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Introduction to the Lifelong
Readers Framework
A lifelong learner is first and foremost a lifelong
reader. Lifelong Readers (LiRe) aims to provide
school librarians, teachers, and school leaders
with guidance and tools for encouraging children
of ages 6-12 to develop lifelong reading habits. In
specific,
the Lifelong Readers (LiRe) project aims
:
1.
To convince stakeholders about the need to devote more time and effort
to reading promotion and to place reading for pleasure at the centre of
their policies, approaches and practices.
2.
To provide stakeholders with guidance, training, and an array of tools for
reading promotion in the primary school.
3.
To initiate change by implementing reading promotion programmes in
all participating countries.
To achieve these aims, the LiRe team has built a
reading promotion framework
which
features:
1.
Principles, strategies and approaches for promoting the joy of reading,
building reading communities, and sustaining reading cultures;
2.
Summary descriptions of successful reading promotion programs;
3.
An extensive collection of reading promotion actions;
4.
Reading promotion and reading habits evaluation tools;
5.
An annotated catalogue of relevant resources.
All of the above can be openly accessed, and utilized for school-staff training, at the
project’s site:
This “abridged” version of the LiRe Framework
introduces you to some of the most important parts of the framework, which have been
condensed and localized for your convenience. After previewing this document, we
highly recommend that you also visit our website, where you can find more than 100
proposed actions and activities, useful resources, and much more.
