Resources

Great resources and online courses for primary and secondary home learning – ideal for self-isolation, time away from school, or revision. This list of E-learning activities is suitable for primary aged children and secondary and sixth form teens and young adults in the UK.

EmpathyLab, the University of Sussex, and St Matthew’s Research School are hosting a conference addressing the need for empathy education. Educating for Empathy – the reading factor conference will explore how literature plays a role in nurturing empathy.

Are you looking to up-skill during downtime? Are you a literacy or English teacher in need of CPD evidence for your next appraisal? Here’s our regularly updated list of online training, remote courses, distance learning research-based CPD and internet-based inset for teachers.

How to read with your child at home; a guide for parents, including advice on choosing books, when to read with your child, questions to ask and how to praise your child’s reading.

We’re always on the lookout for enthusiastic and experienced teachers, ex-teachers, home-educators, librarians, education academic, children’s authors and education writers to join our merry band of book and resource reviewers.

Following established annual children’s literature awards, medals and prizes is a good way to decide which books to pick when purchasing new stock for your school library, or which new books to buy for your children.

Book schemes, book fairs, book clubs and library packs for primary and secondary schools in the UK. Ideal for World Book Day planning and developing whole-school literacy drives and reading for pleasure.

How to make timetabled reading time in schools exciting – including ideas to encourage and develop a lasting reading for pleasure culture in your classrooms, Key Stages and school.

Children’s literature blogs are a great way to keep track of the latest trends, releases and recommendations in children’s literature – including picture books, short chapter books, middle-grade fiction, school library non-fiction and YA novels.

Trying to find the perfect children’s bookcase or bookshelf can be a minefield with children’s books coming in all shapes, sizes, and weights. We’ve put together a selection of kid’s bookshelves, bookends & bookcases for storing all your picture books, stories, and kid’s magazines.

Recommend books for our reading lists! Send in your favourite titles from beloved classics to new titles that reflect the realities of our diverse world.

Promoting your new children’s book is hard! Here are some useful tips from the School Reading List team, including practical advice on using word of mouth and social media, getting your book into schools, and how we can help.

Our up to date list of children’s book publishers in the UK covering baby & toddler picture books, 5-7, early chapter books for 7-9 year olds, middle-grade novels for 9-12 year olds, 12-16 teen young adult fiction, poetry, nonfiction, textbooks, and study guides.

Children’s bookshops in the UK and Ireland – browse our list of independent bookshops and specialist children’s bookshops throughout the United Kingdom and Ireland to visit with your children, class, school or teaching colleagues.

The pivot towards home learning during the global pandemic saw a proliferation in the amount of copyright infringement by teachers copying content onto school websites. Perhaps only now are we starting to see the impact.