{"id":287,"date":"2022-11-17T10:15:29","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T10:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/ready2read\/?p=287"},"modified":"2024-07-04T12:38:40","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T11:38:40","slug":"parent-book-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/ready2read\/parent-book-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Parent book club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]This project was funded by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news\/2021\/University-News\/Community\/PR855952\">Reading Community Fund<\/a> in partnership with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnsykesfoundation.org\/\">John Sykes Foundation<\/a>. From January to July 2022, we ran a book group for parents in Whitley. The group met once a month to discuss a book that they had chosen. They read six books in total and were able to keep a copy of each one. The books they chose included <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waterstones.com\/book\/room\/emma-donoghue\/9781447276364\">Room by Emma Donoghue<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waterstones.com\/book\/the-hate-u-give\/angie-thomas\/9781406372151\">The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas<\/a>. Members are continuing with their book group using the Reading Libraries <a href=\"https:\/\/images.reading.gov.uk\/2020\/09\/Book_Groups.pdf\">book groups scheme<\/a>. Many of the parents also attended the storybook reading sessions too.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Research team: <\/strong>Prof Holly Joseph and Dr Daisy Powell[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;288&#8243; img_size=&#8221;medium&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The research team ran a book group for parents in the Whitley area to promote a love of reading. The group met once a month to discuss a book that they had chosen. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":288,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[12],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":"","source_text":"","source_url":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/ready2read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/ready2read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/ready2read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/ready2read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/ready2read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/ready2read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":417,"href":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/ready2read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions\/417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/ready2read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/ready2read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/ready2read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/ready2read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/ready2read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}