Developing Reading for Pleasure: engaging young readers
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  • Introduction and guidance
    • What is a badged course?
    • How to get a badge
  • Introduction
  • 1 What is Reading for Pleasure?
  • 2 Reading for Pleasure and children’s attainment
  • 3 The decline in children Reading for Pleasure
  • 4 Reading for Pleasure in the school curricula
  • 5 Developing Reading for Pleasure pedagogies for all children
  • 6 Pedagogies and classroom practices
  • 7 Beyond attainment: the transformational power of Reading for Pleasure
  • 8 The affective power of reading
  • 9 Promoting equality through diversity in texts
  • 10 This session’s quiz
  • 11 Summary of Session 1
  • Introduction
  • 1 Reading as meaning making
  • 2 What ‘counts’ as reading?
  • 3 Digital texts
  • 4 Children’s texts
  • 5 Reading as a personal process
  • 6 Personal resonance in narrative and other texts
  • 7 Reader motivation
  • 8 The role of talk and book chat
  • 9 Reader networks and relationships
  • 10 Reader identities
  • 11 This session’s quiz
  • 12 Summary of Session 2
  • Introduction
  • 1 Narrative
  • 2 Narrative: understanding the world
  • 3 Exploring possibilities through narrative play
  • 4 Dangers of the single story
  • 5 Promoting equality, diversity and inclusion through children’s literature
  • 6 Addressing sensitive issues and tricky topics
  • 7 Empathy
  • 8 Enhancing agency through narrative texts
  • 9 This session’s quiz
  • 10 Summary of Session 3
  • Introduction
  • 1 The role of educators’ knowledge of children’s texts
  • 2 The affordances and benefits of different children’s texts
  • 3 Broadening your knowledge of texts that reflect children’s realities
  • 4 Teachers’ knowledge of children’s reading practices
  • 5 Finding out about children’s reading practices
  • 6 Using your enhanced knowledge of children’s reading practices
  • 7 This session’s quiz
  • 8 Summary of Session 4
  • Further resources
  • Introduction
  • 1 Reading aloud
  • 2 Building books in common through reading aloud
  • 3 Making read aloud LIST
  • 4 Independent reading: time to read
  • 5 Supporting reading time
  • 6 Informal book talk and recommendations
  • 7 Opportunities for book blether and making recommendations
  • 8 Social reading environments
  • 9 Monitoring the impact of RfP pedagogy
  • 10 This session’s quiz
  • 11 Summary of Session 5
  • Further resources
  • Introduction
  • 1 Characteristics of reading communities
  • 2 Reading Teachers
  • 3 A Reading Teacher in action
  • 4 Reader relationships across the school
  • 5 Reading volunteers
  • 6 The school reading environment
  • 7 The school library
  • 8 Involving authors, illustrators and poets
  • 9 Parents and wider community partners
  • 10 This session’s quiz
  • 11 Summary of Session 6
  • Further resources
  • Introduction
  • 1 The nature of children’s reading at home
  • 2 Choice and agency at home
  • 3 Understanding shared reading in homes
  • 4 Supporting multiliterate children’s reading at home
  • 5 Reading at home: mirroring RfP pedagogies
  • 6 Developing two-way traffic between home and school
  • 7 Parents’ understanding of what counts as reading
    • 7.1 On-screen reading
  • 8 Building home–school reading partnerships
  • 9 Text access
  • 10 This session’s quiz
  • 11 Summary of Session 7
  • Introduction
  • 1 Reluctant readers
    • 1.1 Engaging RfP ‘disadvantaged’ readers
  • 2 Balancing RfP with reading instruction
  • 3 The concept of pleasure
    • 3.1 Different forms of pleasure associated with reading
  • 4 Myth busting
    • 4.1 Myth
    • 1 - Reading for Pleasure is an optional extra in the literacy curriculum
    • 4.2 Myth
    • 2 Reading for Pleasure is a standalone activity
    • 4.3 Myth
    • 3 Girls enjoy reading more than boys
    • 4.4 Myth
    • 4 Technology is killing children’s Reading for Pleasure
  • 4.5 Myth
  • 5 Engaged reading is solitary and silent
    • 4.6 Myth
    • 6 Children’s progress in Reading for Pleasure cannot be measured
    • 4.7 Myth
    • 7 Children must learn to decode before Reading for Pleasure
  • 4.8 Myth
  • 8 Some families just don’t read
  • 5 Applying RfP pedagogy
  • 6 Developing as a Reading Teacher
  • 6.1 Seeing reading and readers in a new light
  • 6.2 Developing your knowledge of children as readers
  • 6.3 Developing your knowledge of children’s texts

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