EMC CPD Webinar: Bringing the ‘Fiction Effect’ into Classrooms
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Availability -
Places available
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Price - £45 per place
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Location - Online
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Duration - 2-3.30pm
The ‘fiction effect’ is a term used to describe the finding that young people who read fiction (as opposed to those who only read other text types) do better at school compared to those who don’t. This webinar explores how to bring the fiction effect into classrooms by teaching novels and short stories in ways that focus on the thinking skills and processes inherent to reading fiction. Specifically, it will explore:
- Reading novels and short stories as an unfolding process
- Prioritising big picture thinking
- Building from personal to critical response
- Prioritising what is important about reading fiction.
This course will be recorded but attendees will not be audible or visible.
See Booking Details for how to take advantage of our 2 for 1 offer.
EMC's Webinar Packages
This webinar is included in EMC's Webinar Packages. For details of the package and to order for your department, click the links below:
- EMC Webinar Package Autumn 2025
- EMC Annual Webinar Package.
See 'Further Details' for how to join this webinar if your department has bought a package.
Online, via Zoom. Details of how to join will be sent before the session.
- If relevant, course materials will be sent the day before the course in the email with your joining instructions. Please either print these out or have them available on screen during the session.
- After the session you will receive the PowerPoint presentation and any resources used on the course.
- After the session you will receive a link to register to watch a recording of this session on-demand until 31st December 2025.
How to join this course if your department has bought the webinar package
- To join the live session, register using the registration link sent to the departmental key contact. You can register to join the live session right up to the start of the webinar. Use the unique link sent by [email protected] to join the webinar on the day.
- To watch the recording on-demand, register using the on-demand registration link sent to the departmental key contact the day after the live session. This email will also include the PowerPoint presentation and any additional resources. On-demand access expires 31st December 2025.
I really enjoyed the session - I always really like the EMC's teaching strategies and think it is a very inspiring approach to the subject, for both teachers and students. Rachel Stubbs, Heathside School, What We Teach When We Teach Novels (at KS3), Summer 2025
I loved the way that conventional ways of teaching a novel were challenged and that we were given new fresh approaches. Hannah Doncow, Beech Lodge School, What We Teach When We Teach Novels (at KS3), Autumn 2023
Andrew McCallum
Andrew McCallum is Director of the English and Media Centre. Prior to that he ran a PGCE course in secondary English, and previously he taught for 15 years in London schools, spending most of that time at Acland Burghley School in Camden. He holds a doctorate in education, is author of Creativity and Learning in Secondary English (Routledge) and writes regularly for NATE's Teaching English magazine. If asked to name the EMC publication he's most proud of having worked on, it would be a three-way contest between Iridescent Adolescent, Diverse Shorts and Write On.
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Stephen Dilley
Stephen has spent the last 16 years teaching English; he is currently Head of English at Kendrick School in Reading and was an EMC Associate Teacher for 2024-25. He is passionate about sharing diverse texts and, as part of the UKLA Book Awards team and the Just Imagine review panel, he reads 100+ new children's and YA books each year. He has also led an OU/UKLA Teacher Reading Group for local primary and secondary teachers, and is the English link governor at a local primary school. Stephen has written multiple articles for emagazine on authors including E. M. Forster, Kazuo Ishiguro, Alice Walker and Bernardine Evaristo.EMC's Webinar Packages
This webinar is included in EMC's Webinar Packages. For details of the package and to order for your department, click the links below:
See 'Further Details' for how to join this webinar if your department has bought a package.
Booking this course as a 'one-off' purchase.
- Bookings for this course will close at 8am (London, UK) on Tuesday 4th November, or when capacity is reached, whichever is the sooner.
- This course is part of our 2 for 1 offer
- Book a place on this course and you’ll be sent a voucher code entitling you to book a further place on the same course for a colleague at your school. Your code will be emailed to you as soon as we have received your booking.
- Please note: bookings for this course close at 8am on Tuesday 4th November. The 2nd free place must be booked before the closing date, so please make sure you give yourself enough time!
- Your voucher can only be redeemed online and is only eligible against this course.
(Any issues please email Lucy.)
- This course must be booked and paid for online. Payment by invoice is not available for this session. Please note: your fee is non-refundable.
- To book this course you must be signed into one of the following accounts (registering an account first if you need to):
- UK Trust/Academy – Head Office (purchasing)
- UK Educator Admin (purchasing)
- UK Teacher – Home Address Only
- UK Private Individual
- Overseas
- If you have a UK Educator Standard account you will not be able to book the course. Sign in to your account and add it to your Wishlist. See the list of people able to book courses at your organisation by clicking ‘My Account’, then ‘Our Admin Users’.
- Click 'Book now’ (right-hand column).
- Add the number of places you need.
- Fill in the names and email addresses of the people attending. To secure your place, please make sure you add the attendee details immediately and checkout within 24 minutes. Otherwise the booking will expire and you will have to begin the process again.
- Click submit and then Go to basket.
- Checkout. (Payment by invoice is not available for this session.)
- IF TAKING ADVANTAGE OF OUR 2 FOR 1 OFFER, PLEASE WAIT TO BE SENT YOUR CODE BEFORE BOOKING YOUR 2ND PLACE.
- Once you have booked your place, you will see a screen indicating your order has been successful. You may want to make a note of your order number. The person making the booking and the attendee will receive an automatic acknowledgement of your booking.
- Instructions on how to join the course (including Zoom login details) will be sent from [email protected] for the first time on the day bookings close. Reminders, including any course handouts, will be sent the day before and one-hour before the course. Please check your junk or promotions folder. Still no luck? Email us before 1pm on the course day [email protected].
Cancellation and amendments
- Afternoon and twilight webinars must be paid for by card at the time of booking.
- The fee is non-refundable.
- However, the webinars are recorded. Anyone who books a place on the course will be sent a link to register to access the recording of the webinar until 31st December 2025, regardless of whether they attended live.