Butterfly Excellence
Improving the reading levels of underachieving children.
Real Action
Butterfly Excellence aimed to improve the reading levels of struggling children through structured whole-class synthetic phonics instruction and English subject teaching, using the Butterfly Reading Programme created by Irina Tyk.
The project consisted of a direct intervention period when Real Action’s specially trained Butterfly Practitioners delivered Butterfly classes of up to 15 pupils selected by their teachers for their literacy needs. Then, after delivering one-hour classes twice a week for 12 weeks in most schools, Real Action provided their teachers with induction sessions, sharing with them Butterfly teaching, its methodology and its practices.
On average pupils’ reading ages improved by 10 months in an average 18 hours’ Butterfly teaching. The reading attainment gaps were narrowed across both phases.
Contact
Jemma Pym: [email protected]
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