Mindmap ideas of what a communication session could look like in your setting:

Duration

What

Who (Which staff)

Which Objectives

Where

Group 1: listen to teacher read and answer questions about the text periodically.

Group 2: take turns reading a shared book in a small group in a different space.

Group 3: 1 student sits down with staff member

This takes half an hour.

1 staff member per group.

Group 1 objectives: answer questions about the story.

Group 2 objectives: once a student has read their section - staff ask the other students questions about what has just been read.

Group 3 objectives: discuss some thought provoking questions and have a mini debate with staff member. Or play word games such as hangman.