Reading Schools

Our resources provide activities, ideas and inspiration to help you build a reading culture in your school. Each key area of the framework has a short explanatory video, advice, tips and suggestions for activities. You will also find some links to suggested activities and printable materials.

Resources are searchable by key word and can be filtered by key area, level of accreditation, audience and type of resource.

You can also check out Scottish Book Trust's learning resources(this will open in a new window) for other useful activities and resources.

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Alastair Chisholm’s storytelling prompts

This resource, created by author and Reading Schools ambassador Alastair Chisholm, gathers different fun activities to spark pupils’ creative writing.

Vlogging and Vox Pops with Into Film Scotland (May 2026 recording)

A recording of a live webinar, delivered in partnership with Into Film Scotland on creating vlogs and conducting vox pop interviews using creative media on your Reading Schools journey

Creating a book trailer with Into Film Scotland (May 2026 recording)

A recording of a live webinar, delivered in partnership with Into Film Scotland on creating book trailers and using creative media on your Reading Schools journey

Shared Practice: Supporting Reader Identities (April 2026 recording)

The Scottish Book Trust team and guest speakers share practical and inspiring ways in which our programmes and resources can help support staff to nurture children and young people’s emerging and evolving reader identities.

A woman with a Reading Schools lanyard smiling at a pupil in front of the camera

Nadine Aisha Jassat’s reader challenges

Resource from Reading Schools ambassador Nadine Aisha Jassat to support discussions with learners and recommendations around their reading interests

A pair of glasses sitting on a notebook and novel

School Improvement Planning with Reading Schools (March 2026)

The session gives an overview of the benefits of building a reading culture in your school and highlights evidence-based approaches to implement.

Shared Practice: Developing Staff Knowledge of Contemporary Children’s Literature (February 2026 recording)

One pupils reading to their interested peers in a library

Shared Practice: Encouraging Pupil Voice (November 2025 recording)

This shared practice webinar provides ideas for ways you can ensure pupil voice is at the heart of your Reading Schools journey, and how you might acknowledge the rights, voice and choice of children and young people in your setting through the Reading Schools programme.