An assembly for KS3 and KS4 on promoting reading for pleasure. It includes facts on the benefits of reading for pleasure, quotes from famous people who credit their success to reading, a range of books recommendations and even a short video from Stormzy on why reading is so important!
A comprehensive booklet containing six different extracts from both fiction and non fiction texts. All have questions for students to answer alongside them. Can be used as a reading comprehension activity, homework booklet or as a reading strategy within lessons.
Extracts included are below:
Pole to Pole by Michael Palin
The Pet
The Storm
Chocolate
The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
I designed this for a whole school assembly. It is a quiz for Children versus the adults and is differentiated accordingly. It contains fun picture rounds, such as which character enjoys this food? Guess the book, what’s the film ( based on a book), multiple choice rounds and a tie breaker about the seven dwarfs.
The assembly also begins with interesting facts about well known books and facts about how reading can be good for you! It ends with a beautiful poem about reading by Julia Donaldson.
We had a panel of children and a panel of adults at the front and asked for help from the audience. We even invited parents and governors and it was very successful.
This was used for World Book Day but could used for a range of contexts and is suitable for KS2 and 3. Answers are included.
A booklet filled with first chapters on amazing teen books. Aimed at KS3 to promote reading for pleasure, could be used in tutor time, English classes or for home learning.
A booklet full of short stories for your students to enjoy. The table at the front of the booklet allows students to review and rate the stories that they have read.
This booklet it designed to encourage students to engage with Reading for Pleasure in their own way, while fostering creativity, expansive vocabulary and inference skills.
Ideal for KS3, either pick which tasks you wish to complete or allow students to dictate their own learning by selecting the tasks most suited to their books.
To promote reading for pleasure. Each child has a tube map with their library bar code, name and class on.
They also have a tube map with “lines” to follow. Each line has a range of books to read. They also have a theme and these are different for each year group.
Once the child has completed a line, you may want to reward them. Posters are included of the author and title of the book for each year group.
This KS4 tutor time reading booklet is great to use during tutor time or as a starter activity during English lessons. This is aimed at reading for pleasure and contains extracts to get students talking and hooked on reading.
Prioritising your own reading for pleasure may seem like the last thing on your to-do list, but did you know that reading for as little as 6 minutes a day can reduce stress levels by a whopping 68% (Lewis, 2009)
As educators, we need that kind of stress-relief in our lives!
These trackers are a great way to help keep you accountable to your own reading targets. Each month includes as many items to colour as days of the month. They deliberately do not have any targets set on them because only you will know what is achievable and sensible for you. As well as being a great resource for you, you can also use them with your students to help foster a love of reading.
Here are some ideas to get you started:
A set amount of minutes per day, e.g 6 minutes
An amount of pages, e.g 10 pages a day
A chapter a day
Assigning a colour for how you felt each time you read
Don’t forget, reading for pleasure encompasses more than books! It also includes other formats such as audio books and graphic novels.
You can colour, doodle or fill the sheets however you choose. These are not intended to be an additional chore to add on to your to-do list, but a fun way to unwind and celebrate your love of reading.
Let’s kick-start your reading for pleasure habit!
Use these trackers personally, or to help your students in class to monitor and celebrate their reading targets. Super flexible and easy to use.
A booklet full to the brim with dytopian short stories for students to enjoy! This can be used during tutor/ form time reading, literacy intervention and dystopian stories studies.
A rolling powerpoint of 6 weekly reading lessons that introduce students to new vocabulary each week. Each lesson contains one piece of useful analytical vocabulary, e.g. juxtaposition and one piece of vocabulary they may come across in their GCSE texts; alongside silent reading activities.
A comprehensive collection of posters to immerse students in thematic and topical extracts across non-fiction and fiction. Each month has a collection of extracts linked to the day/event. Designed to be spread across the school, especially in canteens and common areas in menu holders, hence the name of ‘Snack Bite Reading’.
An editable “Me as a Reader” template profile is a creative, personal way to get children to reflect on what they think about themselves as a reader.
The template includes:
My favourite author:
My favourite genre:
When do I like to read?
My favourite places to read:
My to be read pile:
My most memorable reading experience:
My future reading goal:
My favourite characters:
How I rate reading:
Hope it’s helpful! :)
This resource is a Power Point of key texts for reading for pleasure from EYFS - Year 6. It shows the text’s front cover, title and any key theme / unit links.
**“Reading for Pleasure is the entitlement of every child, yet how can we foster readers’ desire and engagement?” (Ourfp.org) **
This document was created by teachers who have selected a range of key texts from fiction to non-fiction and poetry for every year group. This ensures that children are exposed to a range of high-quality texts each year!
I have created an Underground Map linking similar fiction books together to help with reading for pleasure in Key Stage 2. For example, if a child likes reading David Walliams, they can follow the “Funny” line to find other similar books. The lines cross at certain points as well to encourage children to read other genres!
I have also included the original Word document, so you can edit and change it!
Place reading at the heart of welcoming your class back to school with a range of flexible ideas and activities that begin with ice-breakers to refresh speaking and listening skills, and then introduce a range of easy-to- deliver activities plus a suggested read with discussion questions to encourage book talk and reading response.
In addition to these Key Stage 2 activities you’ll find further resources for Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 3 in the National Literacy Trust Resource bank on our website.
My Reading Journey
Students stick this worksheet in the front of their exercise books or homework diaries.
It can be used to keep a record of their reading and encourage them to reflect on the texts they have read.
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