Useful links!

Warwickshire Schools Library Service works with a wide range of schools, organisations and partners. We often visit and share their research and information to inform our own practice. Below are a range of useful links that we have found beneficial and we wanted to share them with you! They might be particularly useful for motivating and encouraging staff members that love reading are working within your school library or within the literacy curriculum.

Useful Websites

• A link to Warwickshire Public Libraries: http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/Libraries
• A great recommendation site for children’s books: http://www.lovereading4kids.co.uk/
• The UK’s leading independent children’s book magazine: http://booksforkeeps.co.uk/
• The National Literacy Trust: http://www.literacytrust.org.uk/schools_teaching
• Booktrust, encouraging children and families to get reading: http://www.booktrust.org.uk/
• Showcases best practice in UK libraries: http://heartoftheschool.edublogs.org/
• Improving all aspects of English Teaching in Primary Years: http://primaryenglished.co.uk/
• The SLA supports everyone involved with school libraries: www.sla.org.uk
• A national campaign to get all children reading well: http://readongeton.org.uk/
• Department for Education: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-education

Useful Resources

• Studying or teaching Shakespeare?  The Shakespeare Learning Zone can help: https://www.rsc.org.uk/shakespeare-learning-zone
• Book Chat: This resource comprises three short films and support materials to help parents, families and carers read books conversationally and creatively to children. https://researchrichpedagogies.org/research/supporting-rah/book-chat-reading-with-your-child
• The Free Resources section of the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE) website provides sample teaching sequences for year groups and links to other free resources: https://clpe.org.uk/clpe/free-resources  
• COVID-19 books to help children feel safe, connected, calm and hopeful: https://reading-well.org.uk/resources/4716 

National Book Awards

• The Yoto Carnegie Award Nominations for 2023: https://yotocarnegies.co.uk/the-yoto-carnegies/
• The Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2022: https://www.waterstones.com/the-waterstones-childrens-book-prize
• The Klaus Flugge Rize 2022: https://www.klausfluggeprize.co.uk/
• The Branford Bose Award 2022: https://branfordboaseaward.org.uk/2022-winners/
• The Federation of Children's Books Groups Award 2022: https://fcbg.org.uk/childrens-book-award-2022/
• The UKLA Book Awards 2022: https://ukla.org/news/outstanding-winners-announced-for-the-unique-awards-from-teachers-2/
• The CLPE Poetry Award 2022: https://clpe.org.uk/poetry/CLiPPA
• The Scottish Teenage Book Prize 2022: https://www.scottishbooktrust.com/reading-and-stories/scottish-teenage-book-prize/scottish-teenage-book-prize-2022-winner
• The Blue Peter Book Awards 2022: https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/watch/bp-book-awards
• The Little Rebel's Award 2022: https://littlerebels.org/#:~:text=Congratulations%20to%20Sarah%20Hagger%2DHolt,Award%20for%20Radical%20Children's%20Fiction.

National Curriculum

• National Curriculum information: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statutory-guidance-schools#curriculum

Useful Articles and Reports

• Improving education attainment through school libraries and librarians: http://www.cilip.org.uk/sites/default/files/documents/BeatingHeartoftheSchool.pdf
• Literature Review: The impact of reading for pleasure and empowerment: http://readingagency.org.uk/news/The%20Impact%20of%20Reading%20for%20Pleasure%20and%20Empowerment.pdf
• Why Reading for Pleasure Matters:
  https://www.teachers.org.uk/files/active/1/Reading-4-Pleasure-7225.pdf
• This is quite an old document now, but we still feel it has the right message and find it very inspiring! education.gov.uk/publications/eOrderingDownload/HMI-2426.doc
• The Power of Reading:
  http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/sites/default/files/images/The_Power_of_Reading.pdf
• Reading: The Next Steps, supporting higher standards in schools
  https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/409409/Reading_the_next_steps.pdf
• SLA leaflet for parents link on benefits of reading for pleasure: https://www.sla.org.uk/article/dawn-woods/reading-for-pleasure-leaflet/2116 
• Great School Libraries Report 2019: https://www.greatschoollibraries.org.uk/news
• Ofsted Report on: How reading in Secondary Schools improves grades and confidence, October 2022 https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/now-the-whole-school-is-reading-supporting-struggling-readers-in-secondary-school