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The following examples show the ways reading for pleasure
has been used in a variety of adult learning settings including
Skills for Life, Adult Community Learning, the workplace and
the prison service. Many examples of good practice described
can be adapted to other settings, and we hope you will find
ideas here to inspire you wherever you teach.
1) Words in the workplace
Rosemary Ryan describes a partnership between the TUC, adult
education tutors and Manchester Libraries to bring passion
to the workplace!
2) Reading for Pleasure summer
school
Gill Johnson is Area Curriculum Co-ordinator, Skills for
Life. She is involved with many courses in Suffolk, including
a Reading for Pleasure summer school. The success of this
four-week course led to a regular drop-in group. Volunteers
enabled 1:1 support for readers at all levels.
3) Using Quick Reads with
Entry Level learners
Janet Selvage is a tutor with Hull Adult Education Services
in Skills for Life. She did this work with a small group of
learners who had learning difficulties and were working at
Entry 1 or Entry 2. Janet decided to adapt a Quick Reads book
and use it for reading aloud.
4) Integrating
reading and writing for pleasure into basic skills
Gill Moore works at Tamworth & Lichfield College, where
she has used Quick Reads books to integrate reading and writing
with a basic skills class.
5) Working across the
Skills for Life team
Sue Turner is Senior Literacy Tutor at Buckinghamshire Culture
and Learning Service where she is encouraging her colleagues
in Skills for Life to adopt Quick Reads to make full use of
the Quick reads resources and the Raw materials.
6) Reading group at
HMP Hull
Susan Berrieman is Head of Library at HM Prison, Hull. She
runs a reading group and acts as a resource centre for the
prison's education unit. Developing out of the work with books,
a group has now begun listening to classical music and learning
about different musical styles.
7) Reading and writing
for pleasure in Welsh prisons
Louise Richards is Reader in Residence in the prison service
in Wales. Here she describes seven varied and creative projects
run through partnerships which include the Paul Hamlyn Foundation's
'Free with Words' project and BBC RaW.
8) Hooked on books
Jill Harrison's reading group is so successful that learners
keep on coming even after they have passed Level 2 and moved
on.
9) Reading with mentally
ill learners
Janet Hunt is a teacher working with an NHS Day Therapy secure
unit. Her learners have enjoyed taking part in reading groups.
10) Step into Reading
for Fun
Cumbria Adult Education Service seized the First Steps agenda
to develop a 'Step into reading for fun' course, inspired
by Quick Reads. Working with the library service, the courses
took off. Victoria Emmett describes what happened.
David Bailey and Lesley Clements describe a project with Oldham Library and Lifelong Learning Centre, where reading aloud was the main focus.
Bernadette Brown describes how she set up a reading club in her college's Learning Resource Centre in Derwent.
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