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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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.

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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.

Webinar: Shared reading resource

This shared practice webinar provides advice for sharing books and developing confidence in reading books aloud. Supports key area 2.3.1 Modelling reading behaviours.

Webinar: Introduction to Reading Schools (September 2025 recording)

A collection of three recorded elements from a live webinar held in September 2025 offering an introduction to Scottish Book Trust and research on the importance of reading for pleasure (10min 17s), followed by an overview of the Reading Schools programme along with advice, top tips and pointers (19min 48s), before concluding by sharing impact from ongoing programme evaluation(s) and next steps for schools looking to commence their own Reading Schools journey (13min 54s).

Three wooden Reading Schools trophies, for levels Core, Silver and Gold.

Reaccreditation reflection audit

This resource is for both recently accredited Reading Schools and accredited Reading Schools nearing their three-year expiry, who are looking to apply for the next level or reaccredit at their existing level to maintain their accreditation status.