Early Literacy Stratey (ELS) - anyone now much about it?

[Hulababy]

It is something being considered for some pupils in my study support group in my new job.

I know nothing about it as yet.

Can anyone enlighten me?

It depends what you want to know!!
Have a look at this website for a start.
www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/primary/faqs/literacy/229245/#404549

Most schools do a version of it rather than follow it to the letter. There will be a folder in school with all the info you will need. It will also need to be discussed with the classteacher as ideally it is not done in isolation outside the classroom.

They do have a folder but somene was using it.

It is an idea being mooted by the school. 3 mornings a week I will be coordinating a study support group for selected Y1 and Y2 pupils. There will be me and another 4 or 5 support workers, who will all have a small group of pupils each) 5 or 6 pupils per group).

One of the suggestions is for a small group of Y1s to work through some ELS stuff in order for them to be more likely to reach their targets for Y1/Y2.

I am new to primary school, started the TA job yesterday and the teacher in charge meantioned this to me yesterday. I already knew about the study group, just not what it entailed prperly.

But I don't know the ELS and how it works, and its key objectives. I work as a TA in a Y1 class, so discussing with class teacher if it happens not a problem.

Just wndered if anyone des it at school and how they run it and how it works? Or if anyone's children do it - and how they feel about it.

Not any experience of it but think if you search on MN you'll find a number of threads where children have been put forward for it and parents have been shocked and had reservations. There is a fear of it being negative (child is failing) rather than recognised as positive (getting over barriers to achieve learning potential). Perhaps when it is implemented it could be given a positive spin to parents.

Quite a good explanation of it here

The DCSF's 'Wave 2' 'small group' intervention programmes (ELS /ALS/ FLS) were whole-language based. ELS was rewritten (Jan 2008) 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 Report 2006. 133) Unfortunately, the revised ELS appears to consist of the new DCFS synthetic phonics programme, Letters and Sounds, bolted on to the original whole-language programme, rather than a genuine rewrite. It still includes a miscue analysis assessment, uses 'real books' from Recovery Recovery Book Bands rather than decodable texts, and contains a percentage of superfluous whole-language exercises and 'busy-work' which will not help a child learn to read.

Thanks.

I have no idea how the whole thing will work yet, nor how the pupils will be informed, or rather their pafrents. It is a before school support group, between 8:15 and 8:45. The pupils selected will be there for differing reasons.