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Encouraging book talk in the school library free course icon level 1: introductory icon

Education & Development

Encouraging book talk in the school library

As adults we sometimes struggle to justify our feelings about particular books, but children are quite clear about what they like and don't like. It is possible to get children to discuss why they liked or did not like particular books and to encourage them to think more deeply about the books they've read. This free course, Encouraging book ...

Free course
4 hrs
Reading communities video icon

Education & Development

Reading communities

What are the barriers and motivations for shared reading in families? What's the importance of building reciprocal and interactive reading communities? These videos explore

Video
30 mins
Reading communities: why, what and how? article icon

Education & Development

Reading communities: why, what and how?

In this article, Professor Teresa Cremin considers the long term aim of developing readers for life and challenges us to consider effective strategies and practices to genuinely achieve this.

Article
10 mins
Reading for pleasure: just window dressing? article icon

Education & Development

Reading for pleasure: just window dressing?

In this article, Professor Teresa Cremin explores how talking about texts, their possible meanings and interpretations should be placed at the very heart of the reading curriculum

Article
10 mins
Reading: re-asserting the potency of the personal article icon

Education & Development

Reading: re-asserting the potency of the personal

In this article, Professor Teresa Cremin considers how discovering children’s intrinsic motivation as readers can build reciprocal communities of readers.

Article
10 mins
Teaching reading: what are our long term goals? article icon

Education & Development

Teaching reading: what are our long term goals?

Teresa Cremin, Professor of Literacy in Education at The Open University examinines teachers’ perceptions and practices, as well as children’s own experiences, of reading pedagogy.

Article
10 mins
Developing Reading for Pleasure: engaging young readers free course icon level 2: intermediate icon Badge icon

Education & Development

Developing Reading for Pleasure: engaging young readers

It is widely recognised that supporting children to become capable and engaged readers plays an important role in their future success. Reading empowers; it facilitates education and employment, and it enriches one’s personal life and growth. Learning to read is therefore a key goal of primary or elementary education, and high-quality literacy ...

Free course
24 hrs
Reading for pleasure: exploring the concept article icon

Education & Development

Reading for pleasure: exploring the concept

Defined by the International Literary Association (ILA, 2018) as the opportunity to read freely, voluntarily, and with delight, reading for pleasure does not include response sheets or tests – it is choice-led reading primarily for enjoyment.

Article
5 mins
Reading and motivation: focusing on disengaged readers article icon

Education & Development

Reading and motivation: focusing on disengaged readers

To help students who lack motivation to read, argues Teresa Cremin, teachers need to aim to make the experience of reading for pleasure ‘authentic, real, and personally and socially relevant to each young reader’.

Article
5 mins
Charting new reading research directions article icon

Education & Development

Charting new reading research directions

The literacy researcher exploring the hidden senses involved in children’s reading, Natalia Kucirkova, is reconceptualising reading as a full-body experience. This interview explains more...

Article
5 mins
Poetry prescription activity icon

History & The Arts

Poetry prescription

Feeling loving, adventurous or scared? Poetry Prescription will find you the perfect poem to reflect your mood. 

Activity
5 mins
Social media - fake news, filter bubbles and sharing wisely! video icon

Education & Development

Social media - fake news, filter bubbles and sharing wisely!

Meet Frank and travel with him on his adventures through the (sometimes foggy) realms of social media. Explore sharing, filter bubbles and fake news- maybe you can learn from Frank's mistakes with the help of Josie Long.

Video
10 mins