whole staff build reading and literacy into every classroom, so every pupil can read, understand, and thrive.
Below, we explain what our reading and literacy training involves, and how it helps you raise reading standards across the school.
What Is Reading & Whole-School Literacy Training?
It’s practical training that helps staff develop reading and literacy across the school. We cover reading for meaning, vocabulary, disciplinary literacy, and supporting struggling and reluctant readers, so literacy is everyone’s job, not just the English department’s.
We draw on the evidence around reading and give staff practical strategies to build a whole-school reading culture that lifts outcomes in every subject.
Who Is This Training For?
It’s designed for all education settings: maintained schools, academies, and multi-academy trusts, Alternative Provisions, and SEND Units/Hubs. It works for whole-school INSET, subject teams, literacy leads, and primary or secondary staff. Trusts often run it across schools for a shared literacy strategy.
Many schools ask for it to raise reading standards, close the vocabulary gap, or build reading across the curriculum.
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What Does the Training Cover?
We shape the content around your priorities. You can book a whole-school INSET, a group session, or focused one-to-one support. Our most common areas include:
- Reading for meaning and comprehension
- Building vocabulary across subjects
- Disciplinary literacy: reading in every subject
- Supporting struggling and reluctant readers
- Reading for pleasure and a reading culture
- Closing the gap for disadvantaged pupils
- Supporting pupils with SEND to read well
- Building a whole-school approach to literacy
How This Training Helps Your School, Academy, Trust, or Alternative Provision
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Raise reading standards
Staff learn to build reading into every subject. Pupils read better and access more of the curriculum.
2
Close the vocabulary gap
We show staff how to teach the academic vocabulary disadvantaged pupils most need.
3
Make literacy everyone’s job
Every teacher learns their role in reading, so literacy isn’t left to the English department alone.
4
Support struggling readers
Your team learns practical strategies to help pupils who find reading hard to catch up.
5
Build a reading culture
We help you make reading for pleasure part of school life, which lifts outcomes and wellbeing.
6
Include pupils with SEND
We show how to support every learner to read and understand, whatever their starting point.
7
Improve outcomes across the curriculum
Better reading lifts results in every subject, because reading underpins all learning.
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How the Training Works
- 1We talk with you to understand your context, your staff, and what you want to change.
- 2We tailor the content to your setting, your phase, and your improvement priorities.
- 3We model the strategies live and use texts from your curriculum, so the training is grounded and relevant.
- 4We deliver the training in person or online, in a way that fits your calendar.
- 5We give you practical resources and tools your staff can use straight away.
- 6We follow up to help you embed the learning, so it sticks and changes classroom practice.
What Your Staff Get
Every participant comes away with more than notes. They get:
- Clear, practical strategies they can use in the next lesson
- A shared language and consistent approach across the team
- Ready-to-use resources, tools, and templates
- The confidence to put the training into practice
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Key Features of Our Training
Evidence-informed
We draw on the strongest reading research and turn it into classroom practice.
Tailored to your school
We shape the training around your phase, subjects, and reading priorities.
Whole-school, group, or individual
Book an INSET, a subject session, or coaching. We adapt to you.
Why Choose Jarvis Education?
We work only with education settings. We know reading underpins everything, and how to build literacy across a whole school. Our training helps you raise reading standards, with every decision staying focused on children.
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Next Steps & How to Get Started
- Speak to one of our experts. We’ll explain how we work, answer your questions, and help you shape the right training for your staff.
- We agree dates and delivery that suit your calendar, in person or online, and confirm everything in writing.
- Contact us today to discuss how we can support your school, academy, trust, and alternative provision.
- We’re ready to help and support you.
Who We Work With
We support settings of every type across England and internationally.
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