Shine Interventions

Introduction

Shine Interventions are targeted interventions for reading skills, GPS, and maths. They are designed to address specific gaps in understanding and deliver targeted individual and group intervention activities.

You can purchase Shine Interventions here. Alternatively, contact your local assessment consultant. 

Primary school interventions for ages 4-11: 

• • Shine Interventions: Maths, driven by NTS Mathematics, New PUMA, or PUMA for Scotland results. Target all maths strands in the National Curriculum with over 200 potential intervention sequences.
  • Shine Interventions: Reading Skills, driven by NTS Reading, New PiRA, and PiRA for Scotland results. Target retrieval, inference and vocabulary with original fiction, non-fiction, and poetry texts. 
  • Shine Interventions: GPS, driven by New GaPS assessment results. Target grammar, punctuation, spelling, and vocabulary with fiction and non-fiction texts. 

Secondary school interventions for ages 10-16: 

• • Shine Interventions: Access Reading Tests (ART), designed to develop reading power and reading skills for learners who may not have achieved expected results when taking an Access Reading Test (ART). Each intervention (known as a Learning Sequence) contains an interactive teacher presentation, three worksheets (including texts and tasks) and an answer sheet.
  • Shine Interventions: Access Mathematics Tests (AMT), designed to develop essential maths skills for learners who may not have achieved expected results when taking an Access Mathematics Test (AMT). Each intervention (known as a Learning Sequence) contains an interactive teacher presentation, a printable worksheet (with a separate answer sheet), printable activities, an online quiz and teacher guidance notes.

Generating Shine Interventions Reports 

There are two types of Shine Interventions report: Individual and Grouped. For more information, see Shine Interventions Report Types.

Before you can generate a Shine Interventions report, you must record your learners' marks in Boost Insights for the corresponding test paper. You can do this by administering interactive tests or uploading paper test results. 

Once your learners' marks are on the system, follow our instructions for generating reports.

Finding and Using the Interventions/Learning Sequence Resources 

You can access the interventions/Learning Sequence resources via links embedded in the Individual and Grouped Shine Interventions reports.

Each Learning Sequence is a unit of remedial content that addresses an area of learning in each term. They are arranged in a specific order and contain instructions tailored to teachers and teaching assistants. 

At the bottom of this page you will find the record and impact forms, guidance documents, and monitoring sheets required to support your use of the Learning Sequences. 

Assigning AMT and ART Progress Quizzes and Strand Tests

Shine Interventions: AMT and ART include Progress quizzes for you to administer post-intervention to check your learners' progress and retention. 

Shine Interventions: AMT also includes Strand tests. These are used pre-intervention to determine which specific Learning Sequences a learner needs intervention in based on their AMT test results (each strand contains several Learning Sequences). 

You will need an active Shine Interventions: AMT and/or ART subscription to administer these tests and quizzes, but they do not require additional AMT and ART interactive test credits. 

For help assigning the Progress quizzes and Strand tests, click here.

Generating AMT and ART Intervention Quiz Reports

Once your learners have completed their AMT or ART intervention quizzes, you can generate two reports: an 'Intervention Progress Quiz Report' and an 'Intervention Quiz Report: Comparison View'. 

The 'Intervention Progress Quiz Report' can be generated for a class or group. It will show each learner’s total score as a percentage and how they've performed on each question.

The 'Intervention Quiz Report: Comparison View' can be generated for a class or group. It allows you to compare a learners’ results to track their progress. You can select up to six quizzes and must select a minimum of two to generate the report. 

For further guidance, see Generating Reports.

Using the Modelling Software for Shine Interventions: Reading Skills and GPS

Shine Interventions: Reading Skills and GPS include interactive modelling software for the 'Text A' Learning Sequences. 

You can use the modelling software with a large group on an interactive whiteboard or with smaller groups and individual learners on desktops and handheld devices. 

Follow the steps below to use the modelling software: 

1. Generate a Shine Interventions: Reading Skills or GPS report.
2. Click the link to the modelling software. 
3. Read the text on the 'Home' screen aloud, ask your learners to read it, or click the Play button to listen to the accompanying audio. 
4. Using the teaching guidance (attached at the bottom of this article), you can demonstrate approaches to the text by discussing with the pupils and asking questions.
5. Across the top of the screen you will find tabs for the three Areas of Learning: Retrieval, Vocabulary and Inference (for Reading Skills) and Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling and Vocabulary (for GPS). Click on these to show the questions alongside the text; click the questions to expand them. 
6. Use the teaching guidance to work through the question with pupils, highlighting evidence in the text using the different coloured highlighting tools.
7. Click Save Your Evidence to save your highlighted text to the answer screen.
8. When you are are ready to answer the questions, click Answer to view your highlighted evidence and enter your final answer.