Reading and reader development courses

Anne gives a wide range of courses on strategies for supporting children’s and young people’s reading, for teachers and teaching assistants, school librarians, further education librarians, public library staff, early years practitioners, parents and carers, and as cross-sector training.

Her courses focus particularly on promoting reading enjoyment, overcoming reading reluctance and building a strong reading ethos and culture.

• Booktime
• Boys and reading
• Children's book awards
• Curiosity kits
• Family literacy
• Girls and reading
• Looked-after children and reading
• Promoting reading at key stages 1 and 2
• Promoting reading at key stages 2 and 3
• Reader development
• Reading for information
• Reading in the early years
• Reading in the foundation stage and key stage 1
• Reading and the school library at key stages 2 and 3
• Reading and the primary school library
• Reading and the secondary school and college library
• Reading problems: reading challenges
• Using picture books to support learning
• Workshops and talks for parents and carers

Anne’s reading and reader development courses are suitable for national and regional training and for individual local authorities.

Anne also provides customised whole-school in-service training on promoting reading across the curriculum.

Anne tailors every course to client requirements and learner needs. All are practical and interactive and are backed up with comprehensive sets of handouts.

Anne is very happy to design new courses in response to demand.