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Developing A Reading School

Developing A Reading School. LLT Network Training Spring 2006. Aims . To consider the findings of recent reports/studies regarding reading for pleasure To consider a range of practical ideas and strategies for promoting an enjoyment of reading within your school

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Developing A Reading School

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  1. Developing A Reading School LLT Network Training Spring 2006

  2. Aims • To consider the findings of recent reports/studies regarding reading for pleasure • To consider a range of practical ideas and strategies for promoting an enjoyment of reading within your school • To be given guidance on how to audit current provision/practice

  3. Activity: True or False?

  4. A Right Good Read… • Activity - Discuss the following: How did you first get interested in reading? Make a list of what you enjoy reading now?

  5. What I Enjoy Reading • Magazines • Novels • Humourous – rom/com • Harry Potter • Children’s – mystery/adventure • Classics • Recipe Books • Gardening • Interior Design

  6. Readers Enjoy Their Literacy ‘We all make choices about what we read. Those choices do not make us better or worse than each other – just readers with different preferences. Pupils need to feel their choices are respected and their broad range of literacies are valued.’ Reading Connects

  7. ‘Reading has always been seen as a source of considerable pleasure for many. This is important but perhaps forgotten by some schools in their pursuit of higher test results that will improve their position in the league tables. You will find no pleasure in books if you cannot read, but it is equally possible to be able to read and derive little pleasure.’ (Extract from David Bell’s speech, A Good Read, World Book Day, March 2005)

  8. The Reading Environment • Activity: What do you think creates a positive, exciting reading environment?

  9. ‘The best reading environment is one where there is an expectation of pleasure in reading, where there is excitement in talking about books and enjoyment in being read to.’ • ‘…The librarian who makes a cupboard into a treasure trove; the teacher who transforms a classroom into a wonderland by reading aloud to his/her class; and all those teachers and librarians who take tattered, old books from the wobbly shelves and say “Wow! This must be a good book, so many other readers have enjoyed it. It must be worth reading.” (Reading Connects: Welcome to the Creating a Reading Culture Handbook)

  10. Activity Discuss any whole school approaches which are currently in place to develop enjoyment, enthusiasm and wider reading.

  11. Developing a Whole School Reading Environment • High visibility reading • Reading foyer visitors • Take books to them • Reading Assemblies • ICT • Parents’ Room • Lunch Tales • Newsletter

  12. Developing Cross-Curricular Reading Links • Subject Leader Libraries/Boxes • Art and Design • DT • Humanities • ICT • Music • Numeracy • PE • PSHE/Citizenship • Science

  13. Activity • Sort the statements into • Things you are doing already (1) • Things you could do immediately (2) • Things you could develop in the future (3)

  14. Developing a Class Reading Culture • Book Corner • Start the Week • Reading Interview • Mini- Assemblies • Circle Time Reading • Healthy Reading

  15. Buddying • Working on children’s self-esteem and reading in parallel has definite potential • Where reading partners are available and can be given appropriate training and support, partnership approaches can be very effective (Greg Brooks: ‘What Works for Children with Literacy Difficulties?’ – research for DfES)

  16. Link to National Events • Activity: Look at the list of national events. Are there any to which you currently link? Take one and brainstorm ideas of what you might do.

  17. Using the Library • Develop the school library • Build links with public library events

  18. Novel as a Theme • Reading Diet Diary • Parental Involvement

  19. Some Questions to Consider • See Getting the Whole School Reading – Where are we now?

  20. Useful Websites and References • Reading for Purpose and Pleasure: An evaluation of the teaching of reading in primary schools HMI 2393 • www.readingconnects.org.uk • www.rif.org.uk • Improve your library: a self-evaluation process for primary schools –www.teachernet.gov.uk/teachingandlearning/resourcematerials/schoollibraries/ • Lancashire library service –www.lancashire.gov.uk/libraries/services/schools

  21. Hometime!

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