[senco-forum] Progress Unit

From: chris white <chris19251 at blueyonder.co.uk>

I'd say go for the Ruth Miskin Freshstart.  It's rather different from the progress units, but has the added bonus of really improving reading skills.

I think the PUs came out in 2001.  I 'delivered' some of them in the first year but found them very difficult to fit into the time allowed! Making the resources was a nightmare.. Children didn't make much 'progress' I'm afraid.  We abandoned them after that.

How did you find them, Chris?  Did they improve the children's levels?

Maggie

--- On Wed, 16/4/08, chris white <chris19251 at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

> From: chris white <chris19251 at blueyonder.co.uk>
> Subject: [senco-forum] Progress Unit
> To: "'senco forum'" <senco-forum at lists.becta.org.uk>
> Date: Wednesday, 16 April, 2008, 7:10 PM
> Hi all,              
> Having used the DFES level 3-4 Year 7 Progress Units since
> they were first
> introduced... it seems like about 10 years ago but probably
> isn't that long!
> (5 or 6 probably) I've decided that they are getting
> dated and want to
> replace them with something else in September.
> (Besides which I never liked them anyway although they were
> greatly improved
> by a couple of my support assistants who designed excellent
> Power Point
> Presentations to go with them).
> 
> I've talked to the literacy coordinator in school and
> she says I can have
> some money and or time off timetable to write some new
> schemes of work to
> replace the Progress Units.
> 
> However not being one to reinvent the wheel are there any
> suggestions of
> existing appropriate materials that could be used?
> 
> The lessons will continue in the form we've been using
> i.e. 3 mornings a
> week for 20 minutes with groups of between 6-8 pupils
> taught by two support
> assistants/HLTAs.  I wish to cover the same material as the
> Progress Units
> in order to enable pupils to progress from level 3 to 4.
> Thanks
> 
> Chris

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