Carefully nurturing children’s interest in books and encouraging them to share their experiences is proven to develop more confident readers who are willing to explore new genres or authors and help set them up to become lifelong readers.
Our Reading Features are designed to get everyone in school talking about books and promote a rich and valued reading culture.
There’s no better way of creating a buzz about reading than getting children talking to each other about books.
Our new range of units, that fit neatly between your BookSpace shelves, are designed to get children talking about their reading experiences and sharing this with their peers.
Children will love posting their ideas and reading recommendations into this library postbox. The unit comes with 3 different postcards: Suggestions for new books children would like to see in their library; Ideas to make their library even better; and Recommendations to pass on friends about what to read next.
Our Emoji Reads unit is a great way of helping children describe a book from personal, reader-centred perspective. Did the book make you sad or happy, did it make you laugh or did it make you sad, was it surprising or thought provoking? Children need to simply select the relevant emojis and display them in the acrylic pockets in front of the book.
Use this unit to show reading can take place in all sorts of different places. Display a photo of yourself reading alongside the book and write a short review. Staff can participate too, it’s good to show children that teachers are readers too.
This unit can also be used as a Me-to-You board, see below.
Encourage children to recommend books to each other. This unit comes complete with 50 ‘Me-to-You cards which are simply inserted into the acrylic pocket in front of the book.
We all get caught in a reading rut. This unit is ideal to get children experiment with a wide range of different books and authors.
Chose a book which lots of children like and know, find a book that has similar reading qualities and use the speech bubble to say why.
Drop a Hideyhole in among your shelving Stacks and create the perfect spot for a child to read quietly and get lost in their book.
Perfect for breaking up a run of library shelving. Use to display artefacts, topic work or highlight specific books.
Children love our Bucket Seat, it’s the ideal place to sit back, relax and enjoy browsing your favourite book. The metallic back board is supplied with magnets from some of our best-loved picturebooks.
Perfect for breaking up a run of library shelving. Use to display artefacts, topic work or highlight specific books.
“The library looks fantastic! It’s already created such a buzz around the school so I know the children will love it once the books are in.”
Hebburn Lakes Primary School
