Keep Up-To-Date With Reading
Do you want to keep up-to-date with reading?
Do you want to know the most current books your child may enjoy reading?
Meet 'The Reader Teacher'.
Scott Evans is a primary school teacher from South Wales who loves to read. He believes that every child can be a reader, and should experience the self-discovery and joy of reading, which means finding the right book for the right child at the right time.
As a child himself, he didn't read much fiction and he favoured non-fiction instead. However, he thinks this can be explained because of the lack of choice, variety, promotion, representation and awareness of children's literature out there compared to how it has vastly improved today - twenty years later.â
He believes we are currently living in a golden age of children's literature. However, with all this choice comes greater responsibility in ensuring that the choice is the correct one. Therefore, he has created his website to help children, parents, schools and teachers to get to know the books that will help their children to discover a love of reading.
He reads, reviews and recommends a range of children's literature on his website and YouTube channel, both called The Reader Teacher which are designed for teachers, schools, parents and children to find the best books.
Before training as a teacher, Scott Evans worked in local libraries and is passionate about the importance of school libraries. Scott has previously appeared on and written for the BBC discussing ideas on how to encourage a love of reading and raising children as readers.
He has worked with organisations such as Waterstones, BookTrust and Literature Wales, as well as with many leading and independent children’s books publishers to produce resources for teachers to use in the classroom.
Scott has also been a judge on the panels for the Blue Peter Book Awards, the Laugh Out Loud Book Awards (Lollies), the Branford Boase Award; the Read for Empathy Collection and the Wales Book of the Year Award.
See more on https://www.thereaderteacher.com/.
Do you need suggested book lists based on authors? Look here.
Would you like to know the 'Top Three' feature authors, illustrators, poets, teachers and special guests selecting and explaining their top three children's books about a theme link to their books, writing or of their choice? Look here.
Suggested Book Lists:
Lower Key Stage 2 (Year 3 and Year 4)
Upper Key Stage 2 (Year 5 and Year 6)
