Why?
Reading Progress and Reading Coach are excellent tools built into Microsoft Teams to support the development and assessment of reading skills. These tools allow teachers to create customised or AI-generated reading passages and comprehension questions, making it easy to deliver targeted, engaging, and differentiated literacy tasks.
This session will explore how to access and use Reading Progress and Reading Coach effectively, create assignments, view the pupil experience, gather assessment data, and integrate the tools across various curricular areas. It will support your planning, teaching, and assessment of reading in line with Highly Effective Practice.
Who is this for?
This session is suitable for both primary and secondary staff.
Session Outline
- What is Reading Progress?
- Creating a Reading Progress assignment
- Generating reading passages and comprehension
- Student view of Reading Progress
- Targeted support with Reading Coach
- Accessing Reading Coach through Class Notebook
- Cross-curricular learning and teaching ideas
- Accessing assessment data
Elements of Highly Effective Practice
Planning
Teaching
Learning
Assessment
Other Details
Online (Teams): 26th May – 4pm to 5pm
Edinburgh Learns Digital | City of Edinburgh Council 