ASPE Conference: Reading – Multiple Perspectives

• Emeritus Professor Greg Brooks
  (University of Sheffield)
  The linguistic base of initial reading and
  spelling in English;
• Emerita Professor Rhona Stainthorp
  (University of Reading)
  Overview of evidence from psychological
  research: perspectives on the processes
  involved in word reading;
• Professor Gemma Moss
  (UCL)
  Understanding reading as a socially situated
  practice;
• Dr Sinéad Harmey
  (UCL)
  Perspectives on dealing with reading difficulties;

• Dr Victoria de Rijke
  (Middlesex University London)
  The contribution that children’s literature has
  made to reading;
• Professor Jeff Bezemer
  (UCL)
  A critical review of how social semiotics has
  contributed to the study of reading;

…and through virtual link:

• Dr Anthony Wilson
  (University of Exeter)
  Poetry for Children