Read to Succeed: Strategies to Engage Children and Young People in Reading for Pleasure (Facet Publications

by Joy Court

Concern about children's reading is an international issue highlighted by continuing OECD research. Government actions such as the priority given to reading in the review of the National Curriculum reflect current UK concern. Reading is an essential life skill not only for an individual's development and life chances but for social cohesion and a developed democracy. In an era of public spending cuts it is important to reflect upon the impact that libraries can have in growing readers for the future.

This much-needed book provides valuable evidence of successes so far both nationally and internationally, and offers ideas for future development as well as inspiration for current practice. An edited collection contributed by expert practitioners, it covers all aspects of promoting reading to and with children and young people from birth right through to teenage years, including the following key the importance of Bookstart how children begin to read
creating young readers
literacy, libraries and literature in New Zealandthe Summer Challenge in libraries
Stockport does Book Idol
restoring reading to the classroom
promoting excellence - shadowing the CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway medals
local book awards
the sport of reading
libraries and partnerships
the hard to reach reader in the 21st century
creative reading

Offering future scoping for managers and aiming to inspire partnership and cooperation, this will be invaluable reading for practitioners and students of librarianship in both the public and school sectors. It will also be of great interest to all teachers, consultants and educators concerned with literacy and reading, and to policy makers in both the school and library sectors. Concern about children's reading is an international issue highlighted by continuing OECD research. Government actions such as the priority given to reading in the review of the National Curriculum reflect current UK concern. Reading is an essential life skill not only for an individual's development and life chances but for social cohesion and a developed democracy. In an era of public spending cuts it is important to reflect upon the impact that libraries can have in growing readers for the future. This much-needed book provides valuable evidence of successes so far both nationally and internationally, and offers ideas for future development as well as inspiration for current practice. An edited collection contributed by expert practitioners, it covers all aspects of promoting reading to and with children and young people from birth right through to teenage years, including the following key - the importance of Bookstart
- how children begin to read
- creating young readers
- literacy, libraries and literature in New Zealand
- the Summer Challenge in libraries
- Stockport does Book Idol
- restoring reading to the classroom
- promoting excellence - shadowing the CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway medals
- local book awards
- the sport of reading
- libraries and partnerships
- the hard to reach reader in the 21st century
- creative reading. Offering future scoping for managers and aiming to inspire partnership and cooperation, this will be invaluable reading for practitioners and students of librarianship in both the public and school sectors. It will also be of great interest to all teachers, consultants and educators concerned with literacy and reading, and to policy makers in both the school and library sectors.

288 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2011

Reviews

[Hanna · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was interesting book. There were some differences between the articles on how clear they were, but most of them were well and tightly written and they told clearly on what had been done and how it succeeded.

I read this book for my thesis and I did get something out of it for my work.

Linguistically the book was quite easy to read, although those scholarly writings were a bit difficult. But I have definitely improved my reading in English even in scholarly publications.

There were good ideas on how to increase the reading pleasure among children. I'll have to remember some of them when in work. Because of the book, I also got little bit exited about working with youths. I would like to learn more about youths and learn how to get along with them. I was thinking even if I should take some youth leader educations at some day...