Reading Teachers
Nurturing Reading for Pleasure
Natalia Kucirkova editor Helen Hendry editor Teresa Cremin editor Lucy Rodriguez Leon editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published:31st Aug '22
Should be back in stock very soon
This paperback is available in another edition too:
- Hardback£135.00(9781032104928)
This engaging text offers primary school educators a principled way forward on their mission to nurture the life-changing habit of reading in childhood. Informed and inspiring, Reading Teachers accessibly 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.
Drawing on a range of research evidence, including studies on reading teachers, dis/engaged boy readers, student teachers as readers and work with over 150 schools developing communities of readers, this book provides an accessible overview of international research alongside a highly practical classroom focus. Combining the insights of academics with 24 reading teachers in co-authored chapters, the book includes:
- Case studies of how practitioners have used research to inform and improve their practice
- ‘In conversation’ dialogues between educators about classroom practice that fosters positive reader identities
- Reflections on the editors own reading habits, practices and histories
- Recommended reading and suggestions of engaging children’s books
Reading Teachers: Nurturing Reading for Pleasure enables practitioners to develop principled practice, helping all children find pleasure and purpose in reading. This book is therefore essential reading for all primary teachers, head teachers, literacy coordinators and trainee teachers.
"Underpinned by the editors’ considerable research and enriched by experienced educators, this book makes a powerful argument that being a Reading Teacher does not just mean being a teacher who reads, but one who reflects on the relationships between their own reading and school reading, models what it’s like to be a reader, and takes time to get to know the readers in their class. This accessible and persuasive book is a must for all beginning and experienced teachers. And of course, it is a great read."
Professor Cathy Burnett, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
"Reading Teachers is a brilliant book that will fan the flames of the ‘reading fire’ and help schools nurture passionate, engaged and motivated readers."
Jon Biddle, Teacher and English Leader
"This highly accessible book will further practitioners’ understanding of effective approaches for encouraging reading for pleasure, including what it really means to be a Reading Teacher and why that is so important. The art of providing meaningful opportunities for children to become engaged, volitional readers is brought to life through real-world case-studies that cannot fail to inspire teachers and librarians whatever their school, context or role."
Fiona Evans, Director of School Programmes, National Literacy Trust
"Underpinned by the editors’ considerable research and enriched by experienced educators, this book makes a powerful argument that being a Reading Teacher does not just mean being a teacher who reads, but one who reflects on the relationships between their own reading and school reading, models what it’s like to be a reader, and takes time to get to know the readers in their class. This accessible and persuasive book is a must for all beginning and experienced teachers. And of course, it is a great read."
Professor Cathy Burnett, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
"Reading Teachers is a brilliant book that will fan the flames of the ‘reading fire’ and help schools nurture passionate, engaged and motivated readers."
Jon Biddle, Teacher and English Leader
"This highly accessible book will further practitioners’ understanding of effective approaches for encouraging reading for pleasure, including what it really means to be a Reading Teacher and why that is so important. The art of providing meaningful opportunities for children to become engaged, volitional readers is brought to life through real-world case-studies that cannot fail to inspire teachers and librarians whatever their school, context or role."
Fiona Evans, Director of School Programmes, National Literacy Trust
ISBN: 9781032105024
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 440g
206 pages