Best Practice Guides
These guides have been developed by our library advisers to give instant and useful ideas to enhance your library and reader development.
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These pages contain useful advice and guidelines on matters to do with reading and libraries.
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For primary schools
Getting Boys to Read (141.65 kB - pdf help) - Parents: encouraging parents to read with their child
- National Children’s Book Week
- Transition
- Book Weeks
- World Book Day Quiz for Primary Schools
- Primary Book Group best practice guide
- Pupil Librarian training A training programme for primary schools, with support materials
- Book Corners A best practice guide on how to get yours looking good and improving the reading environment across the primary school
- Inspirational Reading Spaces A library starts from the user. You need an area to excite and inspire your readers, as well as a place for study and reflection.
- Storytelling best practice guide
- Update! Automate! Computerising your primary school library
- Where it’s @ and how to get there! – Year 4 best practice guide A cross-curricular approach to independent learning
Also see our gallery of ideas from primary schools.
For secondary schools
- World Book Day Quiz for Secondary Schools
- Transition
- Library induction for Year 7 Notes for the Cephalonian Method of library induction
- Book club ideas
- Genre bookmarks
- Inspirational Reading Spaces A library starts from the user. You need an area to excite and inspire your readers, as well as a place for study and reflection.
- Student librarian training A training programme for secondary schools, basic to advanced (counts towards the Duke of Edinburgh Award scheme)
- Combating Plagiarism