Using data to inform instruction

Overview

Literacy specialist Elaine Stanley presents this explanation of how to use data to inform your phonics instruction.

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Resources mentioned in the video

Literacy Hub Topic 4: Fluency and progress monitoring [0.48]

Who is this video for?

Foundation to year 2 teachers; school leaders

What will you learn?

How to analyse data collected using a progress monitoring tool, and how to respond to this data using the Response to Intervention (RTI) framework and the gradual release of responsibility model.

Presenter

Elaine Stanley is an experienced teacher, school leader and literacy coach. She has had extensive experience implementing systematic synthetic phonics in primary school classrooms, and has recently coached disadvantaged schools around Australia.

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