Sue Palmer is Up for Reading
Dear friends,
I’m thrilled to add my name to the supporters of Down Syndrome Education
International's Up for Reading
campaign.
Over my ten years as a travelling literacy specialist, I’ve come across
many children with Down syndrome flourishing
in mainstream schools, and know they’re definitely
Up for Reading!
The charity’s work in developing
practice and materials to help them master literacy
skills is valuable not only to the children
themselves but to the wider educational world.
There’s much we can all learn from this remarkable
success story.
Sue Palmer,
Author and literacy
specialist
Find out more about Sue Palmer
Sue Palmer, a former primary headteacher, is an independent writer,
presenter and consultant on primary education, notably literacy.
She has written over 200 books, TV programmes and software packages for
children and teachers, and acted as an independent consultant to the
DfES, National Literacy Trust, Basic Skills Agency, numerous educational
publishers and the BBC.
She is well known to primary teachers around the UK (and, increasingly,
worldwide) for her in-service courses and articles in the educational
press, especially the TES and Child Education.
Her ‘skeleton books’ for teaching cross-curricular writing are used in
over 10,000 UK schools, and Foundations of Literacy, written with early
years expert Ros Bayley has just gone into its third edition.
Sue’s best-selling book Toxic Childhood: how modern life is
damaging our children… and what we can do about it was her first
for a more general audience, and helped spark a national debate about
the nature of contemporary childhood. It was followed by a ‘self-help’
book for parents, Detoxing Childhood, and she is at present
working on 21st Century Boys, for publication in 2009.