Reading for Pleasure at Curtin

05/02/2025

It’s World Read Aloud Day! What are you going to read today?

28/09/2024

Our September Top Texts! ✨📚 Sonja Kuzich, Director of Learning and Teaching and Senior Lecturer at the Curtin University in Western Australia, has provided us with a wonderful mix of texts this month 💙 How many do you recognise? 👉 https://ourfp.org/top_texts/top-texts-for-september-2024/

29/07/2024

Have you registered for our next session? We'll be exploring the wonderful world of information texts - we'll love to see you there!

Do you want to develop children's pleasure in reading? Register now for our on-line session on Monday August 5th @ 4.30pm

28/07/2024

In our upcoming Reading for Pleasure session, we will discuss the merits of informational texts and how they can be used to create an enjoyable reading experience for children. Join us Monday August 5th at 4:30 pm WST - and bring along your favourite information text to share!

20/05/2024

Our next session of our Teachers Reading Group is today! It's not too late to join, and you don't need to have attended session 1 to sign up for session 2- today we'll be exploring all things poetry and verse novels wit Dr Paul Gardner. Register to receive the link and details of forthcoming sessions. We encourage all attendees today to bring along their favourite children's poem, collection of poetry, or verse novel - we can't wait to hear what you're all reading and enjoying!

Do you want to develop children's pleasure in reading? Register now for our on-line session on May 20.

20/05/2024

Are you joining National Simultaneous Storytime this week? We're excited to be reading Bowerbird Blues along with millions of other Australians!!

Get your bowers ready, it's two days until NSS! There's still time to register and join over 2 million participants who'll be reading this Wednesday 👉 https://buff.ly/3QNuwO0

For those who've already registered, the resources will be coming this evening so keep an eye on your inboxes! Later registrants will also receive the resources.

Aura Parker Scholastic Australia

22/04/2024

Our first Teachers Reading Group meeting is today, and it's not too late to join! We'll be learning about the Reading for Pleasure pedagogy and all the wonderful resources available from OU Reading for Pleasure, and chatting about graphic novels and comics! Over each of our 6 sessions, we'll share about a different text type, but the focus will be the same - how can we cultivate a culture of reading for pleasure in our schools? The first step is to have teachers who love reading for pleasure - if that's you, come along and join us!
4:30pm AWST (Perth time), 6:30pm AEST (Sydney) - whatever time zone you're in, we'd love to see you.
https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/reading-for-pleasure-rfp-in-schools-tickets-856724364637?

Do you want to develop children's pleasure in reading? Register now.

15/04/2024

Encouraging reading in secondary students! Reading for pleasure is important for all ages - and the first suggestion in this article is to provide graphic novel options for students, which is what we’ll be discussing in our first RfP session on April 22! Have you booked yet? We’d love to see you there! (I’ll pop the link in the comments)

When students are reading below their grade level, these different approaches can motivate them to engage with texts and improve their literacy skills.

02/04/2024

Happy International Children’s Book Day! Each year, a different branch of IBBY host the day, and in 2024 Japan celebrates the power of books to help us “cross the seas on the wings of your imagination.” Where will a children’s book take you today?

Happy International Childrens Book Day!

25/03/2024

We love Sally Rippin, our wonderful new Australian Children's Laureate - read all about her mission to get Australian kids reading in this fantastic article!

The new Australian Children's Laureate shares her mission to get more children reading

24/03/2024

Need some weekend inspiration or seeking brilliant book recommendations for your readers? 💙📚 Martin Galway from the National Literacy Trust has chosen a super selection of powerful reads for our March Top Texts! 👉 https://ourfp.org/top_texts/top-texts-for-march-2024/

21/03/2024

Today is World Poetry Day, and what better way to celebrate than to share this wonderful new anthology of poetry by wonderful WA writers! Edited by our very own Sally Murphy with Rebecca M Newman, and illustrated by Briony Stewart, it's a fantastic collection of poetry for the young and the young at heart. You don't have to take my word for it - Better Reading thinks so too. What poetry are you going to read today?

What’s the book about? Stand on your head with Sally Murphy, explode some dynamite with Cristy Burne or shoot some hoops with Cheryl Kickett-Tucker. Grow a poet-tree with Meg McKinlay or curl up next to your cat with Amber Moffat and watch a bit of Stink-o-Vision with James Foley. These and loads ...