Effective Teaching: Creating Meaningful Environments to Build Language and Literacy

The day will include two keynote addresses:

• Debra Myhill, Professor of Education at the University of Exeter, will offer a creative way of thinking about grammar in the curriculum
• Teresa Cremin, Professor of Education (Literacy) at The Open University, will explore the role that adult-child relationships play in fostering young readers and writers

There will also be sessions taken by leading experts in the field of literacy learning and difficulties.

Sessions include:

• Identifying and accelerating the assembly of working systems in Reading Recovery (Dr John Smith)
• Handing over the reins: Using observation to promote independence in writing (Dr Sinéad Harmey)
• Introduction to Storytelling (Kate Barron)
• ‘All Around the Word’: a closer look at children’s errors and how texts might help or hinder (Glen Franklin)
• Developing pupil independence by linking interventions with classroom work – a valuable role for teaching assistants (Dr Paula Bosanquet)
• Language support in the classroom - why do we need it and what should it look like? (Professor Julie Dockrell)
• Growing up: guiding reading in Key Stage 2 (Nikki Gamble, David Reedy, Wayne Tennent)
• Morphology – a missing link between meaning and structure? (Julia Douëtil)
• ‘The Active Learner’: problem solving messages in continuous text (Helen Morris)
• ‘Dealing with the Facts’: using non-fiction texts in Reading Recovery (Dr Sue Bodman)
• The writing or the writer: what is the priority for a teacher of writing in English primary schools? (Josh Franks)