Schools and settings offer for National Year of Reading
Start your National Year of Reading journey at any time
If you're just beginning your National Year of Reading journey, download our starter toolkit. It's designed to equip you with information and assets that will help you inspire your children and young people, and implement plans to boost reading engagement effectively. Access the toolkit from the download files list on this page.
Autumn Term calendar is now live!
National Year of Reading webinar playlist
Every webinar and event as part of the National Year of Reading is recorded and held on a playlist on the National Literacy Trust YouTube channel. Although you'll get the most out of attending activity live, this means you can catch up on anything you've missed. If you're a user of the Learning Management System, you can also catch up there.
Termly resources
Each term, we are releasing a set of phase‑specific resources designed to support a termly theme of developing a reading‑for‑pleasure culture: in the room during Spring, in the setting during Summer, and in the community during Autumn.
Your summer term 2026 resources
Recognising the achievements you are already making in changing the shape of reading for pleasure in your setting, our summer term resources are designed to support school leaders in enhancing your reading for pleasure culture In The Setting.
Early Years resource
Primary resource
Reading for pleasure: exploring vision and practice in our primary school
Secondary resource
Reading for Pleasure Briefings: Developing volitional reading in our secondary 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.
Teaching notes for children's books
The reading scale - helping teachers to understand what progression looks like in reading
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.
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
Download files
- NYR Autumn Term Calendar
- NYR Summer Term Calendar
- NYR Spring Term Calendar, Recording Links
- Schools & Early Years National Year of Reading toolkit
- Early Years self-reflection guide
- Primary self-reflection guide
- Secondary self-reflection guide
- National Year of Reading overview for staff team briefings