Emerging Literacy

Following delivery of this session as a workshop at Annual Conference, we are responding to hugely positive member feedback by offering the session online to enable attendance by those who were unable to get to our in-person event.

 A teacher, eager to ‘get it right for every child’ in their classroom sat down with an educational psychologist, occupational therapist, and speech and language therapist and asked the following question:

Why, despite using a tried and tested commercial literacy programme, are some children not making the promised progress?

10 years on, following research in classrooms with thousands of children and practitioners in Scotland, the soon to be published, ‘Emerging Literacy: Unlocking Instruction for Every Child’ not only answers this question, but shares what you can do to simultaneously raise attainment for all and tackle the poverty related attainment gap.

Delivered by the book’s authors, James Cook and James McTaggart, this session is the springboard for improving literacy in your school.

This session is for AHDS members only and is free to attend. This will take place from 4 - 5pm on 24th April.

24 April 2025 - Online - MS Teams