Chapter 5 Creatively engaging readers in the later primary years

CONCLUSION

If teachers wish children to become lifelong, committed readers then they must bring passion and excitement into the teaching of reading, and teach reading creatively as well as teaching for creativity. Building communities of engaged readers in school will mean creating new spaces for children and teachers to participate in, shared talk about reading and readers’ lives recognition and valuing of diversity in reading preferences and practices, the teaching of reading skills in motivating contexts and more choice in independent reading. In such communities they will be providing imaginative ways into reading and creative activities to explore texts of all kinds.

FURTHER READING
Cremin, T., Mottram, M., Collins, F., Powell, S. and Safford, K. (2014) Building communities of engaged readers: reading for pleasure, London Routledge.
Gamble, N. and Yates, S. (2008) Exploring Children’s Literature (2^nd edition), London: Sage
Hall, L.A. (2012) Rewriting identities: Creating spaces for students and teachers to challenge the norms of what it means to be a reader in school. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 55: 368-373.
Lockwood, M. (2008) Promoting Reading for Pleasure in the Primary School, London: Sage.


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