Getting secondary school pupils to pick up a book and develop a love of reading can sometimes be a challenge. School librarian Stephanie Horton explains the three core strategies employed at Smith’s Wood Academy and offers a few ideas and tips...

Over the last two years, Smith’s Wood Academy has been working hard to integrate reading into pupils’ everyday lives, both academic reading and reading for pleasure.

Acknowledging that reading is the foundation for all learning, we support all our pupils to develop both an imaginative and critical view of the world in which they live, through reading. To engage with this vision we have put three key intervention strategies in place.

We have found that reading together really helps our pupils, both those that are natural readers and those that require additional support.

We created an Above and Beyond bi-weekly pupil-led book club for year 9s which stretches and challenges those going above and beyond their reading age.

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