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Webinar: Shared reading resource

Type: Training webinars
Level: Core, Silver, Gold
Audience: Additional Support Needs, Primary, Secondary
Key area: 2.3.1 Modelling reading behaviours

This shared practice webinar provides advice for sharing books and developing your confidence in reading books aloud, and can be used to support key area 2.3.1 Modelling reading behaviours.

Guest speakers Vivian French, Yvonne Manning and Deborah McDonald share their top tips for reading aloud with children.

Vivian French has published over 300 books for children; she teaches illustration, runs writing workshops and is also the co-founder of Picture Hooks, a project that supports emerging illustrators.

Yvonne Manning is principal librarian at Falkirk Council. She has received the Youth Libraries Group Librarian of the Year award in recognition of her work encouraging young people to engage with reading and libraries.

Deborah McDonald works in a primary school in Moray and shares an example of good practice in whole-school shared reading.

At the bottom of this webpage, you will also find a downloadable Shared reading resource, which highlights research on the importance of shared reading, and provides further top tips and book suggestions for reading aloud in your classroom. To find out more about shared reading, look at Key area 2.3.1 – Modelling reading behaviours or 2.3.2 – Staff-led meaningful conversations around books.

Webinar: Shared Reading: A practice to support reading for pleasure

Introduction to Shared Reading (12mins 45s)

Scottish Book Trust’s Emily Ilett and Liam McCallum give an introduction to the research to the benefits of shared reading and how reading aloud fits within the Reading Schools framework.

Guest speaker: Vivian French (8mins 51s)

Author and illustrator Vivian French shares her advice for bringing books to life, including the importance of the pause and giving yourself permission to skip bits!

Guest speaker: Yvonne Manning (15mins 17s)

Principal librarian Yvonne Manning explains how her library service supports practitioners develop confidence reading aloud, and models ways to hook learners with a text through play and interaction. Yvonne’s own personal recommendations of texts which could be effective hooks include: Alice’s Art Class: A Magic Colour Book by Harley Black; Shark in the Park by Nick Sharratt; The Book No One Wants to Read by Beth Bacon; and The Wolf, the Duck and the Mouse by Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen.

Guest speaker: Deborah McDonald (10mins)

Primary teacher Deborah McDonald shares how she has developed shared reading in her school by introducing storytime at assemblies, with different staff members reading and performing stories aloud.