LoveReading4Schools

From LoveReading

Resource type: Booklists and book reviews, Book donations and fundraising

Price band: Free

Key stage: KS1, KS2, KS3, KS4

Region(s): All of UK

LoveReading4Schools is an online platform dedicated to helping schools promote reading for pleasure by:

  • Providing access to expert book reviews and recommended booklists for all year groups.
  • Helping them raise funds to spend on books for their library.

Curated Booklists

Through the LoveReading4Schools portal, schools have access to a range of book recommendation and author features to support reading for pleasure, including:

  • Annual Recommended Reads for each year group from EYFS to KS4, updated at the start of each academic year.
  • Booklists to cover key curriculum areas and reading interests.
  • Best Books for Kids Who… booklists that tap into young people’s wider interests and hobbies.
  • Book of the Month recommendations.
  • Author interviews and competitions.
  • The facility to create school reading lists and wish lists that can be shared with members of staff and families.
  • Regular newsletters with the latest reviews and children’s book news.

Fundraising through the LoveReading online bookshops

  • Schools that buy books through the LoveReading and LoveReading4Kids online bookshops receive up to 25% of the value of their purchase as credit for future book purchases.
  • Parents and members of the wider school community can also donate up to 25% of the value of any purchase they make through the LoveReading online bookshops to the school as credit.
  • The LoveReading4Schools portal provides access to tools to help schools run fundraising campaigns to purchase new books.

Cost: Registration on the Reading4Schools portal is free. Book prices vary but all come with a 10% discount on the RRP.

About LoveReading4Schools: LoveReading4Schools is part of the LoveReading group, a portfolio of online bookshop with social purpose and a leading book recommendation platform. Powered by LoveReading4Kids, its mission is to promote reading for pleasure and improve educational outcomes for children and young people by getting more books into schools.

Literacy Hive Likes:

  • Keep up to date with the latest publishing by signing up for the LoveReading4Kids newsletter. The platform reviews over 75 books for children and young people every month.
  • LoveReading4Kids reviewers are made up of former librarians, teachers and children’s book experts
  • You can download an opening extract for many of the books.
  • The LoveReading online bookshops provide an easy way for schools and members of their wider community to raise funds that are ring-fenced for books.
  • LoveReading4Schools also runs a Funding for Schools Scheme that allows state-funded member schools in the UK to apply for up to £5000 of credit to fund books to support reading for pleasure. Priority is given to schools in areas of economic or cultural disadvantage.

Visit the resource

lovereading4kids.co.uk

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