We can use preexisting concepts (trailers) or techniques and narratives (lapbooks, video games) to promote reading for pleasure in a multiliteracy context, trying to connect with younger generations that live in a more audiovisual world than previous ones.

Two examples of how to implement book talks. One was a booktalk with pre-service and in-service teachers. The other was about a book talk around a short story, discussed in the home and consumer studies to teach gender equality.

In a way, this session started with a rather sad premise: that poetry is the genre teachers and students like the least. However, the presentations paved the way for the future. They showcased different ways to revive interest in poetry, including selecting different types of poems and using a website that introduces users to the world of poetry in new and innovative ways.

We discussed the opportunities of connecting literature with STEM subjects and the potential use of picturebooks with older readers.

By delving into the dilemmas presented in the narrative of The Boy at the Back of the Class, we introduce into the classroom the questioning of violence, racism, sexism, and classism. This also fosters critical awareness of our own prejudices, enabling us to become agents committed to sustainable goals within our global societies.

Promoting the shared reading of picture books that embrace the pleasure of humor and intertextual recognition strengthens the literary competence of future mediators.

Reading for the sake of reading, the dolce far niente, becomes a gateway to uncover reading through curiosity and the surprise sparked by all kinds of books, with the ultimate goal of rekindling the joy of reading for pleasure.

Cristina Aliagas: Training reading promotion professionals: pillars, challenges and strategies that work.
What do we understand by reading promotion?
She has given examples of museum focused on literature and how they can encourage reading. This brought us to share, in the final discussion and padlet, the names of museums and other atractions worldwide that can be visited.

The Fun and Excitement of Making New Spaces for Picturebooks. Some of the ideas highlighted by the atendees was the combination with STEM, very important for career development.

A reflexion about teachers' beliefs about picture book selections that stressed the importance of the didactic attitude of the teachers and teaching students for literary learning.