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Implementation Report from the UK
Executive Summary:
Reading for pleasure remains
high priority for many schools
especially in light of statutory
guidance from the Government
in the UK. This report highlights
results from an evaluation of a
whole school reading promotion
plan implemented by one school
in England comprising data collated from pupils and staff immediately prior to and
following the implementation of the programme.
The programme consisted of reading promotion activities from the Lifelong readers’
Project website, trialled in school to evaluate effectiveness and suitability, together with
planned whole school events in order to raise the profile of reading within the school
and wider community, raise standards of attainment in reading, encourage a willingness
to read for pleasure and to encourage confident, enthusiastic readers.
Three training workshops were carried out in schools to develop the reading promotion
plan and train teachers to use the reading promotion activities; trainee teachers from
the University of Worcester were involved, working alongside teachers to trial these
activities. A reading promotion audit was completed and a reading promotion plan
produced by the school.
Whilst there were many strengths identified within the school, there were also areas to
be addressed; most notably around pupils perceptions of teachers as readers, teachers’
perceptions of pupils’ enjoyment of reading and further encouraging reading for
pleasure within the home environment.
