Digital resources to support your paired reading projects

Scottish Book Trust's national book gifting

Paired reading can be a fantastic way to build confidence in reading, introduce fun and meaningful cross-age projects, support fluency and remove the pressures of reading in school.

In this digital resource kit, we have curated some handy tools to help the development of your paired reading projects including recordings of our recent 'Paired Reading and Read Write Count with the First Minister' CLPL sessions, with ideas, activities and downloadable content to ready your learners for a fun reading experience.

At Reading Schools, we are keen to promote opportunities that maximise existing resources and pulls strands of work together, enabling fantastic partnerships to be developed both in school and across a cluster. Whether it be paired reading in a primary school, or a secondary school working with their feeder primaries, Scottish Book Trust's P1-3 book gifting programmes(this will open in a new window) (Bookbug(this will open in a new window) and Read Write Count with the First Minister(this will open in a new window)) offer a great suite of tools to support those projects.

Paired Reading Toolkit

Scottish Book Trust's Paired Reading Toolkit(this will open in a new window) is a fantastic suite of resources, containing everything you need to plan and deliver your very own project, together with a case study video from Dalmilling Primary School in South Ayrshire, describing their paired reading project. The toolkit contains the following resources:

• A quick drama activity to build pupil confidence in reading aloud and using their voice for expression.
• A teacher guide to running a paired reading project with reluctant readers.
• A pupil letter detailing the mission.
• A reading report for pupils to record paired reading sessions.
• A certificate to award to pupils once they have finished the project.

There are also some fun, downloadable resources, to make your projects exciting and engaging, including:

• Pupil 'mission' letter(this will open in a new window)
• Pupil certificate(this will open in a new window)
• Pupil 'mission' report(this will open in a new window)

Paired Reading and Read Write Count with the First Minister

Our recent CLPL session on paired reading focussed on ‘Where has all the cake gone?’ from this year's Primary 2 bag. There are a number of accompanying resources to support the gifting of the Primary 2 bag, but they could also be useful for your paired reading projects.

The Read Write Count with the First Minister web resource pack(this will open in a new window) includes:

• Mindmaps
• Printable worksheets
• Activity ideas
• Video readings of the books

Useful links

Where has all the cake gone?

All the attendees from our recent CLPL sessions can claim their free copy of 'Where has all the cake gone' and will receive an email shortly with more information on how to receive their book.

If you have not received an email, please contact us at readingschools@scottishbooktrust.com(this will open in a new window) with your Eventbrite ticket number and we’ll send you a copy.