Need help finding quality texts for use in the classroom?

Many teachers find it difficult, with a full workload, to keep up to date with the newest and best texts to use in the classroom. However, it is important to provide children with the most interesting and engaging up to date texts we can find in order to keep their enthusiasm and motivation going. There are so many new books out there in can be impossible to keep up. These links will take you to some resources subject leaders could use to support staff in school.

• CLPE Publications and recommendations
• Cambridgeshire teachers' recommendations
• Norfolk Children's Book Centre
• Cambridgeshire Schools Library Service

QCA Reading Differences:

The Reading Differences materials suggest ways of introducing children to a broader range of literature from around the world. It is about reading different books and reading them differently.

All reading differences texts are available to borrow from the Literacy Resource Centre at Stanton House in Huntingdon.

• Reading Differences Website
• Year 3/4 Introductory Leaflet
• Year 5/6 Introductory Leaflet
• Reading Differences Annotated Booklist
• Teaching World Literature in the Primary School

Developing a reading culture:

• Environment
• Library
• Pupil involvement and activities
• Community and parental involvement
• Teaching of reading

Cambridgeshire Teachers' Favourite books.

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