Total Words is a multi-use, digital reading platform. It is a library, learning activities and an App that records pupils’ progress and shows teachers and pupils how to rapidly extend readers’ skills.
More than a multi-use digital reading platform, it is a cost-effective, time-effective, progress-focused system that provides schools with the resources they need to create competent, motivated and confident readers.
Total Words delivers
• High-quality, topic-related reading books
• Learning activities that extend comprehension, recall, critiquing of content, and creative responses to text
• A ‘no-fail’ success-only learning process that is motivating and confidence-building
• A data system that answers the one key question: ‘what is the most effective way for this this child, this class, this school to become competent in reading?’.
• Data system that measures the effectiveness of reading sessions, not the child, that measures pupil progress as it is being made, daily and weekly, avoiding delays and enabling schools to see evidence of the impact of their teaching, that provides evidence of the impact of learning opportunities on progress: the number of words read daily, the selection of books, the frequency of reading sessions, the duration.
Total words is four things: value, transparency, accountability, results.
