Reading for pleasure is a social justice issue. International evidence indicates it offers cognitive, social and emotional benefits, helping children make connections with each other, their teachers, families and the wider world. This conference will help you enrich your repertoire of children’s texts and create reading communities that connect and support young readers. Author Frank Cottrell Boyce and Norfolk Children’s Book Centre bookshop will enrich the day! Workshops led by OU/UKLA Teachers’ Reading Group members will offer evidence-informed practice.

PROGRAMME

09.30-10.00 Registration and coffee

10.00-10.30 Research to practice welcome: Teresa Cremin, The OU

10.30-11.15 Award Winners' Keynotes: Kat Young and Clara Breakwell, Laura Atkinson

11.15-11.45 Coffee and bookshops

11.45-12.45 Workshops A B C D E F

12.45-13.45 OURfP 5th year celebratory drink and lunch

13.45-14.45 Workshops A B C D E F

14.55-15.50 Author Keynote: Frank Cottrell Boyce

15.50-16.00 Closing words: Book blether and commitments

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