Ideas for good practice using the arts and libraries
A selection of projects focusing on basic skills or reading

Early Years

• Baby Rhymetime (libraries)
• Creating Together
• Pre-nursery library
• Storysacks: examples of local practice
• Start Singing - a museum initiative

Children

• LEAP (Literacy Early Action Project)
• MakeBelieve Arts
• Oakenrod community gardening project
• Polly's story - a museum initiative
• A Quiet Place
• Stories from the Web clubs
  

Parents

• Dadzone, South Cumbria
• The Early Writing Development Course
• Oakenrod community gardening project

Young people

• All Change music project
• Greenwich Arts Fusion
• Poeteknix
• Txt, Lies and Audiotape

Adults

• Art Into Literacy
• The Black Box Project (for offenders)
• Common Ground - recipe book project (Museum and Art Gallery Nuneaton)
• The Learning Zone (for homeless people)
• London Museums Club
• Words Without Frontiers (libraries)

Case Study

• Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service: Getting your hands on the past

Useful links

• Index of ideas for good practice
• The arts, media and literacy
• Arts, creative writing and poetry organisations
• Initiatives from the National Reading Campaign