Love your library

Make library lessons fun, and inspire your students to keep reading for pleasure, with this engaging collection of book-based activities, challenges and lesson ideas

Tes Resources Team

School library for reading for pleasure

Promote reading for pleasure with these hand-picked library lessons and activity ideas

The next few weeks could be a great time to rediscover your school or class library and get your students to explore new books and authors. With its variety of genres and subject areas, a library is undoubtedly one of the finest resources for promoting reading for pleasure. We’ve brought together a collection of inspiring lesson and activity ideas to help both you and your students fall in love with books. 

Reading challenges and activities

KS3 English Tutor Time Booklet (Reading Challenge)
English271217

KS3 English Tutor Time Booklet (Reading Challenge)

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A fantastic, popular and successful resource. Students encouraged to read 25 different books, and complete 25 different activities which demonstrate their understanding. Used in Tutor Time alongside Numeracy Ninjas - encourages enthusiasm for reading!
How to build a reading culture in your school
scottishbooktrust

How to build a reading culture in your school

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Learn more about building and sustaining a reading culture in your school including supporting reading for pleasure, celebrating reading achievements, being a reading role model and reading across the curriculum. This resource will also take you through Scottish Book Trust's free schools programmes ...
Middle School Summer Reading, Writing & Character Analysis Activity Pack
Lkat8

Middle School Summer Reading, Writing & Character Analysis Activity Pack

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This is just for you, middle school teachers! Summer reading, character analysis, and writing are made easy with this summer-themed activity kit! Everything you need to get started (or enhance your current activities) is included in this activity pack. INCLUDED IN PDF ZIP FILE: *Reading & Summ...
Fun reading activities, games and clubs
scottishbooktrust

Fun reading activities, games and clubs

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This resource gathers some of our favourite activities, games and clubs to make books and reading fun! Learn about how to run Book Jenga, book speed dating or a readathon. All of these ideas are adaptable based on the age and context of the children you work with and are designed to prompt discussio...
Reading Challenges
lofficer

Reading Challenges

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This cards can be used to help engage children in the the book they are reading and helps to see whether they understand what they are reading.

Library lesson ideas

'Book Ninjas' Library Tasks
MissCResources

'Book Ninjas' Library Tasks

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30 engaging tasks for students to complete in the library. I created these little library challenge cards for my boys group who really engaged with them! The idea is that ninjas are silent and focused and a class in the library should be too. These vary in ability and challenge and be easily adapted...
Library Activity Worksheets - Search the Shelves!
roger_pooley

Library Activity Worksheets - Search the Shelves!

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5 library activity worksheets designed to get students searching the library shelves and learn their way around a library. Each sheet is a short activity to complement other activities a class does while in the library. Each sheet has two identical worksheet activities for making photocopying more...
Library Challenge Cards
sh2810

Library Challenge Cards

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These Library Challenge cards were made for my class library, but they could be used in a school library as well. The idea was just to get the children excited about reading and properly engaged with the books, and they ve really enjoyed working through the activities an added bonus bein...
Library Lesson Reading Journal
CoachingEmpress

Library Lesson Reading Journal

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A ready made journal which will encourage students in years 6-8 to read on a regular basis and respond to the texts they have read. A questionnaire at the beginning will give teachers a sense of the student's reading culture. Each lesson students set a target for reading and when they have complete...
Library Resource
K Pope

Library Resource

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This task is aimed at developing pupil confidence when exploring that vast amount of books available to them in schools libraries. This is a fun way to expand pupil knowledge of the books available to them, whilst encouraging a positive library etiquette.
Library books exploration lesson/s
J.L.Vinsen

Library books exploration lesson/s

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A useful resource to use to get pupils exploring books from different genres and develop an idea of their own preferences. Lasts 2/3 lessons. (this can be used not for genres, just for books you have chosen for them to explore) Set up 5/6 books on each table (can be more or less depending on your ...
Book review Mind Map
HJames4

Book review Mind Map

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This is a blank mind map worksheet for creating a book review. Prints on A4, best photocopied up to A3 size. Pupils fill in boxes with brief descriptions as prompted for story characters, draw and label the elements of the storyline, tick boxes to show the genre and their opinions in brief, fill in...
Exploring fiction genres (library lesson)
HMBenglishresources1984

Exploring fiction genres (library lesson)

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This lesson is perfect for a lesson in a school library to get students to think about opening their minds to new genres. To prepare for the lesson you need 7 tables. Each table must include 4-7 books in the following genres: fantasy crime realistic historical fantasy action and adventure horror ...
summarising reading activity
klawrex

summarising reading activity

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Could be used in the library lessons, or while completing reading within texts within the classroom. This activity page has space where pupils can make notes on their book, an activity on summarising text, and the opportunity to select new words.
Book Review Worksheet
abteachingmaterials

Book Review Worksheet

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This is a double-sided A4 worksheet for reviewing a book. It prompts the student to identify the most important information and to provide opinions and ratings. It's great preparation for writing a summary or review and for class discussions, conversation practice, and presentations. U.S. and U.K. ...