Literacy Learning and Literacy Difficulties University College London (UCL)

This masters degree will:

• impart a deeper understanding of the processes involved in learning to read, write and spell, the sources of difficulties, and approaches to intervention
• enable you to read research critically and to design and conduct your own small-scale research.

This masters degree provides the opportunity to:

• draw on the strengths of a team with research expertise in literacy and experience in evaluating early literacy interventions
• investigate literacy acquisition and problems in depth, covering reading, writing and spelling.

Literacy consultants, advisers and coordinators; special educational needs coordinators (SENCOs); and teachers (including newly qualified teachers) wishing to improve their understanding of literacy learning. The MA will be particularly useful for those working in Key Stages 1 and 2, but those working with older children, including in secondary schools and the post-compulsory sector, may also apply.

A good honours degree in a relevant subject or the equivalent.

• Research methods in literacy
• Literacy development.

• Literacy practice in writing and comprehension
• Reading and spelling difficulties
• Teaching children in Reading Recovery (for Reading Recovery teachers)
• Reading Recovery in primary literacy leadership (for Reading Recovery teachers).

By coursework assignments and a 20,000-word dissertation or 10,000-word report.

Face-to-face evening sessions.

Graduates of this masters degree are currently working as:

• literacy coordinators and special educational needs coordinators
• literacy advisers and consultants
• deputy headteachers, principals and headteachers
• managers of literacy difficulties in secondary schools and in post-compulsory education.

• Literacy Development
• Reading and Spelling Difficulties
• Research Methods in Literacy

Entry requirements for this course

Contact University College London (UCL) to find course entry requirements.

View foundation and pathway programmes to help you meet academic and language entry requirements.