Course Details The new proposed curriculum recommends that children should apply their literacy skillsconfidently and competently in their learning and everyday contexts. They should conveytheir ideas and opinions clearly and respond creatively and critically to a wide range ofinformation and ideas. They should learn how to read fluently and listen and respond totexts of all kind; material which will arouse their interest in, and develop a love of booksand reading.This course will:Suggest a range of exciting, challenging and appropriate texts for use in the classroomto encourage young readers and act as models for their own early writing. This will be apractical session with ideas and strategies for teachers to use in school.Participants will be given:An increased understanding of the process of early writing.An opportunity to view and assess a range of appropriate resources to use in theclassroom.The chance to explore a variety of strategies and practical approaches for using andexploring texts...
The new proposed curriculum recommends that children should apply their literacy skillsconfidently and competently in their learning and everyday contexts. They should conveytheir ideas and opinions clearly and respond creatively and critically to a wide range ofinformation and ideas. They should learn how to read fluently and listen and respond totexts of all kind; material which will arouse their interest in, and develop a love of booksand reading.This course will:Suggest a range of exciting, challenging and appropriate texts for use in the classroomto encourage young readers and act as models for their own early writing. This will be apractical session with ideas and strategies for teachers to use in school.Participants will be given:An increased understanding of the process of early writing.An opportunity to view and assess a range of appropriate resources to use in theclassroom.The chance to explore a variety of strategies and practical approaches for using andexploring texts...
Professor Gervase Phinn taught in a range of schools for fourteen years, before becoming an education advisor and school inspector.He is now a freelance lecturer, broadcaster, author and poet. He is a former President of the School Library Association. Gervase Phinn is probably best known for his five best-selling autobiographical novels based on his life as a school inspector in North Yorkshire, books which he read on the Radio 4 programme, ‘Book of the Week’. ‘Head Over Heels’ in the Dales was a number one best-seller. In addition, he has published a wide range of poetry, short stories, nonfiction material, plays and academic texts. His early memoir ‘Road to theDales: The Story of a Yorkshire Lad’ published by Penguin, was an instant best-seller.