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Joy Court - Read to Succeed: Strategies to Engage Children and Young People in Reading for Pleasure - 9781856047470 - V9781856047470
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Read to Succeed: Strategies to Engage Children and Young People in Reading for Pleasure

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Description for Read to Succeed: Strategies to Engage Children and Young People in Reading for Pleasure Paperback. Covers various aspects of promoting reading to and with children and young people from birth right through to teenage years. This title is suitable for practitioners and students of librarianship in both the public and school sectors, and for teachers, consultants and educators concerned with literacy and reading. Editor(s): Court, Joy. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: GLM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 163 x 16. Weight in Grams: 440.

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 ... Read more

  • 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.

Readership: 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.

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Product Details

Publisher
Facet Publishing
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
439g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781856047470
SKU
V9781856047470
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1

About Joy Court
Joy Court is a Past Chair of CILIP Youth Libraries Group, a CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medal Coordinator, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Member of the National Council of UKLA.

Reviews for Read to Succeed: Strategies to Engage Children and Young People in Reading for Pleasure
"The timing of this seminal work, edited by Joy Court, could not be better. As the status of public and school libraries comes under review and concern about the place of reading for pleasure in young people's lives continues, this excellent reference books gathers together all the evidence needed to make a case for promoting the joy of reading to ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Read to Succeed: Strategies to Engage Children and Young People in Reading for Pleasure


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