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Creating a reading culture in your school

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School librarian Annette Lee shares some of her key strategies for improving students’ literacy skills and creating a reading culture in your school.

Wolsingham School and Community College caters for more than 700 students and I have been the librarian here for more than two years. 

We have adopted a whole-school literacy strategy and we believe that this is fundamental as it provides the foundation for all other subjects. We work on improving all our 700 pupils’ literacy standards throughout their time with us and we try to do this in as many different ways as possible.

It is a constant challenge to keep coming up with fresh ideas, but we believe that investing time in this provides great “all-round” benefits to our pupils.

Our whole-school literacy strategy takes a number of forms. We involve all staff and use many different techniques (and we are always coming up with more!).

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