 Click on the sub-headings below to find out more about Reading Connects. If you have any further enquiries, visit the contact us page of this site.
What is Reading Connects?
Who is Reading Connects for?
The Reading Connects website
What are the benefits of signing up to Reading Connects?
What do schools think about Reading Connects?
Reading Connects member organisations
Reading
Connects, a DCSF-funded National Literacy Trust initiative,
supports primary and secondary schools in developing their own whole-school
reading culture. Reading Connects is more of an ethos, than a project. It encourages schools to embed a holistic creative approach to promoting reading for pleasure into their policies, vision and good practice, integrating the following elements:
- promoting reading for pleasure at the heart of the school's policy to raise standards and promote enjoyment in learning
- involving all members of staff, including catering staff, the caretaker, governors and parent groups in promoting reading
- working in partnership with pupils' families to encourage reading in the home
- linking up with the local community and other schools to develop a local coordinated approach to promoting reading for pleasure
- making reading as visible as possible within the school environment
- learning from and sharing their good practice with the Reading Connects network of schools and organisations
Reading Connects target audience is principally primary and secondary schools.
However, other organisations that can join the Reading Connects network include: supplementary schools, sporting organisations, post-16 colleges, nursery schools, pre-schools and Children's Centres.
Furthermore, we also encourage primary and secondary strategy consultants, School Library Services and colleagues from LAs to sign up as Reading Connects partners and join the Reading Connects network. To find out more about becoming a Reading Connects partner, visit the partner pages of this website.
 The
Reading Connects website is free to use and can be accessed
by everyone. All schools are offered the tools they need to get started on developing a whole-school approach to reading for pleasure or build on existing good practice. It features practical tried-and-tested ideas, resources, case studies and also gives you the opportunity to find out about Reading Connects in your local authority. As the Reading Connects network continues to grow, so does the website, so keep an eye on the What's new section on the front page for updates and news.
In addition to just using the website, schools are encouraged to sign up and
become a Reading Connects school.
In each authority Reading Connects has a network of local authority partners who also support schools in building a whole-school reading community.
 The
right to call yourself a Reading Connects school and be a
part of a national initiative
Schools
each receive a Reading Connects certificate and a hard copy
of the Reading Connects handbook and family involvement toolkit
Access to the Reading Connects logo
The opportunity to become part of the Reading Connects network and create your own blog
Ongoing support from Reading Connects
Find out how to join Reading Connects today.
Visit
our quotes page and find out what schools and local authority partners think about being part of Reading Connects.
When Reading Connects was created, it involved an important consultation process, with a large number number of organisations in the field of education and literacy. These organisations continue to meet three times a year to discuss the development of the initiative. Find out more information about the Reading Connects member organisations.
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