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Reading Connects
Building whole-school reading communities


Department for children,schools and families
Reading Connects is delivered by the NLT on behalf of the DCSF
Resources

In this section of the website you will find downloadable versions of the Reading Connects materials. It also provides signposting to useful resources that other organisations have produced to promote reading for pleasure in schools. These are divided up into the Reading Connects categories. If you can't find the resources you are searching for, try looking on the main site's Resources for professionals page.

Reading Connects resources


Whole-school vision, policy and strategy
Reading promotion
Reading events and groups
School library
Special interest groups
Transition
Family involvement
Community involvement


Reading Connects resources

- Handbook (primary and secondary)

- Family Involvement Toolkit

- Introductory booklet (including audit - primary and secondary)

- Logos

- Downloadable materials

- Downloadable materials for the 2008 National Year of Reading

- Powerpoint presentations

- Films

- Questionnaires

- Celebrating Reading Connects magazine pdf (2005)

- Templates for schools created by Reading Connects schools


Whole-school vision, policy and strategy

The Reading Connects audit - primary audit or secondary audit


Reading promotion

- Reading Champions read posters

- Booklists, book clubs and reading ideas for children

- Resources for primary and secondary schools promoting reading for pleasure


- Publishers promoting reading for pleasure

- Organisations supporting children's books and reading


- Organisations supporting schools & after-school activity

- Poetry

- Storytellers and authors (.pdf)

Reading events and groups

- Annual reading events calendar

- Children's reading groups
School library

- Resources for school libraries


- Updates on school libraries, literacy and reading



Special interest groups

Gender

- Gender and literacy resources

EAL and multicultural resources

- Literacy resources for schools and children


- Literacy resources for families


- Literacy resources for local authorities

- Organisations specialising in multicultural and dual language texts

Gifted and Talented
- Supporting gifted and talented children

Special educational needs
- Supporting children with special educational needs


Transition

 


Family involvement

- Resources for supporting children's reading and learning (family-facing)


- Resources for family literacy and parental involvement work (practitioner facing)


Community involvement

Public library

 

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