Developing Readers and Reading Spaces in Your School
- Target Group
- JCSP Teachers and other teachers of junior cycle interested in improving access to books and reading spaces in their schools.
- Course Aims
- This course will look at ways in which schools can create reading spaces, develop their stock of books and increase their students' reading for pleasure.
On successful completion of this course, participating teachers should be able to :
- Identify sources and suppliers of appropriate books and reading materials.
- Select reading materials that match the interests and reading levels of their students.
- Create a welcoming space for reading.
- Develop strategies to promote reading for pleasure.
- Employ to best effect, with the input of the findings of the JCSP Demonstration Library Project, the library resources available to them.
