This scenario looks at Core Skill A2: Listening well and knowing when to make suggestions for young people's reading.
You are a library assistant in a busy public library. It's the summer holidays and the Summer Reading Challenge is underway. Children are streaming into the library, with parents, brothers and sisters and friends, to talk about their books and get their stickers to put in their collectors' wallets. It's busy and buzzy as a family group of three children comes in to talk about their reading. What steps do you take to give this group some undivided reading attention?
Think what you might do and choose one of the strategies below which is closest to what you are thinking.
What steps do you take to give this group some undivided reading attention?