Chiara Sportelli is seconded to RIC Literacy from her position as Principal Teacher at Bannockburn Primary School, Stirling. She has promoted Literacy in the primary school through creative practices such as video conferencing, green screen and digital technologies and has recently undertaken learning an additional language and critically analysing 1+2 pedagogy through the Open University TELT programme which aims to increase and improve language provision in primary schools.  In her role with the RIC she will initially be focussing on paired reading, developing Literacy through play and creating a primary practitioners Literacy network via the Facebook group ‘FVWL RIC Literacy Primary Practitioners.’