Presenter - Dr Karen Smith-Lock

This 1-day Continuing Professional Development (CPD) event is intended for anyone involved in the teaching of reading or spelling, including primary school teachers, school administrators, speech language therapists and final year students currently studying these degrees.

Following this event participants will:

• Understand the importance of accurate and automatic word decoding and spelling for reading comprehension and written expression
• Understand how to teach word reading and spelling with systematic phonics instruction
• Understand how to teach phonemic awareness and explicitly link it to word reading and spelling
• Understand how to differentiate systematic phonics teaching to a diverse classroom