what is els?

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dd told me this evening she in els for numbers? (im assuming education learning support??) is this an additional support group? is it only used for children who are struggling etc or could it be used for children attaining slightly higher?

ELS stands for early literacy support.
ELS was rewritten (2007) with the aim of bringing it in line with the Rose Report which stated that, 'High quality (synthetic) phonic work, as defined by the review, should be a key feature of the provision in each of these 'waves' (Rose 2006. para 133) Though better than the original ELS, the revised ELS appears to consist of the original whole-language programme bolted on to the DfE's early reading programme, Letters and Sounds, rather than a genuine rewrite. It still includes a miscue analysis assessment, uses whole language books rather than phonically decodable texts, and contains unnecessary 'busy-work' which will not help your child learn to read.

ok thanks for that so it has nothing to do with numeracy, I cant imagine dd would be part of that programme unless it is nation wide with all children as her reading seems to be level 3 NC.

thank you for the information. Not sure where she got that from . maybe just curiosity on her part, as when I asked her this morning what she does in her els group she seemed to not have a clue but could tell me who was in the group, most of her friends in class, so maybe just attempting to identify with her friends.