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Creative ways of delivering A Christmas Carol through television and stage adaptations This session introduces the Educational Recording Agency’s new materials for A Christmas Carol that encourage students to read the text through engaging television and stage adaptations of the novella. The materials are carefully designed to enhance students’ understanding of their literature text, through…
Despite the universal nature and significance of dreaming, the psychological sciences have had a historically uneasy relationship with dreams as a topic of study. The past three decades, however, have seen this wheel turn again, with advances in cognitive research provoking a re-awakening of sorts. Such research is provoking new questions not just about dreaming…
Exploring the new Close Reading Archive with teachers and teacher-educators Join a panel of experts to find out how they have used the newly-launched Close Reading Archive with their students. We’ll discuss the practice of close reading as well as the ways in which you might incorporate the Archive into your teaching. Speakers Dr…
Exploring the role of songs in supporting young learners’ oral language development Ever wondered to what extent singing songs together is a serious part of pupils’ language learning or just a ‘bit of fun’ in the languages classroom? This session is for teachers who are interested in what the evidence base is for choosing songs as…
Exploring what makes an effective pedagogy for teaching English in the primary school classroom Join Kirstie Hewett from the University of Chichester, Uhzama Jabeen (primary school teachers and Reading and Writing Lead) and Sonia Carvell (primary school teacher) as they explore the key principles of effective pedagogy for teaching English in the primary classroom. Aimed…
Case studies of strategies for promoting independent reading An online session in which two of the authors of the ‘Opening Doors’ series of books, Bob Cox and Leah Crawford, will explore a range of ideas for promoting independent reading arising from a large UK network of primary schools that has developed over the last ten…
Reading fiction for pleasure has well-evidenced cognitive benefits, but we don’t know why. Our project aims to better understand this aspect of fiction. We ask whether reading fiction involves subtle manipulations of our real world causal probabilities. Could this contribute to more flexible thinking in fiction readers? We’ve designed a series of experiments to test…
