Teachers who are committed readers and who model their enjoyment of reading to their classes, tend to:

• plan their teaching around a wide range of high quality texts reflecting the diversity of young readers and their communities
• motivate learners by modelling readerly behaviours
• find engaging texts which are more demanding than children and young adults might read on their own
• create opportunities to talk about reading
• read aloud to classes from a range of fiction, information, poetry, and from what children and young adults write themselves
• encourage reading of texts created by and about people of colour as a matter of course
• lead children and young adults to seek out further reading matter independently
• make informed choices of texts to recommend for school libraries and independent reading.

You can download the full UKLA Viewpoint on teachers and reading to the right of this page.