Reading and Writing for Pleasure: An Evidence-Informed Framework for Practice
About this ebook
The book offers a rich understanding of the study, highlighting the commonalities and synergies identified from the research literature and diverse practice contexts. It introduces a new and powerful Reading and Writing Framework for Practice for schools and charitable literacy programmes. The authors offer practical strategies and recommendations throughout for practitioners, researchers and policy makers who wish to advance this agenda in their own contexts. Areas covered include:
- The nature of reading and writing for pleasure
- Literate identities
- Motivating readers and writers
- Social interactions
- Role models and connected communities
- Future research, practice and policy
This field-defining text is a key resource for all those committed to halting the decline in young people’s engagement as volitional readers and writers.
About the author
Teresa Cremin is Professor of Education, and co-director of The Open University’s Literacy and Social Justice Centre. Her research focuses on volitional reading and writing, teachers’ and children’s literate identities and practices and creative pedagogies.
Helen Hendry is Senior Lecturer in Education (Primary) at The Open University and co-director of the Literacy and Social Justice Centre. Her research centres on early years’ pedagogy, reading for pleasure and teacher professional development.
Liz Chamberlain is Emerita Professor and past co-director of The Open University’s Children’s Research Centre. Her research explores the knowledge intersection between practice, learners and practitioners through the lens of literacy education.
Samantha Jayne Hulston is a Research Associate at The Open University. Her research focuses on young children’s embodied engagement with stories and the role of teachers in supporting children’s playful exploration of texts.
