Reading for Pleasure

Phil Beadle''s How to Teach series.

In Reading for Pleasure, Kenny Pieper has gathered a range of tried-and-tested strategies to get kids reading, and enjoying it. We hear too often that kids don''t read any more: Kenny thinks it should be every teacher''s mission to prove this isn''t true. In a squeezed curriculum it can be tempting to accept pupils'' lack of reading and make excuses that there is not enough time to give to the ''luxury'' of personal reading. Teachers do this at our peril. Reading is the essential building block of further literacy development as well as a skill, hobby and habit that we can take with us forever.

Kenny Pieper takes the act of reading for granted, as many - but sadly not all - adults do. You''re reading this right now. However, this isn''t the case for everyone. Kenny teaches kids whose lives are terrifying obstacle courses of reading-related problems. They know they struggle with reading so they try to avoid reading at all costs. They leave schoo