1. Developing a Reading Outcomes Framework and Toolkit
Catherine Godward, June 2017

2. Areas to cover today The Reading Agency Framework and Toolkit:
An overview
Development
Your questions
Your view
In practice
Improvements

3. THE READING AGENCY

4. Inspire, Share, Celebrate

5. Framework and Toolkit AN OVERVIEW

6. Partners

7. What? An online and interactive:
Outcomes framework that maps the outcomes of reading for pleasure and empowerment drawn from available evidence:
Reading engagement
Health and wellbeing
Intellectual
Personal
Social
Evaluation toolkit that provides advice about how to use the framework and tools to measure the outcomes achieved (continually developed).

8. Scope Reading for pleasure and empowerment All ages and audiences
Reading for entertainment or self-cultivation, that is done through choice.
All ages and audiences
Emerging and confident readers, those in different settings.
All types of materials
Fiction, non-fiction, digital, print, picture books, comics, newspapers, audio books, listening to others read and shared reading.

9. Why? For individual organisations (incl. TRA):
Confidently measure the outcomes of reading for pleasure and empowerment programmes.
Gather evidence to drive improvement and
make the case for investment.
For the sector:
Enable national measures and indicators to be taken.
Add weight to evidence by coming together.
Efficiency savings/avoid duplication

10. Framework and Toolkit DEVELOPMENT

11. Five stages of development
Literature review
Draft framework
Consultation
Revised framework
Develop toolkit

12. Literature review
Identified key studies evaluating the impact of reading
Catalogued the outcomes of reading that emerge from the evidence, beyond literacy
Explored impact for a number of groups:
children/young people,
parents/carers,
adults, adults with health needs, adults with additional needs.
Report:

13. The Framework

14. The Toolkit IN PRACTICE

16. In the field
Book Aid International uses the toolkit and thinks it is “amazing”.
Literature Works included use of toolkit in live bids.
NPC (leading evaluation consultancy) has asked to recommend its use to clients.
Invited/successfully applied to present at conferences e.g. Edge, EU Read AGM, UKLA International, SLA.

17. Framework and Toolkit IMPROVEMENTS

18. Immediate Developments
Review of reading engagement outcome measures:
Prioritised widely used outcomes
New measures/quality assessment of all
TSIP, report in October 17
Pilot the toolkit in five real settings:
Accelerated reader programme for years 7-8 pupils
Reading Ahead in a college
Library programme for new parents and young carers
Author events for primary school children
Bookstart in a children’s centre
Gather feedback to inform future improvements

19. Discussion Your questions? Your view?
Do you see yourself using this Framework and Toolkit? If yes, how? If no, why not?
Comments/improvements:
Is the format clear, accessible?
What would you need to help you use it
e.g. additional resources, training, etc.?
Is anything missing?
Anything else?

20. Stay in touch/your view