St Mary’s University School of Education is delighted to offer a brand new CPD course for teachers in Key Stage 2 with a focus on how wordless picturebooks might be used to develop pupils' comprehension and visual literacy.
Ensuring children are globally visually literate is important in our increasingly diverse and visual contemporary world. This course offers you the opportunity to develop your use of wordless picturebooks in the Key Stage 2 classroom through an exploration of current pedagogy and its implementation in schools. The course will be delivered by our primary English team, with expertise in curriculum pedagogy and this age phase.
Whilst the reading for pleasure agenda has become established within schools, linking wordless picturebooks to reading comprehension and visual literacy skills is much less so, and this course will offer practitioners the opportunity to develop their knowledge, skills, and understanding of this whilst providing examples for school practice.
The School of Education offers longstanding excellence in professional learning, which is affirmed by our reputation for education degrees, active research centres, and 'outstanding' delivery of initial teacher education.
Date and time
This course will be delivered in one online session on:
- Monday 12th May 2025 4pm to 6pm.
Location
The course is delivered online using Teams.
Price
The full course cost is £100.
Content
This course will explore how wordless picturebooks can be used to develop children as readers, and is particularly supportive of bilingual and multilingual children. The course draws on empirical and contemporary research in the field, as well as the research of two doctoral students who are researching children’s voice and visual literacy.
Through completing this short course, you will:
- develop knowledge and understanding of the power and importance of wordless picturebooks to develop children’s comprehension and visual literacy skills
- use translanguaging to support bilingual and multilingual learners learning to read wordless picturebooks
- take away a range of impactful strategies and techniques to implement in class or with individual children.
Requirements
To enrol on this short course, you must:
- be a primary school teacher or professional working in this age phase.
Award
This short course is accredited by CPD UK. Upon successful completion of the course, you will receive a certificate of attendance from St Mary’s University.
For more information about this course please contact the Short Courses Team: