Middle Years students Reading programme, Library, Wide Reading Diagnostic assessment - survey your students to get to know their reading interests. Use this data to assist you in helping students find suitable reading material. Encourage students to track their reading using the reading log. Updating their progress can help you to see their reading habits. A great activity to start the year or any reading programme. Available as an editable Word document. You can edit the survey to gather the data that you need or customise it to your preferred genres and text type. Printable Middle school Secondary classroom colour colourful Individual

Scaffold a brainstorm of the features of the mystery, fantasty, Horror, action and science fiction genres. Individual or group work printable. Use as a diagnostic assessment tool or a summative assessment tool. Fiction genres are important for reading comprehension and writing. This could also be used to examine film genres. Best printed on A3 paper. Coloured, bright and engaging. Can be used to display student work in your classroom. A great alternative to butcher’s paper.

Independent reading assignment for pairs to develop literacy, reading strategies and dialogic learning. Promote reading independence. Enable students to select wide reading novels that suit their reading level and interest. Engage students in reading. Four different options. Print as a booklet that students can work on offline while they read and discuss. Word document that you can customise and edit. Adapt to your learners and needs.

A scaffolded approach to reading a chosen novel over four weeks. Activities are designed to reinforce reading strategies. Word documents. Fully customise and edit this document to suit the needs of your learners, students or your course content. Students can type directly into the worksheet and can upload it to your learning management system (LMS). Can be used for literature, English, Library or other reading classes.