Discover more about the schools and setting offer for National Year of Reading
Your National Year of Reading toolkit
This comprehensive National Year of Reading Toolkit is designed to equip teachers and practitioners with key dates, information and assets that will help you inspire your pupils and implement plans to boost reading engagement effectively. Access the toolkit from the download files list on this page.
What the toolkit includes:
- Research digest: a deep dive on the research that's shaped the campaign.
- Reflection guides: phase-specific guides will help you begin your journey of reflection and growth.
- Brand toolkit: fun digital and printable asset to show your involvement.
- A briefing presentation: to help you introduce the National Year of Reading to your colleagues.
- Additional guidance: practical tools to support implementation.
Take part and Go All In: choose your pathway
We're here to support you throughout the year - and beyond - however you choose to get involved. You can:
- Go All In with our Learning Management System (LMS), to follow a structured pathway through phase-relevant events and resources
- Dip in and sign up for individual activities throughout the year
All-Phase Introduction Webinar
The Launch of the National Year of Reading webinar: Inspiring life-long readers took place on 15 January 2026, and the recording is available below for you to watch.
The webinar featured keynote speaker Professor Teresa Cremin who set out a bold, inspiring vision for reading for pleasure across early years, primary and secondary education. Additionally, the research team at the National Literacy Trust shared insights into the research behind the campaign, and colleagues provided an overview of events and activities coming up, and how you can sign up to take part.
Your spring term 2026 resources
Discover fresh resources designed to meet your needs, whichever age group you work with. Aligned with termly planned themes, our spring term resources are designed to support teachers and practitioners to build a reading for pleasure culture In the Room.
New resources for summer will expand the focus to reading In the Setting, and for autumn, to reading In the Community.
Early Years resources
- Supporting reading in the early years: practitioner guidance
- Telling Stories in Early Years
- Chat, Play, Read: including ideas and an activity booklet in 19 languages
Primary resources
Secondary resources
- Developing a culture of reading for pleasure: a case study
- Reading for pleasure: promoting intrinsic motivation
- How to run a successful manga club in your school
CLPE resources
You can also find further invaluable insights in these resources from the Centre for Literacy in Primary English, a partner and subsidiary charity of the National Literacy Trust.
- CLPE corebooks a database of tried and trusted high-quality books to suit readers of all ages and stages of reading development
- Reading for Pleasure – What We Know Works
- CLiPPA Teaching Sequences - designed to explore poetry in depth and aligned to the Centre for Literacy in Primary Poetry Award (CLiPPA) shortlists