Reading Teachers: Nurturing Reading for Pleasure

ISBN-13: 9781032104928 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 224 str.

Teresa Cremin; Helen Hendry; Lucy Rodriguez Leon

Opis

This text offers primary school educators a principled way forward on their mission to nurture the life-changing habit of reading in childhood. It demonstrates how teachers who are motivated, engaged, and reflective readers themselves, can develop new understandings of reading for pleasure and make a difference to young learners.

Spis treści

Introduction: Reading Teachers, Reader Identity, Section One: Texts and Readers, 1. Children’s literature and other texts, 2. Digital books enriching literacy lives, 3. Exploring gender and reading for pleasure, 4. Supporting readers’ social motivation Reading Practices, Section Two: Reading for Pleasure Pedagogy, 5. Reading aloud, 6. Informal book talk and reader recommendations, 7. Time to read, 8. Social reading environments Readers’ Rights, Section Three: Reading Communities, 9. Reading Headteachers, 10. Reading Librarians and libraries, 11. Parental and community involvement, 12. Celebrating reading Reading Places, Conclusion: Reading Teachers of Tomorrow