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Meet the Team at Get Reading Right

 

Jo-Anne Dooner

Jo-Anne Dooner


A teacher for over 20 years, Jo-Anne has taught across the PYP, the National Curriculum of England and Wales and the state mandated curriculums of Australia. Having worked as a Deputy-Principal and a Literacy Coordinator she has a deep understanding of how to lead literacy development as well as how to teach it.

 

Jo-Anne is the co-founder of Get Reading Right and devised Get Right’s synthetic phonics, comprehension, guided reading and spelling programmes. She co-authored Get Reading Right’s best selling teaching programme: The Synthetic Phonics Toolkit and early intervention programme: The Power Pack.

 

Jo-Anne currently trains teachers right across the globe and is known for her “teacher friendly, no nonsense approach” which inspires teachers to get up and do it!

 
 Michael Wood

Michael Wood

 

An Educational Psychologist with over 30 years experience, Michael is the co-founder of Get Reading Right and consults with schools on literacy and children with special needs. He has practised in Liverpool and York where he was the Senior Psychologist for North Yorkshire. He is delighted with the spread of synthetic phonics and the benefits that it brings to all children but especially to those groups who have tended to find literacy acquisition to be difficult.

 
 Rachel Tabram

Rachel Tabram


Rachel is Deputy-Principal of Castle Primary School, Bristol and a teacher of over eleven years.


Rachel co-authored the Synthetic Phonics Toolkit, and drew her experiences from teaching synthetic phonics day-to-day in the classroom and as Individual Needs Coordinator. Rachel is also the co-author of The Power Pack Get Reading Right’s synthetic phonics early intervention programme.

 
Naomi Wood
 
Naomi is our writer for the series 2 and 3 decodable stories. As well as writing and editing Get Reading Right's stories, Naomi is the Editor for the Tesco Magazine Kid's Book Club, and has written a book for adults called The Godless Boys (Picador, 2011). Her favourite story for Get Reading Right is Baby Fay.


 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                              

 

 

 

 

 
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