The Campaign for Learning 'Story Power' Conference

I’m so exited to have been invited to run a session talking about the power of reading together and discussing my upcoming book “Unplugged Tots.”

I will be spending the day learning how storytelling, sharing stories and reading can inform and enrich family learning practice, activities and programmes by exploring themes such as:

• boosting well-being and relationships by reading together for pleasure
• optimising learning and engagement by reading together
• learning maths, science or other subjects through storytelling
• diffusing difficult situations or talking about challenging topics through storytelling
• dialogic learning and co-creating stories
• using props and multisensory resources in story building
• identity and culture formation
• what do stories do: storytelling and cognition

I’ll be with the following speakers and workshop leaders:

Keynote: Cally Poplak, MD, HarperCollins Publishers Children's Books and Farshore on 'The power of reading and being read to'

Speakers:
Katie Bareham, Doorstep Library
Nicola Wallis, The Fitzwilliam Museum
Olivia Richards, The Story Project
Lucy Webber, The Story Museum and Liz Fraser-Betts, The Story Exchange
Nicola Pomery and Mariam de Haan, The British Library
Arwenna Davis and Camilla Reid, BookTrust
Gem Smith, TAKE A PART CIO

Workshops from:
Jeszemma Howl, The Fatherhood Institute
Dr Sabine Little, The University of Sheffield
usifu jalloh, Connection with Wonder
Vanessa Woolf, Connection with Wonder
Emma Leeson, SAPERE
Dr Alastair Daniel, The Story Tent, University of Roehampton
Anna Harriott, Stories in the Dust and Ian Williams, University of Southampton

I can't wait to soak up the brilliance and meet some of the wonderful people at the National Centre for Family Learning in real life!