Beschreibung:
Teresa Cremin is Professor of Education (Literacy), The Open University, UK.
Reading for pleasure urgently requires a higher profile to raise attainment and increase children¿s engagement as self-motivated and socially interactive readers. Building Communities of Engaged Readers provides an inspiring and accessible account of a collaborative research and development project that achieved these goals.
1. Introduction : Setting the context 2. Reading for pleasure and reader engagement: Reviewing the research 3. The UKLA Projects: Teachers as Readers and Building Communities of Readers 4. Teachers¿ knowledge and use of children¿s literature 5. Enhancing teachers¿ knowledge of children¿s literature and other texts 6. Reading Teachers: Teachers who read and readers who teach 7. A Reading for Pleasure Pedagogy 8. Reader relationships within and beyond school 9. Influencing children¿s attitudes, motivation and achievements as readers 10. Conclusion: Building communities of engaged readers