Chris Such (author, teacher, trainer) has written an accessible and informative book on reading titled ‘The Art and Science of Teaching Primary Reading’, has lots of valuable information on his website: https://primarycolour.home.blog/, and he works for
Ambition Institute designing the National Professional Qualification course for Leading Literacy.
Jonathan Solity is the Director of Optima Psychology https://optimapsychology.com/ and an Honorary Lecturer at University College London. He was formerly an assistant professor in educational psychology at the University of Warwick. He has researched the
most effective ways of teaching reading and found that systematic synthetic phonics is best taught through real books rather than decodable texts. He has written seven books and published over 50 articles on his research, instructional psychology, special
education & behaviour management. His most recent academic papers include: (i) a detailed analysis of the evidence underpinning current government policy on teaching reading; (ii) a discussion of how to resolve the reading wars; (iii) the limitations of the
Phonics Screening Check and (iv) a description of how government policy causes reading difficulties.
This conference should be booked via
www.skills4bradford.co.uk