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!
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
Sign up to our FREE learning platform and catch up on previous terms
The easiest way to take part in upcoming activity and watch back content from previous terms is to sign up to our free learning platform. It has everything you need for the year in one place, including the resources linked on this page.
Plus, you'll earn certificates, badges and prizes as recognition for your participation.
Alternatively, you can download previous term calendars with recording links at the bottom of this page.
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Download files
- NYR Autumn Term Calendar
- NYR Summer Term Calendar, Recording Links
- 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