[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-teachers-learning-together-involving-parents-and-pugs":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"Sometimes you meet a teacher who's \u003Ci>really\u003C/i> on fire about reading. When I met Year 4 teacher \u003Cb>Claire Williams\u003C/b> at a UKLA conference and she sounded enthusiastic about using \u003Ci>Pugs of the Frozen North\u003C/i> with her class, I never knew just HOW much she was going to run with it. We stayed in touch, and she advised me on how to put together book-themed challenges for classes. And then she went away and did a whole project with parents, showing how when parents and kids work together on book-related projects, it really fires up the kids! \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/263135_original-c99f21b9fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nIf you're working with kids, definitely read Claire's report - with lots of photos - about how she used \u003Ci>Pugs of the Frozen North\u003C/i> together with parents and children: \u003Ca href=\"https://researchrichpedagogies.org/_downloads/_eop/Learning_together_-_involving_parents_C_Williams.pdf\">click here for the PDF\u003C/a>. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"https://researchrichpedagogies.org/_downloads/_eop/Learning_together_-_involving_parents_C_Williams.pdf\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/262823_original-bd7fceafd5.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\n\u003C!--more Click here for lots more under the cut!-->\\r\nHere's someone helping her kid make a personalised sled for a 'Race to the Top of the World' display around the classroom. Claire's project encourages 'Reading for Pleasure', the idea that if we let children enjoy reading fun stuff and don't always treat it as an arduous educational exercise that puts them off, children get hooked on reading as something enjoyable, and are much more likely to read throughout their lives. Claire emphasises the importance of relationships in reading, and how parental involvement really helps. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/263323_original-eb7e4359c8.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nYou can download the fun \u003Ci>Pugs of the Frozen North\u003C/i> classroom creative challenges that Claire and I put together \u003Ca href=\"http://www.jabberworks.co.uk/pugs-of-the-frozen-north/\">here on my website\u003C/a>! \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/263596_original-fc30569fdf.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nI was quite moved by what Claire shared! She wrote, \\r\n\\r\n\u003Ci>Our ‘Race to the Top of the World’ topic came to an end the week before half term in  October. I was absolutely blown away on the first day of the spring term, almost three  months later, when children in my class came running up to me on the playground to show me the copies of \u003C/i>Pugs of the Frozen North\u003Ci> – and Philip and Sarah’s other books – that had been in their stockings. Comments from parents in Reading Records showed that the children and parents had enjoyed reading these books together during the Christmas holiday and this continued into the spring term. There were also comments about the impact parents had seen on their children’s enjoyment of and motivation to read.\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\nThank you, Claire! \\r\n\\r\nAnd here's the Open University website that hosted Claire's research project, \u003Ca href=\"\">Research Rich Pedagogies\u003C/a>. The overall project is called \u003Ci>Teachers as Readers: Building Communities of Readers\u003C/i>, and emphasises the importance of teachers' knowledge of children's literature. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"https://www.researchrichpedagogies.org/research/reading-for-pleasure\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/263924_original-47baa64a12.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\nIf you're on Twitter, you can follow Claire Williams and get inspired at \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/_borntosparkle\">@_borntosparkle\u003C/a>, my co-author Philip Reeve at \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/philipreeve1\">@philipreeve1\u003C/a> and Open University Reading for Pleasure at \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/OpenUni_RfP\">@OpenUni_RfP\u003C/a>.","2017-06-11T20:30:00.000Z","teachers-learning-together-involving-parents-and-pugs",[],"teachers: learning together, involving parents - and pugs!",1776628729091]