Promoting reading across transition: What do we know and what can we do?

Join the Centre for Literacy and Social Justice for a seminar on reading engagement with school pupils

How can we promote reading engagement in primary and secondary students? We will discuss the crucial role of reading proficiency and how to support this. Beyond this, we need to work closely with teachers and students to develop a better understanding of how to encourage volitional reading.

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The speakers

Professor Jessie Ricketts is based in the Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London and directs the Language and Reading Acquisition (LARA) research group. Jessie researches language and literacy in children, young people and adults. She is particularly interested in how reading benefits children’s learning and language. Jessie works closely with teachers, educational charities and policy makers to conduct research and consider its implications for education.

Dr. Laura Shapiro is based at the Institute for Health and Neurodevelopment at Aston University and her core expertise is longitudinal research investigating the causes and consequences of language and literacy development using statistical causal modelling. Laura is interested in how experiences of reading throughout school influence young people’s lifelong reading habits. Laura’s research crosses developmental, health and educational psychology and is shaped both by fundamental scientific questions and by the concerns of practitioners and policy makers.

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Linkedin: Jessie Ricketts

Website: Psychology Research