David Wray, Professor of Literacy Education, University of Warwick PDF Print E-mail

#David Wray taught in primary schools for 10 years and is currently Professor of Literacy Education at the University of Warwick. He has published over 30 books on aspects of literacy teaching and is best known for his work on developing teaching strategies to help pupils access the curriculum through literacy. This has resulted in such innovations as the Extending Interactions with Texts (EXIT) model to guide the teaching of reading to learn, and writing frames to help with the writing of factual text types. His work has been made an integral part of the National Literacy Strategy at both primary and secondary levels. He has acted as consultant to a number of electronic learning projects for groups such as Dorling Kindersley and the Guardian Newspaper. He also jointly wrote the Easiteach Literacy content pack for Research Machines.

 

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