Literacy Acceleration

Abstract

Literacy Acceleration is a strategy which involves giving low attainers in literacy intensive daily help in small literacy groups for part of each week.This article describes the approach and presents data resulting from its implementation with two groups of students over the first two years of their secondary education, corroborating earlier research. Whether alternative, integrated teaching can be justified, in the absence of any evidence that it is effective, is questioned. The involvement of educational psychologists (EPs) with individual education plans (IEPs) is cited as a way of enabling them to play an influential role in school improvement initiatives.