Join us this Thursday for an online webinar focused on supporting #readingforpleasure among families. I'll be sharing details of the Nuffield Foundation Love to Read project, a collaboration with Scottish Book Trust, National Literacy Trust + Education Scotland. Please join us! 📚❤️ 👇

Find out what children have to say about school based #readingforpleasure practices + much more in this BERA Special Issue Blog on reading perspectives & experiences across the lifespan bera.ac.uk/blog-series/to… Sarah McGeown UoELiteracyLab

National Literacy Trust research shows that only 28% of children/young people read regularly outside class. Our Nuffield Foundation programme, Love to Read, provides research-informed approaches to inspire and sustain a love of reading. Access our programme, evaluation + more here:

‘It helps me understand more about people, like I’m reading people’ UoELiteracyLab researcher Elena Santi shares young people’s perspectives of reading fiction and their empathy, in this BERA blogpost: bera.ac.uk/blog/reading-a… #empathyday EmpathyLabUK Sarah McGeown Developmental Psychology in Education

Really enjoyed discussing the benefits and experiences offered by books, when children are deeply engaged with the books that they read. Thank you Renaissance UK & Ireland! Listen here: buzzsprout.com/1689301/129453… Love to Read UoELiteracyLab

Join us on 24th June for English Association webinar discussing #ReadingforPleasure + UKLA Picture Book Awards! With Teresa Cremin, hosted by Dr Megan Dixon. Sign-up here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/reading-for-…

If you are looking for something to read during your morning commute, check out our BERA blog series on reading engagement & experiences: bera.ac.uk/blog-series/to… from UoELiteracyLab members😃📚🧡

📢New research article on children's perspectives of #readingforpleasure practices in primary school - recommended reading for anyone interested in supporting/researching RfP! 📚🧡 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… Sarah McGeown Dr Emily Oxley Scottish Book Trust Education Scotland National Literacy Trust

Interested in supporting children's #readingforpleasure? Join me for School Library Association (SLA) webinar on Love to Read principles to inspire and sustain a love of reading: sla.org.uk/ticket/love-to… Nuffield Foundation National Literacy Trust Scottish Book Trust Education Scotland Moray House School of Education and Sport

Interested in teenage reading? Brilliant series of blogposts by Dr Charlotte Webber (she/her) sharing her research on benefits, barriers and supports, with UoELiteracyLab and Scottish Book Trust, funded by SGSSS scottishbooktrust.com/articles/autho… Katherine Wilkinson Lynne Duncan

📢New paper: Approaches to support adolescents' reading motivation - a narrative review led by Dr Charlotte Webber (she/her) with Scottish Book Trust: frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…. Blogpost and summary here: scottishbooktrust.com/articles/motiv…. Katherine Wilkinson Lynne Duncan National Literacy Trust Teresa Cremin ES Literacy

New article for teachers based on Nuffield Foundation Love to Read project - reading engagement matters - supporting different types of engagement with books!

Research celebrating the transformative power of reading fiction and how it can support empathy... insights from children #EmpathyWeek

"I’ve started to like books more and more… because I’ve found books that I like" Supporting children to choose books they will enjoy is essential to foster a love of reading. Our resource with World Book Day UK 📚 includes tips for teachers and children 👇 Nuffield Foundation Sarah McGeown

Happy #WorldBookDay2024 😍 Learning how to choose books you will enjoy is so important to develop a love of reading. These resources can help teachers and children to find books they will love this World Book Day! Happy reading 😃📚 World Book Day UK 📚 Nuffield Foundation UoELiteracyLab

Interested in #representation in fiction? Our research with Scottish Book Trust BookTrust National Literacy Trust and others explores #Neurodivergent young people's perspectives📚 Read our findings here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/27… Sarah McGeown Dr Charlotte Webber (she/her) Dr Catherine Crompton