Reading for Pleasure

This full day conference for secondary teachers will give strategies to engage students with reading, techniques to put pleasure into books, and help to maintain the reading habit. Keynote speakers include Charlie Higson, best selling author of the new Young Bond series, of particular interest to teachers wanting to engage boys with books, and Guardian Children's Books Editor, Julia Eccleshare.

They are joined by the dynamic Prue Goodwin of the Reading and Language Information Centre, Reading University, who will give the inside story on reading development; Ian Dodds, senior librarian, who makes libraries popular and fun, and Guardian journalist and author Sarfraz Mansoor on growing up with Islam, libraries and Bruce Springsteen. There will be workshops in sharing good practice in poetry, the right book for the right pupil, how to work with libraries and what books can do for young people's emotional development.

The conference costs £58.75 (£50 + VAT) - which includes lunch and resources. We expect demand for this conference to be high. For booking form please click here

For further information, please email newsroom.education@guardian.co.uk
or telephone 020 7886 9806/7.