Reading Lessons - An English Teacher's Love Letter to the Books that Shape Us

She demonstrates how a generous and attentive teacher is able to wrestle meaning and relevance ... Nothing is more valuable than teaching a subject that encourages young minds to push beyond the confines created by the algorithms of social media, which is where her pupils live when they are not underlining bits of text in coloured Biro. Unlike any Stem subject, “doing English” requires young readers to enter imaginatively into the lives of others. And that, for “Miss”, remains the greatest transferable skill of all.>

About the author

Carol Atherton has taught English since 1996 and is currently Head of English at a secondary school in Lincolnshire. Originally from Merseyside, she read English at Oxford before doing a PGCE at Manchester Metropolitan University and a PhD at the University of Nottingham. She is a Fellow of the English Association and a member of the National Association for the Teaching of English. Atherton has written for a range of publications aimed at teachers and students, and she co-authored Teaching English Literature 16–19 (Routledge, 2013). Reading Lessons is her first trade publication.

Product details

• Authors: Carol Atherton, Atherton Carol
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.03.2025
• EAN: 9780241629505
• ISBN: 978-0-241-62950-5
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 24 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Literature: general, reference works; Education, Memoirs, LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare, EDUCATION / Curricula, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Educators, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 21st Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Language teaching and learning, Literature: history and criticism