We are Julie Green and Dr Janice Belgrave, two Resource Teachers of Literacy (RTLit) from Christchurch, New Zealand.
Dr Janice Belgrave
Having completed a PhD in Education in 2016, Janice now works as a Resource Teacher of Literacy in the Eastern suburbs of Christchurch, New Zealand. In this role, she provides professional development for Teachers and Teacher Aides, as well as working with small groups of children who are struggling to attain age appropriate literacy skills. She is passionate about early literacy attainment and a strong advocate for a Structured Literacy Approach for all children in all schools.
Janice has previously worked as a lecturer at the University of Canterbury, lecturing in pre service teacher education/literacy, and as an Associate Professor At Sonoda Womens University in Japan. She has presented her research at conferences around the world including Canada, USA, UK and Australia.
Publications and Theses
Doctoral Thesis: The Impact of Dialectal Awareness on a Phoneme Based Early Literacy Intervention.
Masters Thesis: The Characteristics of Children who are Referred On from Reading Recovery
Belgrave, J., Everatt, J. & Fletcher, J. (2014). Dialectical awareness in early literacy interventions. Speech, Language and Hearing, 17(1), 15-24.
Julie Green
After completing the Resource teacher of literacy training in 2014, Julie worked in the Eastern suburbs of Christchurch and now the rural Hurunui area of North Canterbury.
She works within schools providing resources and professional development for teachers, who refer struggling readers to the RTLit service. Julie has worked in the literacy field for a large part of her teaching career and is a Structured literacy proponent after seeing the alternatives fail too often.
Julie is a trained BSLA facilitator and is currently completing her study with IMSLE. She enjoys researching evidence- based approaches and helping teachers and children to use effective resources which align with the Science of Reading.