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Reading Solutions UK - home of the award-winning, online literacy programme Reading Plus - invites you to join their first ever Great North Reading Conference 2021. Aimed at senior leaders, English literacy leads and children in primary education, the free, online conference will be held over three days and boasts a series of content packed webinars led by award-winning authors and experts in literacy and education. Michael Walker, director at Reading Solutions UK, told us: “The Great North Reading Conference is an opportunity to bring together educators in a positive way that isn’t about catch-up, remote learning or Covid, it’s simply to celebrate and showcase what schools in the North-East are doing around reading and promoting reading for pleasure.