Reader development

Anne's popular reader development courses for public, school and further education library staff and teachers identify successful ways to foster reading enjoyment and support literacy skills.

Anne provides courses that explore reader development with children and young people generically, and courses that focus on specific age-groups or particular issues such as reading reluctance and reading difficulties.

These courses are appropriate for national, regional and local authority training, and for whole school inset. Anne always tailors her courses to client and delegate requirements. All come with full sets of handouts.

All Anne’s reader development courses cover:

  • what motivates children and young people to read and what puts them off
  • practical methods for promoting pleasure in reading, broadening reading horizons  and overcoming reading reluctance
  • strategies for exploiting reading resources effectively
  • ideas for meeting children’s and young people’s reading needs supportively
  • recent research

Depending on need, courses can also include:

  • how children learn to read
  • strategies for supporting children and young people with reading difficulties
  • gender and reading
  • reading and social exclusion
  • parents' and carers' needs and concerns, and ways to help

Watch Anne talk about her CILIP course Reader development for children and young people in a multi-media age here.

What people say about this training

I came on this training course for more ideas on how to promote reading in the library, and have come away with so much more! I now feel more motivated and I am sure that I can put the ideas into practice. The day was very well planned out.

An excellent course full of great ideas and examples. I'm sure the academic research and general resources links will prove very valuable.

I feel very positive. The course has given me a great boost and encouragement for the future.

Coursework content pack very well laid out and useful. Presentation very clear. Group work very productive and insightful.

Relevant, informative and most enjoyable. I’ve been given extra confidence to help children in the library.

Truly inspirational! I have not felt quite so fired up about my work in a while, but the sky's the limit now.