Big impact, small talk! 💬
Discover simple ways to build everyday book chat and peer recommendations 👉https://ourfp.org/finding/rfpp/booktalk-and-recommendations/
#RfP #BookTalk #Blether #Recommendations Teresa Cremin
05.12.2025 11:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Reading aloud connects hearts and minds. 💛📖
It models joy, builds empathy and invites every listener into the story world. Explore tips and examples of powerful read-aloud practice 👉 https://ourfp.org/finding/reading-aloud/
#RfP #ReadingAloud Ashley Kelly Debbie Thomas
28.11.2025 15:05 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Make reading social! 💬📖
Find inspiration for creating spaces where readers connect, share and grow 👉 https://ourfp.org/finding/rfpp/social-reading-environments/
#RfP #SocialReadingEnvironments Teresa Cremin
21.11.2025 08:05 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Every reader has a story — the key is finding out what it is. 💭📚
Explore practical ways to get to know your pupils as readers and build trust, choice and connection 👉 https://ourfp.org/finding/teachers-knowledge-of-childrens-reading-practices/
#ReadingIdentity Teresa Cremin Debbie Thomas
14.11.2025 14:05 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Keep your reading radar switched on! 📚 Explore resources to grow your knowledge of children’s and YA literature — and inspire others to do the same 👉 https://ourfp.org/finding/teachers-knowledge-of-childrens-literature-and-other-texts/
#ReadingForPleasure Teresa Cremin Ashley Kelly
07.11.2025 10:00 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It’s that time again — the season of spine-tingling stories!
From The Last Firefox to Goth Girl, Crater Lake and Funnybones, spooky reads are the perfect way to spark curiosity (and a few chills!) this Halloween.
What’s haunting your bookshelf? #SpookyReads #ReadingForPleasure
31.10.2025 10:55 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Wonderful @openuni-rfp.bsky.social conference. Well-deserved award to @nj13.bsky.social for her incredible work. Delighted to meet @amdassu.bsky.social and @robbiddulph.bsky.social who were both incredibly inspiring as were the workshops.
18.10.2025 18:12 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0
🍾 Fantastic to toast this exciting new release at today's RfP conference. So much to think about on my drive home.
❤️📖 At thoroughly superb day!
@teresacremin.bsky.social @debbiethomas.bsky.social @kashleyenglish.bsky.social @uklitassociation.bsky.social @openuni-rfp.bsky.social
#RfP
18.10.2025 15:36 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
✨️ Wonderful to see the Opening Doors books at the @openuni-rfp.bsky.social and @uklitassociation.bsky.social Reading for Pleasure Conference in Milton Keynes today.
@openingdoors.bsky.social @thinktalkleah.bsky.social @juliesargent.bsky.social @crownhousepub.bsky.social
#ReadingForPleasure
18.10.2025 09:55 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Congratulations to the winners & all those highly commended in The HarperCollins Reading for Pleasure Awards 2025. Find out who has been crowned & how they have built a reading community in their school or library. 👏 #EduSky @openuni-rfp.bsky.social
booksforkeeps.co.uk/58089-2/
18.10.2025 11:15 — 👍 5 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
@openuni-rfp.bsky.social please could you share this? You will know some people with great ideas that we would love to hear from.
14.10.2025 20:44 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Stories feed our imaginations just as food nourishes our bodies. On #WorldFoodDay, let's share books that celebrate food, culture and community!
Which food-themed reads do your pupils love most? #ReadingForPleasure
16.10.2025 07:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We are looking forward to welcoming Nate as our author talk feature for OU KS3 Reading Schools Programme participants this year. It's going to be a wonderful day!
14.10.2025 10:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Are you a teacher, librarian, TA, student, who wants to develop your #readingforpleasure practice? Why not join me for my @openuni-rfp.bsky.social @uklitassociation.bsky.social Teachers' Readers Group. Develop an area of practice over 5 sessions across the year.
04.09.2025 06:50 — 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Oxfordshire-based school staff!
Chris is running a Teachers Reading Group again this year (without me as I am on maternity leave!). It's a wonderful group and Chris is so knowledgeable. Details below - please share!
@openuni-rfp.bsky.social
@debbiethomas.bsky.social
@kashleyenglish.bsky.social
04.09.2025 12:52 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
Wasn't it just glorious?
14.10.2025 10:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Wonderful to have you back on the team again, Amy.
14.10.2025 10:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Lots of happy members there!
14.10.2025 10:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Wonderful! We are looking forward to the book launch this Saturday at the OU RfP conference in Milton Keynes.
14.10.2025 10:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
An illustration by Sandhya Prabhat of a woman watching and smiling as a child eagerly chooses a glowing book from a shelf. Plus the logos for BookTrust, The Open University and Reading For Pleasure and the words: "Why book choice matters for children - discover the research"
⭐ NEW: Today, we're launching our briefing into the importance of book choice for children!
Produced in partnership with @openuni-rfp.bsky.social, the briefing explores the evidence & offers practical advice to support book choice in the classroom:
https://bit.ly/3VNfQk1 @teresacremin.bsky.social
08.10.2025 11:00 — 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 2
We look forward to meeting you there - do say hello!
14.10.2025 10:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
So many fantastic examples, Jon. Thank you for your contributions.
14.10.2025 10:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
There are hundreds of examples of practice on the @openuni-rfp.bsky.social site. I've just uploaded a couple more.
Secondary school pupils supporting the class recommendations shelf: ourfp.org/eop/recommen...
Talking about how we choose books: ourfp.org/eop/choices-...
18.09.2025 19:31 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
Try our #OURfP Reading Surveys for KS3! ✨ Why not use our class surveys to better understand your pupils' attitudes and perspectives towards RfP? 📚💙⭐
👉https://ourfp.org/2023/01/26/pupils-reading-surveys/
#readingforpleasure #literacy #RfP #reading #KS3
23.09.2025 13:58 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Try our #OURfP Reading Surveys for KS2! ✨ Why not use our class surveys to better understand your pupils' attitudes and perspectives towards RfP? 📚🍎💙
👉https://ourfp.org/2023/01/26/pupils-reading-surveys/
#readingforpleasure #literacy #RfP #Reading
18.09.2025 18:35 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Try our #OURfP Reading Surveys for KS1! ✨ Why not use our class surveys to better understand your pupils' attitudes and perspectives towards RfP? 📚🍎💙
👉https://ourfp.org/2023/01/26/pupils-reading-surveys/
#readingforpleasure #literacy #RfP #reading
16.09.2025 09:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We have been awarded a Reading for Pleasure Silver Quality Mark, and as you can see, we are very excited! 📚❤️ @arktindal.bsky.social @uklitassociation.bsky.social @teresacremin.bsky.social @openuni-rfp.bsky.social
15.09.2025 12:56 — 👍 15 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
📣 Check your inboxes - our September newsletter is here! 📚
Author in the Spotlight, Top Texts, brilliant back-to-school ideas and RfP research! 💙
Not subscribed yet? Sign up here 👉 ourfp.org/newsletter-s...
#RfP #ReadingForPleasure #OURfP #Teaching
09.09.2025 18:16 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Teachers’ knowledge of children’s literature truly matters 📚
It underpins our capacity to recommend, relate and respond 💙
Do join the #TRC2025 and help build a vibrant culture of reading, for all!
From @readingagency.bsky.social with #OURfP
👉 teachersreadingchallenge.org.uk
#ReadingTeachers
04.09.2025 18:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A mountain of books, lots of sorting, and endless excitement! 📦📚📚📚
HUGE thanks to our donors for these brilliant reads. Soon they’ll be with our #OURfP & @The_UKLA TRGs, fuelling rich reading conversations! 💙
@childs-play.co.uk @justimaginecentre.bsky.social #OldBarnBooks ...
27.08.2025 15:48 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
P6 teacher trying to do the best I can. Outdoors, nurture and reading for pleasure. Mum of 2 through adoption. Can also be found in the water, on a rock, up a hill or with a book.
Husband / Dad / Primary Teacher / Avid reader
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🚀 Interested in Reading for Pleasure and children’s poetry
Award-winning performance poet, author, educator, entertainer and superhero. I work with all ages visiting schools, libraries etc, in-person and virtually. Latest poetry books: 'Chicken in the Kitchen' and 'Small Poems for Big Imaginations'.
Poet/Performer/Author. Winner - People’s Book Prize & Laugh Out Loud Award (twice). Books by Bloomsbury, HarperCollins etc. MA Writing & Education. Loves lemurs. Website: www.joshuaseigal.co.uk
Family-owned specialist supplier of books and furniture to schools, academies and public libraries, celebrating our 90th birthday in 2025.
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Older pupils run the book clubs for younger ones. Our charity helps young people discover a love of reading and book chat. Teachers say our book clubs increase students' well-being and grow their confidence and communication skills.
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OU Lecturer in Reading for Pleasure, Co-founder of the Spark! School Book Awards, Independent English Advisor, book lover & mum
Author of #WordPower, Lecturer in RfP for @OpenUni_RfP, Interested in reader identity and language development, Secondary school governor @The_UKLA
Professor of Education (Literacy), The Open University. Fellow EA, RSA and AcSS. Committed to social justice and reading for pleasure.
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