Reading Aloud Symposium

Island Voices will be involved in some “remote outreach” work next month, when Gordon Wells speaks at this symposium at the UCL Institute of Education in London. This kind invitation follows the visit of Sam Duncan, the co-ordinator of the Reading Aloud in Britain Today project, to the Hebrides as part of her research work.

The notice below gives details of all speakers and how to book a place.

(There is an option of registering on a waiting list in the event of all places being taken).

 

Saturday 17^th November 2018

The Reading Aloud in Britain Today (RABiT) Symposium

Everyday Reading: Explorations of Literacy and Oracy

 

Please join us at the UCL Institute of Education (London) for a day of presentations and discussion examining forms of reading aloud, everyday reading and relationships between literacy and oracy, in and out of the classroom.

We are delighted to welcome:

Andrey Rosowsky (University of Sheffield) Heavenly Reading – the oral/aural nature of reading sacred texts

Catherine Sadler (University of Hull) Reading aloud and poetry

Gordon Wells (Co-ordinator of the Island Voices/Guthan nan Eilean online community project) Reading Island Voices: Issues around the primacy of speech and the privileging of literacy, from a Hebridean viewpoint.

Jenny Hartley (Emeritus Professor Roehampton University and co-founder of Prison Reading Groups) Twenty Years Behind Bars: Reading Aloud in Prison Reading Groups

Jo Westbrook, Julia Sutherland & Jane Oakhill (University of Sussex) Faster, immersive reading of whole texts

Kevin Harvey (School of English, the University of Nottingham) & Susan Jones (School of Education, the University of Nottingham) Whose meaning is it anyway? The communal construction of meaning in shared reading groups

Lionel Warner (University of Reading) Reading Aloud in the high school: why do they keep doing it?

Maxine Burton (freelance scholar) Reading Aloud in 19th century England: some evidence from Victorian fiction

Russell Aldersson (City Literary Institute) Re-thinking “aloud” in the context of sign language users 

Sue Walters (UCL Institute of Education) Reading as recitation in faith school settings:  Issues for learning and teaching

Victoria Watkins (UCL Institute of Education) Reading Year 7 and Year 12 Reading Partnerships

And an update from the Reading Aloud in Britain Today (RABiT) project.

Please come along and join the discussion. The day will start at 1030am and close at 5pm. Lunch and refreshments provided. This day is free but places are limited. Please register using this link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rabit-symposium-tickets-50262193574 If the event is showing up as full, please email Sam on sam.duncan@ucl.ac.uk to join a waiting list.

Looking forward to seeing you there!