Events - March 2013
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20Mar2013
Start time: 09:30
End time: 15:30
Cost: £230.00, Additional tickets: £210.00
Venue:
Merchant Taylors Hall
Aldwark
York
YO1 7BX
Online registration has closed.Developing lifelong readers and learners - York
The new draft curriculum is currently open for consultation, and schools will be given next academic year to prepare for teaching it from September 2014. This one day conference will provide you with practical approaches to teaching reading across the whole school in the context of the new curriculum. Speakers include celebrated children’s author Aidan Chambers who will discuss the role of children's literature and provide inspiration for developing children as readers.
Speakers:
Aidan Chambers, author
Prue Goodwin, literacy expert
Donna Thomson, founder of Think2Read
Bea Gill, Think2Read Lead Practitioner
Julie Gibbings, National Literacy Trust
What will I learn?
Whole-school approaches to support continued success in school in light of the most recent curriculum developments
How to develop independent reading, thinking, communication and cross-curricular enquiry in Key Stages 1 and 2
Approaches to help children learn to become independent readers who read for enjoyment
Suggestions for both fiction and non-fiction books to support reading development
Agenda for the day
Introduction to the new curriculum with Julie Gibbings
This introduction will give an overview of the key changes to the national curriculum, looking in particular at the draft English programmes of study and the requirement to develop pupils’ spoken language, reading and writing in every subject.Keynote: Teaching Reading: Another new curriculum?
An introduction to the day and examination of the teaching of reading. This keynote will reflect on the effect of years of change on classroom practices and then on the latest policy changes to provide ways forward for schools that support continued success.Reading for pleasure and the importance of pupil choice
Staff from our Young Readers Programme will demonstrate: book selection strategies for young people; activity ideas to promote reading for pleasure and its positive socialising impact; non-book texts and ideas to support engagement with reading.
Delegates will be split into two groups in the afternoon to attend each of the two workshops below.
Workshop 1: Theory, practice and power of reciprocal reading
Led by Think2Read experts Donna Thomson and Bea Gill, this workshop looks at developing independent reading, thinking, communication and cross-curricular enquiry in Key Stages 1 and 2. Think2Read’s explicit and sustainable primary “whole-school” approach to teaching reciprocal reading and understanding has grown organically out of 10 years of action-research, successful school trials and evaluations of the project by literacy experts.The aim of the session is to share these findings and support leaders and practitioners in implementing essential practice in the teaching of inference and questioning techniques that underpin reading for meaning and cross-curricular learning.
Workshop 2: Independent readers: Rethinking reading books
This workshop session with Prue Goodwin will offer colleagues opportunities to reflect on how we can help children learn to become independent readers who "read for pleasure". Consideration of all primary age groups will be included, but the focus will be on independent reading especially with pupils from Year 2 to Year 6. The workshop time will be divided between a presentation, discussion with colleagues and suggestions about books to support reading development - particularly from Key Stage 1 to Key Stage 2.Closing session: Aidan Chambers and children's literature
Renowned children's author Aidan Chambers will discuss the role of children's literature and provide inspiration for developing children as readers.
