Reading for Pleasure (The Open University)

The OURfP team are delighted to have won the ✨Outstanding Impact✨ award in The OU’s Research Excellence Awards 2024! 📚💙 Find out more here 👉 https://lnkd.in/gezsjY74 Teresa Cremin Helen Hendry Kelly Ashley Debbie Thomas Stephanie Hilder Dr Eric Addae-Kyeremeh FBCS CITP CMgr FCMI SFHEA

New #OURfPblog! 💙📚 Researcher and former teacher Samantha Jayne Hulston discusses nurturing #RfP in the Early Years through playful activities! ✨ Read here 👇 https://lnkd.in/eHTYA66J #ReadingforPleasure #OURfP #Teaching #Literacy

Bex Starman - Literacy Specialist, Deputy Head and English Lead as well as an OU/UKLA Teacher Reading Group Leader - has shared some of her favourite texts for KS1 & KS2 this month! 📚💙⭐ Explore them here 👉 https://lnkd.in/eVsNWKwe

How can schools foster the internal motivation to build the life-long habit of reading? 📚✨ #OURfP lecturer Kelly Ashley discusses the building blocks of #RfP Architecture in her new Book Squad Blog for Collins – available to read here 👇 https://lnkd.in/e2jgk2sW

OURfP’s Teresa Cremin and Helen Hendry joined Geoff Barton, Chair of the Commission on the Future of Oracy Education in England, to talk about the role of relaxed book blether in reading for pleasure. 💙🎧📚 Available on podcast platforms, listen on Spotify here 👇 #ReadingforPleasure #OURfP #RfP #Literacy #Teaching #Oracy

📣 Almost time for our newsletter! Get your monthly fix of all things #RfP 📚 Author in the spotlight James Mayhew, October’s Top Texts, RfP research, news, events & more! 💙 Sign up now or forward to a friend 👉 https://lnkd.in/ewB4EXz4 #ReadingforPleasure #Teaching #OURfP

The Teachers' Reading Challenge is still open until 31st October! Learn more about reading for pleasure, enter book competitions and join a community of passionate readers! 💙📚 Find out more and sign up today 👉 https://lnkd.in/e-QgeBVW In partnership with The Reading Agency #TRC2024 #RfP

📣 Check your inboxes, our September newsletter is out now! ☀️ Get your monthly fix of all things #RfP 📚 Author in the spotlight Swapna Haddow, Top Texts, RfP research, news, events & more! 💙 Sign up here 👉 https://lnkd.in/ewB4EXz4 #ReadingforPleasure #Teaching #OURfP

Calling all teachers & educators! 💙📚 Would you like to join a local OU/UKLA group of teachers and librarians to discuss the research behind #RfP and boost your knowledge of children’s & YA lit? ✨ Visit our TRG page to find out more, and to join your friendly local/online group 👉 https://lnkd.in/e2jNK3-8

This summer, we welcomed 160+ teachers, educators, librarians and RfP professionals to our Reading and Writing for Pleasure conference! 💙 A day of talks, research, workshops, awards & author keynotes! ⭐📚 Explore the research, awards and EoPs 👉 https://ow.ly/rzig50SRFq9