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Titles 1

Suggested workshop titles

My courses are always tailor made to suit the children and teachers concerned. These titles are a small selection of previous full day conferences and in-service courses:

  • Reading and Writing Float on a Sea of Talk : The importance of listening and speaking with children 4 - 11yrs

  • The Power of Books: Putting Literature Back into Literacy 4 - 11years

  • Using picture story books as a starting point to develop children’s play, talk, reading and writing 4 - 11yrs

  • How texts teach what children write: Writing from reading with young children 4 - 11yrs

  • “My little book of Riyms” : Teaching Phonics - Onset, Rime And Analogy 3-8yrs
  • Titles 2
  • What a Wonderful World: Bookmaking in the primary Classroom using Songs, Jingles, Poetry and Rap 3- 11yrs

  • Rhymes, Jingles and all that Stuff : Using patterned, predictable texts with emergent readers 3 - 8yrs

  • Creativity and Language: Dancing in The Carnival of the Animals 3 - 8yrs

  • Transition from Nursery and Reception to KS1: Learning Through Play 3 - 8yrs

  • Bob the Builder Goes to School : Linking Children’s Popular Culture, Role Play and Talk with Interactive Writing 3 - 11yrs

  • Have Some Maths with your Story – teaching maths using stories, games and activities 3 - 8 yrs

  • Learning about Science Through Story 3 - 8yrs

  • Critical Literacy and Popular Culture: Children’s popular culture interests 4 - 11yrs

  • David’s Picture Show: Art, Visual Literacy and Talk 4 - 11yrs