Lifelong readers Event
- Time:
- 12:30 - 13:30
- Date:
- 30 October 2013
- Venue:
- 67 (Nightingale) / E2011T (Room 9)
For more information regarding this event, please email Lisa Then at L.Then@soton.ac.uk .
Event details
An ideas and skills workshop, exploring ways in which adults can help children to be lifelong readers.
Author Neil Griffiths will be running this workshop which will focus on: tips on helping children choose books, inspirational techniques for sharing books, the importance of storytelling techniques and reviewing ideas.
A buffet lunch will be kindly supplied by the Diversity Team. Please book your place at diversity@soton.ac.uk
Speaker information
Neil Griffiths ,"Corner to Learn", was a Primary School headteacher for 13 years before taking on the role of director of a National Literacy Project for the Basic Skills Agency. This agency believed in Neil’s highly original Storysack idea and allowed him to promote it to schools and communities throughout the U.K. After six years, Neil began to devote all of his energies to the project and set up what is now a highly accalaimed, award-winning business.