We’ve Trained 715 People This Term To Help Children With Reading!
It’s been a brilliant and busy term for Reading Matters! We have been working in partnership with many schools and other organisations to train Reading Mentors, Reading Leaders, parents, carers and school staff to help them improve the reading skills of the children and young people who they support.
This term we have been invited back to many schools who have already benefited from our programmes and we have also formed new partnerships with schools nationwide, delivering training in North Lincolnshire, Hull, Tower Hamlets, Stevenage, Devon, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire as well as schools closer to home. We even had our first international booking and travelled to The International School of The Hague to train some secondary Reading Leaders.
Ebooks Can Help Boys Engage In Reading
Ebooks can help to boost boys’ reading abilities and encourage them to read for pleasure, according to research published this week by The National Literacy Trust. An e-reading project was conducted with 468 pupils at 40 schools across the UK.
Interestingly only 34.4 % of boys that took part regarded reading as cool before the project started, compared to 66.5% afterwards, showing that the use of technology brought about a significant improvement in attitudes to reading. “It is important to recognise the increased reading opportunities that technology offers pupils and how it can help children who struggle to read” said Irene Picton, Research Manager at the National Literacy Trust.
Reading Matters believes that anything that makes reading more accessible and attractive to children can only be positive and that using ebooks as a means of motivating children to read is a good idea. We encourage our Reading Mentors and Reading Leaders to use technology as one way of engaging their reading partners.
Leeds Schools Library Service Goes Further
Does your primary school need help to deliver the Reading for Pleasure part of the English curriculum? Is your library looking sad and neglected? Don’t know where to start? Leeds Schools Library Service can support you, even if you are not within the Leeds boundary. For more information please have a look at the website www.leeds.gov.uk or contact Pauline Thresh SLS Manager at sls@leeds.gov.uk, 0113 3782677.
Happy Reading!
From the team at Reading Matters
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