Toolkit to support student and early career teachers with Reading for Pleasure by

Knowledge of children's texts (OURfP.org)

helenhendry1 — 2024-04-12 10:46:27 UTC

Main page for resources to support teachers' knowledge of texts. Scroll down for audit, research summary and classroom strategies

Free online short course 'Developing reading for pleasure'

helenhendry1 — 2024-04-12 10:49:17 UTC

Free online course including all aspects of RfP pedagogy- How might you use with ECTs?

Reflecting on children's perceptions of me as a reader: Example of Practice (OURfP.org)

helenhendry1 — 2024-04-12 10:51:32 UTC

Example of a teacher reflecting on her own reader identity through children's perceptions. What approach might you take with ECTs?

Sharing 'Me as a Reader' : Example of Practice (OURfP. org)

helenhendry1 — 2024-04-12 10:53:30 UTC

Example of a teacher sharing their reading practices with class to create RfP community. Could you adapt to support ECTs?

Examples of practice

helenhendry1 — 2024-04-12 10:57:35 UTC

Review these student and ECT examples of developing RfP in their classrooms and with other student teachers. Which would you share and how could you support ECTs to put any similar ideas into practice?

The Teachers' Reading Challenge

helenhendry1 — 2024-04-12 11:00:17 UTC

Sign up to explore the free OU and Reading Agency Teachers' Reading Challenge website. How could you use this challenge (June-October 2024) to support staff knowledge of texts?

Book award winners (OURfP.org)

helenhendry1 — 2024-04-12 11:21:37 UTC

How might you share and support ECTs to read some recent award winning texts?

Texts and authors (OURfP.org)

helenhendry1 — 2024-04-12 11:24:04 UTC

How might you help ECTs become familiar with contemporary author such as this regularly updated collection on the OURfP site?

Teachers' reading groups

helenhendry1 — 2024-04-12 11:27:09 UTC

Is there a Teachers' Reading Group near you? Would you like to start one? Could you include ECTs?

helenhendry1 — 2024-04-12 14:57:39 UTC

Teachers and student teachers can use a document like this, or a virtual space such as padlet to save and share their reading and reflections on what they've read. Do you have something like this in place already? Could it support your staff/ students? How could it be used in combination with the other resources in this section to build up a 'reading repertoire' of contemporary and diverse texts?

helenhendry1 — 2024-04-24 14:58:14 UTC

Possible reading lives activities to stimulate discussion and reflection with student teachers and ECTs. How might you use? Which would you focus on?

helenhendry1 — 2024-04-25 13:08:30 UTC

helenhendry1 — 2024-04-25 13:10:00 UTC

The OU RfP website- research and practice

helenhendry1 — 2024-04-25 13:14:30 UTC

The OU RfP website summarises research findings and practices for supporting children's RfP. It includes downloadable posters, video clips and staff meeting ppts- how could you use these with new teachers?

Knowledge for RfP audit

helenhendry1 — 2024-04-25 13:22:53 UTC

This document, or key questions from it can be used to find out where staff / students have gaps in their knowledge. How could you use this sensitively to support and encourage new teachers to reflect on their knowledge?

helenhendry1 — 2024-04-25 19:22:08 UTC

At a previous institution, we worked with student teachers and ECTs (or NQTs back then!) to do the Carnegie shadowing with local schools - was great for those students and teachers

2024 Good reads challenge

helenhendry1 — 2024-04-25 19:25:44 UTC

Suggested by a participant in our session. Another reading challenge- perhaps focused on adult reading rather than children's texts- could be used to talk about reader identity