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Skills Meeting Monday 10 th September 2012. SKILLS. Literacy Profiles For tutors. Year 7 intake. 34 new students below Level 4 in Literacy 5.3% of the new Year 7 students have a reading age of below 8 years. Reading Age: 12+.
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Skills Meeting Monday 10th September 2012
Literacy Profiles For tutors
Year 7 intake • 34 new students below Level 4 in Literacy • 5.3% of the new Year 7 students have a reading age of below 8 years
Reading Age: 12+ There are many different ways of controlling rivers and reducing the risk of flooding. The methods shown below are called flood prevention schemes because they try to stop floods happening. (Yr 7 Geography) Throughout late June and July 1381 the roadsides of the southeast of England were littered with the rotting corpses of peasants that hung from makeshift gallows. (Yr 7 History)
Reading Age: <8 • This is the average reading age of a child in Year 3. • Reading age = interest age? • Implications for GCSE and beyond if literacy is not strengthened
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