Alice Visser-Furay is the Literacy Coordinator and an English & History teacher at a secondary comprehensive in Oxfordshire; she has an MA in Children’s Literature and has lived in 6 countries, including the UK since 2005. Alice has developed a national reputation for her work in building a reading culture, supporting struggling readers and developing academic reading. She is leading the National College of Education’s Level 5 Apprenticeship called ‘Building a Reading School’ and she speaks at various educational conferences. For booklists, resources, links to reading advocates and research plus more, see her website www.readingforpleasureandprogress.com or follow her on Twitter: @AVisserFuray