Creative Approaches to Teaching Grammar and Improving Reading Comprehension Event
- Time:
- 09:30 - 15:30
- Date:
- 21 January 2019
- Venue:
- Building 65, Room 1173, Avenue Campus, University of Southampton, Highfield Road, Southampton, SO17 1BF
For more information regarding this event, please telephone Mathematics and Science Learning Centre on 023 8059 8810 or email mslc@soton.ac.uk .
Event details
This one day course, led by David Reedy is split into two sessions. The morning session covers teaching grammar creatively. In the afternoon David will consider how reading comprehension can be more effective. Participants can attend either or both sessions.
Creative approaches to teaching grammar
Morning Session
We will explore how creative approaches to teaching grammar can be developed both in English lessons and across the curriculum. The emphasis will be upon enabling all pupils to deepen their responses to texts and their understanding of why authors utilise particular grammatical features, as well as helping to inform and develop the quality of their writing for a range of purposes.
Improving Reading Comprehension
Afternoon session
Making sense of texts lies at the heart of the teaching of reading in primary classrooms. This involves both deepening comprehension of the texts children encounter as well as engagement and enjoyment of reading. Comprehension depends on inference making. Readers cannot develop a literal understanding of text without inference. In this session David will draw on the co-authored book ‘Guiding Readers 7-11’ (Tennent, Reedy, Gamble and Hobsbaum 2016) and will touch on the research and evidence background, the key comprehension strategies which support inference making, as well as practical activities around short texts for participants to engage in and how these can be integrated into the ongoing reading curriculum.
Course fees
Early bird bookings must be received by 5.00pm on Friday 23rd November 2018.
All session include Lunch
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One session (morning or afternoon) |
Whole day (both sessions) |
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Early bird £65 per person |
Early bird £99 per person |
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Regular course fee £80 per person |
Regular course fee £130 per person |
Speaker information
David Reedy,is former General Secretary and a past President of the United Kingdom Literacy Association (UKLA). He was Co-Director of the Cambridge Primary Review Trust until 2017. From 2010 to 2014 he worked as Principal Adviser for primary schools in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham. David’s most recent books include: Teaching Grammar Effectively in Primary Schools (2013) with Eve Bearne, Guiding Readers – Layers of Meaning : A handbook for teaching reading comprehension to 7 – 11 year olds (2016) with Wayne Tennant, Nikki Gamble, and Angela Hobsbaum, and Teaching Primary English : Subject knowledge and classroom practice. (2018) with Eve Bearne