Reading for fun with World Book Day

About this episode

Georgina discusses reading for pleasure with Kate Sayer from World Book Day, exploring key principles for fostering literacy in classrooms.

In this episode, Georgina is joined by Kate Sayer, Education Specialist at the World Book Day charity and former primary teacher, whose career has centred on supporting children’s literacy through schools, arts organisations and family engagement. Kate explores the charity’s six principles for reading for pleasure and why they matter so much in today’s classrooms. She discusses the role of teacher knowledge, the power of choice, how to build genuine reading cultures and the importance of posi...

People in this episode

Host: Georgina

Guest: Kate Sayer

Topics covered

• reading for pleasure
• literacy
• education
• teacher knowledge
• reading cultures

Keywords

• World Book Day
• literacy
• reading culture
• education
• teacher knowledge

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: World Book Day