This is a reading for pleasure assembly best used to promote reading in your school.

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.

A selection of books are recommended for Year7 pupils through to Year 13 to encourage their love of History and reading. For display purposes. Pupils are encouraged to add their favourite historic-based books to the list. A simple addition to your efforts of improving literacy in History.

Add these to your classroom to promote reading for pleasure and for children (and staff) to share what they are currently reading! Would create a fantastic display. 7 colours included… blue red green purple pink yellow orange

This 27-slide presentation has been carefully crafted with the teacher and student in mind. On a few slides, there is a one-sentence note that will help teachers know what point needs to be made. Also, slides have been designed to be aesthetically rich, informative, but still streamlined. I never want the teacher or student to feel overwhelmed with text. That being said, one of the strengths of this presentation is that quotes are taken from two online sources that both students and teachers can access: Principle Doctrines by Epicurus Letter to Menoeceus Essentially, Epicureanism is one of the two main schools of thought (philosophy) during the Hellenistic period of Ancient Greece. The other is Stoicism. Epicureanism is a philosophy of life that is hedonistic, yet this focus on pleasure is not what most people in our contemporary society would imagine. Epicurus’s treatment of pleasure is much richer and nuanced than what many would think.

This is a stunning and eye-catching one-sided A4 portrait poster. It showcases all ten Taylor Swift albums alongside an accompanying new young adult book, which is similar in themes. This eye-catching visual poster can help encourage reading for pleasure with your Key Stage 4+ students (ages 13+) and spark conversations about new books. Ideal for your school library, classrooms or even reception to emphasise to parents and visitors that your school has a prominent culture of reading. Would work really well in the music department too!

This resource is designed to promote reading for pleasure with A Level English Literature students, and to help them track their progress. The booklet contains: A list of suggested reads organised by genre. These books are selected to challenge students in their reading for pleasure, pushing them to look beyond Percy Jackson and Colleen Hoover and to read both contemporary and classic fiction. Each suggested read is accompanied by a short blurb. A “book tower challenge” which aims to motivate students to read 10 books during an academic year. Pages for students to record their reflections on each read. The booklet is created in Powerpoint and can be edited. Once you have tweaked it, I suggest you save it as a PDF file and print in A5.

A Prince and Princess have had a baby and need to grapple with contradictions between their impulses to protect their privilege but also honour their politics and hopes for the future. They’re visited by the classic Fairy Goodparents, all keen to shower the baby with great gifts. Fun to perform and read.

This resource covers the integral, surface and deep features of Guided Reading. It contains full-on activities and assessments to cover the skills of literacy in an easy, structured, cover-your-bases system. It includes everything you need to get going with Guided Reading in your classroom. This Resource Includes: 1. A Detailed Lesson Plan 2. Frequently Asked Questions 3. Guided Reading Steps 4. Assessment Rubrics 5. Worksheets (4 Exercises) Learning Objectives: • Explore steps of a guided reading lesson. • Read with focus and concentration to infer specific information. • Read silently for pleasure and knowledge. • Enhance vocabulary and sentence structure. Teachers can use this to enhance the reading skills of the learners, especially the technique needed to read with focus and concentration to infer specific information.

This stunning and visual poster is in an A4 size. Colourful and attractive, this poster pitches famous modern musicians against young adult author legends. Most popular songs and books are listed and have been put against each other as they are similar in song/book style or theme as well as author’s own personality and identity. It is double sided or can be printed side by side and aims to attract reluctant readers, who may be more familiar with music artists in popular culture. It is intended to promote authors who students may not recognise or appreciate, helping to encourage reading for pleasure. Suitable for Key Stage 4+ (ages 13+). Ideal for your school library, classrooms or reception to emphasise that your school has a profound culture of reading. Perfect for English and Music departments too!

Supporting worksheet for Peter Ackroyd’s book - Tudors: The History of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I This resource is to support a wider/extended reading programme for either the new GCSE 9-1 specification

A reading exercise to demonstrate reading for gist. The stimulus material has been adapted from an authentic resource. This can be used as a starter or plenary with the aim to point pupil in the direction of topical resources so as to read for pleasure.

This lesson is perfect for new and lower ability GCSE learners and E3-L1 Functional Skills learners who need to improve their ability to identify and discuss language and structure features. Using an extract from The Book Thief, the lesson includes comprehension questions about a video clip and the extract. The lesson builds on annotation skills before students complete a final GCSE style question. This pack includes: A fully differentiated powerpoint Reading comprehension worksheet Extract This lesson is aimed at GCSE and Functional Skills learners and aims to help them improve their annotation skills while embedding reading for pleasure and historical knowledge. It is based on the Edexcel GCSE but can be used for a range of English Language learners.

Millionaires Row Display Board Promote reading for pleasure by displaying photos of students that have read over a million words set includes (all A4 pages enlarge/reduce as you require) Millionaires Row letters photo frames to glue student’s photos to editable frame to add student’s photo’s to - this enables you to print frame and photo as one piece (instructions included) stars to add number of words read if in excess of a million

One English teacher threw away her class sets of reading books and came up with a revolutionary new canon to inspire reluctant readers. Working with her school librarian, she sought out teachable, modern books that were connected to the curriculum but were also exciting to read and relevant to students’ lives. These seventy-two books are her suggestions for transforming English lessons and getting students reading for pleasure. But don’t take her word for it that this approach works. Try it yourself. Use this poster as a starting point to create a new canon of your own.

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Help high school students extend beyond basic plot recall and develop close reading analysis skills with this set of high-order questions covering chapter 5 of Animal Farm by George Orwell. Delivered in Word Document and PDF formats, this worksheet saves English Language Arts teachers valuable time at home without sacrificing rigor in the classroom. An answer key is provided. By completing this exercise, students will: Identify what the text states explicitly and implicitly Analyze the nature of relationships between and among characters Explain the symbolism behind Mollie’s disappearance Make logical inferences about the author’s intent Explore the motif of forbidden pleasures Discern the greater significance of the windmill debate Make logical inferences about character motivations Isolate an example of figurative language Articulate how Napoleon demonstrates disdain for free speech Identify and explain an example of situational irony in the context of the chapter Write about literature with clarity and precision Justify written responses with reasoning and/or textual evidence

Here are the issues we face: Reading for pleasure at the age of 15 is a strong factor in determining future social mobility. Indeed, it has been revealed as the most important indicator of the future success of the child. - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2013 Books in the home 'boost children's education' (Sunday Telegraph 21 May 2010 ); Reading as teenager gets you a better job (Daily Mirror, 08 Apr 2011 ); Reading for pleasure 'boosts pupils' results in maths' (Times Online, 26 Mar 2010). So, here's a scheme for whole school literacy... designed around making links between texts to provide both progression and access to multiple genres and writing types (in a single reading route). There are 15 reading routes (see Map.pdf). Students choose what they wish to read and use the Reading Logs to record their adventure (see Logs.pdf). There are two parts to the logs, i) an entire route, and ii) a log for each book read. Teachers or a nominated lead should interview students upon completion of the first few chapters (for low abilities), or the entire book, as authentication. I have included Reading-Prompts.pdf and Reading-and-Extension-Questions.pdf for students who have difficulty engaging, comprehending and reflecting on their reading. There is also Iceberg-Thinking.pdf for asking students questions about the texts they've read. These three documents were adapted by me from others work and are available for free elsewhere in my shop. I have freely bundled them here as extra useful resources to support your scheme. Certificates (Certificates.pdf) should then be printed as A5 and inserted into a cheap clipframe for presentation to the student as a mark of their achievement.

Paired reading is a good way for parents/ carers to help improve their children's reading skills and is also ideal as part of a peer tutoring scheme. These evaluations encourage pupils, parents, teachers and tutors to reflect on the paired reading exercise and the progress that has been made.