Virginia Bower is a Senior Lecturer in Primary Education at Canterbury Christ Church University.  She teaches on both the undergraduate programme and on the full time PGCE English course and is also part of the team who teach the Masters in Language and Literacy.  Virginia is very keen to promote a love of literature in both children and university students and convenes a reading group for undergraduate trainee teachers where children’s literature is shared, studied and enjoyed.  She is currently undertaking a doctoral study focusing on supporting children with English as an additional language.

Topics in this helpful book include: Babies and very early communication; the importance of role-play corners; outdoor learning and literacy; how rhyme and repetition helps to develop literacy; teaching literacy to children who have English as an additional language; literacy and diversity; using picture books to develop literacy; supporting transitions and different approaches to the teaching of phonics and early reading.

• Baby Rooms - Kathy GoouchRole Play Areas EYFS (ages zero to five), Key Stage 1 (ages five to seven) and beyond - Joanne PalmerGetting Outside - Michael GreenSeamless transitions from Foundation Stage to Year 1 (ages 3 to 6) - Karen VincentSupporting learners with English as an additional language - Virginia BowerLiteracy and Diversity - Virginia Bower and Verity HillDiverse Approaches to Language Development - Tracy ParvinRhythm, Rhyme and Repetition - Susan Barrett and Virginia BowerTales and the Oral Tradition - Caroline TancockPicture Books - Roger McDonald′This is How We Teach Reading in Our School′ - Tracy ParvinEmpowering Young Writers - Susan Barrett

Virginia Bower is a Senior Lecturer in Primary Education at Canterbury Christ Church University.  She teaches on both the undergraduate programme and on the full time PGCE English course and is also part of the team who teach the Masters in Language and Literacy.  Virginia is very keen to promote a love of literature in both children and university students and convenes a reading group for undergraduate trainee teachers where children’s literature is shared, studied and enjoyed.  She is currently undertaking a doctoral study focusing on supporting children with English as an additional language.

Topics in this helpful book include: Babies and very early communication; the importance of role-play corners; outdoor learning and literacy; how rhyme and repetition helps to develop literacy; teaching literacy to children who have English as an additional language; literacy and diversity; using picture books to develop literacy; supporting transitions and different approaches to the teaching of phonics and early reading.

• Baby Rooms - Kathy GoouchRole Play Areas EYFS (ages zero to five), Key Stage 1 (ages five to seven) and beyond - Joanne PalmerGetting Outside - Michael GreenSeamless transitions from Foundation Stage to Year 1 (ages 3 to 6) - Karen VincentSupporting learners with English as an additional language - Virginia BowerLiteracy and Diversity - Virginia Bower and Verity HillDiverse Approaches to Language Development - Tracy ParvinRhythm, Rhyme and Repetition - Susan Barrett and Virginia BowerTales and the Oral Tradition - Caroline TancockPicture Books - Roger McDonald′This is How We Teach Reading in Our School′ - Tracy ParvinEmpowering Young Writers - Susan Barrett

Virginia Bower is a Senior Lecturer in Primary Education at Canterbury Christ Church University.  She teaches on both the undergraduate programme and on the full time PGCE English course and is also part of the team who teach the Masters in Language and Literacy.  Virginia is very keen to promote a love of literature in both children and university students and convenes a reading group for undergraduate trainee teachers where children’s literature is shared, studied and enjoyed.  She is currently undertaking a doctoral study focusing on supporting children with English as an additional language.

Topics in this helpful book include: Babies and very early communication; the importance of role-play corners; outdoor learning and literacy; how rhyme and repetition helps to develop literacy; teaching literacy to children who have English as an additional language; literacy and diversity; using picture books to develop literacy; supporting transitions and different approaches to the teaching of phonics and early reading.

• Baby Rooms - Kathy GoouchRole Play Areas EYFS (ages zero to five), Key Stage 1 (ages five to seven) and beyond - Joanne PalmerGetting Outside - Michael GreenSeamless transitions from Foundation Stage to Year 1 (ages 3 to 6) - Karen VincentSupporting learners with English as an additional language - Virginia BowerLiteracy and Diversity - Virginia Bower and Verity HillDiverse Approaches to Language Development - Tracy ParvinRhythm, Rhyme and Repetition - Susan Barrett and Virginia BowerTales and the Oral Tradition - Caroline TancockPicture Books - Roger McDonald′This is How We Teach Reading in Our School′ - Tracy ParvinEmpowering Young Writers - Susan Barrett