This year is the National Year of Reading

Introduction

The National Year of Reading (NYOR) is a year-long celebration of reading, in all its forms. It aims to help build a greater national passion for reading in England – for children, families and adult learners alike. This is great news for supplementary schools because encouraging pupils to read books in English will stimulate their literacy, but also reading folk tales from their different cultures will give them access to a better understanding of where they have come from.

Here you will find links, resources and ideas on how you can encourage more of your pupils to read, and to show that reading is not only fundamental, but FUN also!
 

The NYR is being managed by a consortium of organisations committed to promoting reading, led by the National Literacy Trust and The Reading Agency, and on behalf of the DCSF. Click here to visit ContinYou’s own section on the National Year of reading for more resources.

Autumn reading challenge

This autumn the National Year of Reading is challenging schools to run activity which encourages broader forms of reading, using the monthly themes for inspiration. The monthly themes are:

September: You are what you read

October: Word of Mouth

November: Screen reads

December: Writing the future 

The winning primary and secondary schools will each win £2000 worth of Oxford University Press reading resources, plus two spot prizes of £500.  To take up the challenge and for more details, visit the National Year of Reading website.

To find out how ContinYou has llinked its projects to the National Year of Reading, download Read with ContinYou (PDF 895 KB). To find out how to incorporate reading into your breakfast club, and for reading activity ideas, download the Breakfast Club Readers resource (PDF 596 KB).