COMPETITION

The National Year of Reading theme for December is: “Write the Future. Some write, others read and technology is bringing reading and writing closer together”.
We would like you to write a story about the future in no more than 160 characters including spaces. This is the length of a standard text message. Entries can be [...]

Create your own NYR logo

Get creative and design your own logo to celebrate National Year of Reading on your school web site.

Wow! 366. A FREE STORY EACH WEEK

A free story to download each week from the National Year of Reading web site.
These bite-sized tales are told in just 366 words, from the top names in children’s fiction, including Roddy Doyle, Susan Cooper, Eva Ibbotson, Jeremy Strong, Georgia Byng, Ian Whybrow… and Gordon Brown!
Read them in the park, on your lunch break, on [...]

Photographs from Sherry Ashworth workshop

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May: Mind and Body

Celebrate the links between reading and health. Run activities in partnership with health and wellbeing agencies. Emphasise the importance of bonding through parent and child reading together. Emphasise the link between mind and body.

Many library authorities run ‘Books on prescription’ or ‘Bibliotherapy’, and many surgeries have a BBC RaW Swaps bookshelf
Encourage/train staff in local sports [...]

April: Read All About It!

Read anything and everything, anywhere and everywhere. Run activities that celebrate reading and highlight a sense of challenge. Use newspapers or journalism as a tie-in.

Encourage boys and men to write newspaper-style reviews of sport games, e.g. a football match.
Conduct a competition within school to find the best, and offer rewards
Conduct a reading survey throughout school [...]

National Year of Reading

The National Year of Reading 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.