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Meet the Team at Get Reading Right
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Jo-Anne Dooner - Curriculum Director & Literacy Consultant
A teacher for over 20 years, Jo-Anne has taught in Australia, Indonesia, Japan and Hong Kong 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 programs. She co-authored Get Reading Right’s best selling teaching program: The Synthetic Phonics Toolkit and early intervention program: The Power Pack.
Jo-Anne currently works with National Partnership schools in Sydney improving literacy; from phonics to comprehension. She is known for her “teacher friendly, no nonsense approach” which inspires teachers to get up and do it!
Jo-Anne is regularly featured in the Australian media: Teacher Magazine, The Today Show and 2UE to name a few.
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Michael Wood - Director & Special Needs Consultant
An educational psychologist for over 30 years Michael is the co-founder of Get Reading Right and consults with schools on literacy and children with special needs. 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.
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Anne Ross - Literacy Consultant
Anne is a New Zealand trained teacher and Phono-Graphix reading therapist. She has over 30 years teaching experience; with 12 in Hong Kong and another 2 teaching EAL in Shanghai. Anne consultants and trains in all aspects of literacy with schools in the UK, Philippines, Australia, China and Hong Kong.
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Rachel Tabram - Literacy Consultant
Based in the UK, Rachel is Deputy-Principal of Castle Primary School, Bristol. She has taught for over eleven years with four of those years based in a Hong Kong international school.
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 program.
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Liz Chapman - Literacy Consultant
With over twenty-five years teaching experience as a Primary Teacher, Liz has a Masters Degree in Special Education and extensive experience as a Special Education Consultant and tutor. After working as a Reading Recovery teacher she knew only too well about the detrimental effect not learning to read had.
After extensive research into the most effective methods to teach early reading and spelling, Liz discovered synthetic phonics and trialled it with her Prep class. She was astonished by the improvements it made.
Liz now works with schools in Victoria getting them going with synthetic phonics.
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Katherine Wood - Managing Director
Katherine manages the Australia and Asia office – working with schools to help them get started with synthetic phonics. She also manages the development of the Get Reading Right products from initial idea and research, through to production. |
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Shirley Houston - Literacy Consultant
Shirley has a Masters degree in Special Education and has been teaching children and training teachers in Australia for 30 years. Always on the lookout for the most effective reading strategies and programs, she came across Get Reading Right in 2010. She implemented it in her work with students in Year 1 and Year 2 who had struggled to make progress in literacy using other programs. The program design captured the interest of students who had experienced failure for years. This resulted in reading levels that exceeded age expectations and those of peers not undertaking the program.
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