Event Details

Day 1: 19 February 2024
Start time: 13:00
End time: 16:00

Venue: Online

This online course is ideal for English Leaders, Early Years and Key Stage 1 Teachers and Teaching Assistants who either wish to implement new approaches within their setting, or who wish to improve and develop their current strategies.

We will explore how our pedagogical approach to the teaching of early language comprehension is fundamentally different to the teaching of phonics, and develop our understanding of practical strategies so that we can effectively implement these approaches in the classroom.

During this course participants will update their knowledge or learn about:

• The reading skills and how to make these explicit and meaningful for younger children
• Identifying the links between the ELG and KS1 reading curriculum, ensuring progression in the teaching of reading comprehension
• Questioning techniques
• Pupil’s texts – the importance of matching books to reading ability
• Reading to the child – the importance of children knowing/hearing texts beyond their own reading ability
• Speaking and listening and how this influences a child’s understanding of text
• Extending and developing vocabulary

“A very informative session with a lot of practical ideas to use in classrooms.” Fareedah Razzaq, Assistant Head Teacher, Cromwell Junior and Infant School

For more information contact us here.

About The Adviser

Emma Mudge - Adviser, Services For Education

Emma Mudge has over 20 years of experience working in primary education. Throughout this time, she has become a leader in a wide variety of areas throughout the school including Assessment, Teaching and Learning, Curriculum Management and Lead DSL, to name but a few. As Deputy Head Teacher and Acting Head Teacher, she has been at the forefront of school leadership and improvement.

During her role as English leader, she successfully introduced new approaches which significantly raised attainment. This led her to be approached to support other English coordinators across Birmingham, make presentations to school leaders and become a member of a small group of specialist teachers and leaders, tasked with improving the reading attainment in a number of schools across the city.

Emma now works as the Educational Adviser for English at Services for Education, sharing her experience and knowledge of working in primary schools to continually promote and improve the standard of teaching and learning in English, and in school improvement.