Early years and KS1 - Clare Wood - IRC22

Early years and KS1 education. Behaviours, skills and resources that underpin reading success. Clare Wood: Professor Wood joined Nottingham Trent University in May 2017. Prior to that she was Executive Director of the Centre for Psychology, Behaviour and Achievement at Coventry University. She primarily teaches developmental and educational psychology and has been awarded the British Psychology Society’s Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Psychology. Her research interests over the last 20 years include the early identification and remediation of literacy difficulties in children, the relationships between spoken and written language skills, and the educational potential of technology. Her work on the impact of text messaging on literacy skills received widespread attention in the international media. She is currently exploring the impact of digital text exposure in the early years on literacy-related outcomes in children.