Love your library

Make library lessons fun, and inspire your students to keep reading for pleasure, with this engaging collection of book-based activities, challenges and lesson ideas

Tes Resources Team

School library for reading for pleasure and reading activities

Promote reading for pleasure with these hand-picked library lessons and activity ideas

The next few weeks could be a great time to rediscover your school or class library and get your students to explore new books and authors. With its variety of genres and subject areas, a library is undoubtedly one of the finest resources for promoting reading for pleasure. We’ve brought together a collection of inspiring lesson and activity ideas to help both you and your students fall in love with books.

Reading challenges and activities

How to build a reading culture in your school
scottishbooktrust

How to build a reading culture in your school

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Learn more about building and sustaining a reading culture in your school including supporting reading for pleasure, celebrating reading achievements, being a reading role model and reading across the curriculum. This resource will also take you through Scottish Book Trust's free schools programmes ...
Fun reading activities, games and clubs
scottishbooktrust

Fun reading activities, games and clubs

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This resource gathers some of our favourite activities, games and clubs to make books and reading fun! Learn about how to run Book Jenga, book speed dating or a readathon. All of these ideas are adaptable based on the age and context of the children you work with and are designed to prompt discussio...
Reading Challenges
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Reading Challenges

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This cards can be used to help engage children in the the book they are reading and helps to see whether they understand what they are reading.
Reading Tube Map - Reading for Pleasure
Upat1

Reading Tube Map - Reading for Pleasure

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Read Harry Potter and don't know what to read next? Mad about David Walliams but need to branch out? Look no further, perfect for KS3-KS4. Includes: * A Popular Author Map (Michael Morpurgo, Jaqueline Wilson etc.) * A Popular Genres Map (Dystopian, Detective, Romance etc.) * A Popular Series (How ...
100 Books Reading Challenge- Bookshelf Display
coolclassroom

100 Books Reading Challenge- Bookshelf Display

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This is a hugely successful, tried and tested tool for encouraging your class, year group or school to enjoy reading and to celebrate the completion of books. Once a child has completed their book, they grab a book end, decorate with the title of their book etc and stick it onto the bookshelf. On...

Library lesson ideas

Library Activity Worksheets - Search the Shelves!
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Library Activity Worksheets - Search the Shelves!

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5 library activity worksheets designed to get students searching the library shelves and learn their way around a library. Each sheet is a short activity to complement other activities a class does while in the library. Each sheet has two identical worksheet activities for making photocopying more...
Library Challenge Cards
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Library Challenge Cards

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These Library Challenge cards were made for my class library, but they could be used in a school library as well. The idea was just to get the children excited about reading and properly engaged with the books, and they ve really enjoyed working through the activities an added bonus bein...
Year 7 Library Lesson Reading Journal
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Year 7 Library Lesson Reading Journal

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A ready made journal which will encourage students in years 6-8 to read on a regular basis and respond to the texts they have read. A questionnaire at the beginning will give teachers a sense of the student's reading culture. Each lesson students set a target for reading and when they have complete...
Library Resource
K Pope

Library Resource

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This task is aimed at developing pupil confidence when exploring that vast amount of books available to them in schools libraries. This is a fun way to expand pupil knowledge of the books available to them, whilst encouraging a positive library etiquette.
Library books exploration lesson/s
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Library books exploration lesson/s

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A useful resource to use to get pupils exploring books from different genres and develop an idea of their own preferences. Lasts 2/3 lessons. (this can be used not for genres, just for books you have chosen for them to explore) Set up 5/6 books on each table (can be more or less depending on your ...
Book review Mind Map
HJames4

Book review Mind Map

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This is a blank mind map worksheet for creating a book review. Prints on A4, best photocopied up to A3 size. Pupils fill in boxes with brief descriptions as prompted for story characters, draw and label the elements of the storyline, tick boxes to show the genre and their opinions in brief, fill in...
Book Review Template
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Book Review Template

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A book review template for pupils to use once they've finished reading a book. Can be kept in a review box in the reading corner/area for other children to use when picking their next book.
Exploring fiction genres (library lesson)
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Exploring fiction genres (library lesson)

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This lesson is perfect for a lesson in a school library to get students to think about opening their minds to new genres. To prepare for the lesson you need 7 tables. Each table must include 4-7 books in the following genres: fantasy crime realistic historical fantasy action and adventure horror ...