Dr Nancy Young - Reading, Spelling & Writing Specialist - NZ Tour SPECIAL OFFER

She will be doing a 3-city tour of New Zealand:

• Christchurch/ Otautahi: Mon 20 Jan 2025
• Auckland / Tāmaki Makaurau: Wed 22 Jan 2025
• Palmerston North / Papaioea: Fri 24 Jan 2025

Start the year off learning about the need for differentiated reading and writing instruction to serve ALL your students! Who? What? Why? How?

This is a full day seminar 9am - 3.00pm split into three sessions and will include:

• Nancy’s journey to creating the Ladder of Reading & Writing - the personal events and experiences as a parent and educator that led her to create the infographic and Book - and an in-depth explanation of the key features, research and terminology packed into the infographic.
• An exploration of differentiation in classroom practice, referencing content within the Book ‘Climbing the Ladder of Reading & Writing: Meeting the Needs of ALL Learners’ (2024) and its Study Guide.
• A panel discussion during which Nancy and education experts across New Zealand will address differentiated instruction for literacy. Topics of conversation to include: gaps in the research; classroom practices supporting learners with exceptionalities; and getting the next bit right in NZ from a policy and practice viewpoint.

Morning tea and lunch are included.

Full information here

Early bird tickets are $250+GST (closing 7 December) and include morning tea and lunch. We are also offering 50% discount for Teacher Aides/Learning Support Assistants and are open to providing discounts for group bookings. 

Tickets can be purchased through Humanitix (there is an invoice option as well).

We would like to offer your members a special 30% discount offer using code: SLT30

Dr Nancy Young, Ed.D

Dr. Nancy Young is an independent Canadian educational consultant providing professional development for an international audience. Nancy’s current focus is the WHO, WHAT and WHY of literacy instruction in the early primary grades. Nancy’s emphasis is instruction based on need, particularly differentiation in the form of across grade grouping

(AGG), as a means to more effectively address the wide range of skills in classrooms.

Nancy’s expertise encompasses students who have challenges in learning to read (including students with dyslexia), students who have ADHD, and students who are advanced in reading at an early age (AIR). Long aware of the lack of attention to the educational needs of young students who are advanced/gifted (intellectually), she is a strong advocate for the provision of appropriate educational programming, materials, and experiences for these students.

Nancy’s formal education includes a Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Education (Elementary Education), Master of Education (Special Education), and Doctor of Education (Cognitive Diversity).

Nancy has worked with a wide range of learning needs and ages in schools and community organizations across Canada and internationally. For twenty years, she taught students (alongside their parents/caregivers) in her independent teaching practice. Nancy is a certified teacher and a member of the Scientific Studies of Reading, the National Association for Gifted Children (USA), and the World Council for Gifted & Talented Children.

Nancy is the creator of The Ladder of Reading & Writing, a widely-recognized translational framework visually representing the ease at which children learn to read and write and the instructional implications of that ease. Summarizing the varied and numerous factors that must be considered to effectively serve the wide range of needs, Nancy’s The Ladder of

Reading & Writing makes clear that systematically designed programming for beginning readers will be different from programming that is systematically designed for students with advanced reading skills. (Usage guidelines/permission forms for Nancy’s translational framework can accessed from The Ladder of Reading & Writing page of this website.)

Nancy is the co-editor (with Dr. Jan Hasbrouck) of the new book Climbing THE LADDER OF READING & WRITING: Meeting the Needs of ALL Learners (2024). Looking at literacy through the lens of Nancy’s infographic, this book presents twenty short chapters on topics relating to the wide range of ease in mastering literacy skills and the instructional implications. The chapters are authored by renowned experts in the field.