Enjoying Reading

Welcome to Enjoying Reading

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What is Enjoying Reading?

Enjoying Reading is a coordinated approach to supporting young readers through a partnership between schools, school libraries, school library services and public libraries. 

'Children’s enjoyment of reading is critical to their life chances, but schools alone can’t crack this. The Department for Children, Schools and Families believes more joined up working between schools and libraries can make a big difference and is funding the Enjoying Reading initiative to provide inspiration, ideas and practical support. The National Year of Reading is the perfect time to start to strengthen this alliance'

Jim Knight MP, Minister of State for Schools and Learners

Funded by the Department for Children, Schools and Families, the Enjoying Reading website and resources define how the teaching community, public libraries, school libraries and schools library services can work together to motivate children to read for pleasure and purpose.

Want to work in partnership with your local public library? Find your nearest library here

New on this site! Find out how South Tyneside Libraries have used 'Booked Up' (Word 372kb) to engage with students and staff at one of their local secondary schools to promote reading for pleasure by making them aware of their inspiring teenage book collections. Find out more about Booked Up (Word 26kb).

New on this site! Download the latest resources for using the Summer Reading Challenge with Year 7 or with Key Stage 2

If you have ideas for making school & library partnerships work, please let us know about them through our feedback page.

If you would like to contribute a case study or resource to the Enjoying Reading website, you can do this through our submit content page.