Reading Connects is an initiative funded by the Department for Children, Families and Schools and delivered by the National Literacy Trust. It supports primary and secondary schools in building a whole-school reading community. Reading Connects is more of an approach, than a project with specific criteria. It encourages you to embed a holistic creative approach to promoting reading for pleasure into your school’s policies, vision and good practice, integrating the following elements:
- place reading for pleasure at the heart of the school's policy to raise standards and promote enjoyment in learning
- involve all members of staff, including catering staff, the caretaker, governors and parent groups in promoting reading
- work in partnership with your pupils' families to encourage reading in the home
- work with local organisations (particularly your SLS and/or public library), as well as other schools
- make reading as visible as possible within the school environment
- learn from and share your good practice with the Reading Connects network of schools and organisations
