Reading students toe the line
Finding a way into fluent reading can be difficult for people of all ages, but a programme introduced by Orewa College last year is making inroads for some students....
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Tuesday 7 June 2011
Shannon Trust (UK) Newsletters
Shannon Trust runs the Toe by Toe Reading Plan, an award-winning peer mentoring programme which encourages and supports prisoners who can read to give one-to-one tuition to prisoners who struggle to read. In 2007, they provided resources to teach over five thousand new learners in prison.
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Thursday 16 December 2010
An excellent worker – without revealing his secret
'Kent Grant' now in his late sixties, had long since given up trying to read and really resented people's attitudes.............
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Thursday 2 December 2010
A letter from another happy grandad!
I am Darien's grandfather, and have been involved in helping with Darien’s Toe by Toe reading programme over the last seven months.
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Wednesday 1 December 2010
Toe by Toe by Telephone
At 82 years old, Keith Webster is teaching his son, Neil 54, to read and is succeeding .....
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Wednesday 3 November 2010
Toe by Toe - Data Collection Sheet
This form is a guide for tutors to access pre and post reading levels.
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Friday 23 April 2010
Toe by Toe - Certificate of Achievement
This form can be downloaded by tutors for presentation to students on completion of Toe by Toe
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Friday 23 April 2010
Toe by Toe - Linwood College Report
Students at Linwood College, completing Toe by Toe in 2006, improved their reading ages by an average of two to five years. It has proved equally successful with adults...
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Tuesday 12 May 2009
Stride Ahead Summary - Telford Rural Polytechnic
Now this is truly gratifying because most of these students are young men who disliked high school and did not succeed well in the school system.
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Friday 1 May 2009
Seizing the day - The Listener Article
Meeting school students' health and literacy needs can have a remrkable "booster" effect.
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Saturday 5 July 2008
Tongariro School Progress Sheet
Tongariro School in the central North Island run all three of Keda Cowling's programmes, Toe by Toe, Stride Ahead and Stareway to Spelling. This summary is progress results for Toe by Toe.
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Wednesday 2 April 2008
West Dunbartonshire Article
Once upon a time, in a deprived part of Scotland, a plan was put into place to wipe out pupil illiteracy within a decade. Ten years on, it's worked. Kirsty Scott reports....(Tuesday July 10, 2007 - The Guardian)
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Tuesday 10 July 2007
Toe by Toe - Taradale Intermediate School Summary
Taradale Intermediate has been using Toe by Toe, with RTLB support, since early 2006. A priority has been sticking to the programme as advised by the authors. Teacher assistants have worked as tutors for 20 minute sessions, four times a week. A hidden benefit has been that the teacher assistants have gained professional knowledge through supporting and mentoring each other, as well as their involvement in the Toe by Toe process.
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Thursday 8 June 2006
Toe by Toe - Report
Report on Toe by Toe: The Shannon Trust Reading Scheme in the Secure Estate
Executive Summary
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Thursday 31 March 2005
