Research School Network: How do young people become readers? Part of the Big Question series: exploring how reading becomes a habit.

The Big Question Series

Teaching involves making hundreds of decisions every day. Many of those decisions are shaped by bigger questions about how pupils learn, what motivates them and how schools can help them succeed. Each webinar in The Big Question Series starts with one of those questions and explores what the evidence can tell us about it. Along the way, we will examine different perspectives, consider the implications for practice and reflect on what this might mean for our own classrooms.

How do young people become readers?

In this session, we will explore what the evidence can tell us about how young people become readers. We will look at reading for pleasure, reading motivation, fluency, vocabulary and knowledge, and how schools can create the conditions for reading to become a habit.