If your class is about to move up to secondary school then check out this perfect resource for you! This A3 poster features several fiction books, with stories that specifically focus on characters that are about to begin secondary school. Many illustrate some of the challenges they face, as well as some of the positives of such a big change. It is hoped that students who are about to go to big school will be able to read about these experiences, which may help to alleviate any real anxieties and issues they have in real life. All books are appropriate for Year 6 students to read, and are a diverse and inclusive collection. Feel free to pop up in your classroom, or re-size and print out as leaflets to give to students. This is a completely free resource! For more reading and book related resources, please visit my shop.

Check out this fab new colour A4 poster, which showcases some of this year’s upcoming films that have been adapted from books! This poster depicts six films/books and comes with summaries of each. It’s perfect for primary school aged children or those fairly new to secondary school - there are no young adult books so this poster is widely suitable for any youngster. If your pupils love watching movies then these might spark their interest and encourage them to read the book to compare. This poster is a great starting point for discussions about reading and books…and is completely free to download and print out! For other reading for pleasure resources, please visit my shop!

Want to foster whole school literacy in your school? Don’t know how to link Art with English and reading? Try this! This A3 portrait poster is perfect to put up in any classroom or corridor. The learning areas and topics for the Key Stage 3 + 4 Art curriculum has been expertly linked to modern children’s and young adult books. This is a thematic, visual reading list that is linked directly to the art curriculum! There are also Accelerated Reader scores for each book and the books are arranged by author surname so that you (or your students) can easily find them in your school library. This poster is intended to spark conversations between teachers and students and can help to consolidate learning, concrete knowledge and broaden vocabulary through reading about topics in action. All books are age appropriate and are a diverse and inclusive collection that I would recommend to any student. Other subject posters are available in my TES shop, or why not buy a whole school bundle?!

Want to entice your reluctant readers into trying to get motivated with reading? Or are you an English teacher struggling to get your students into poetry? Then this fab new resource could be exactly what you need! This is a colourful and visual A3 poster, which explains what verse novels are and gives some suggestions of what books readers can start with. All books are young adult, appropriate for students ages 14+ years, due to some of the content and themes of the books. But all are well-written, quality and diverse texts that I would recommend readily. In addition, if they are on accelerated reader, then I have made a note of this alongside the book. Verse novels have become very popular with publishers and readers, particularly over the past five years. They offer a new, original way of reading verse and poetry, so can be a great way to encourage reading for pleasure. Other reading resources, such as subject posters, are also available in my TES shop, or why not buy a whole school bundle?!

This is a visual and themed book list and recommendations A3 poster. It is appropriate for all primary school aged children, and showcases a range of picture books, graphic novels and standard chapter books. They are all LGBTQA+ inclusive and feature characters with this representation, e.g. main characters feeling a little different and celebrating individuality, same sex parents, gender non-conforming children, etc. All of these books are well written, modern, positive and diverse. This poster can be put up not just for Pride Month, but at any time of the year around your school. Make sure to have some of the books available in your classroom or school library so that children can read and enjoy these fantastic stories.

This is a visual and themed book list and recommendations A3 poster. It is appropriate for all secondary school aged children, and showcases a range of standard chapter books and graphic novels for teens. They are all LGBTQA+ inclusive and feature characters with this representation, e.g. main characters that are lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, non-binary and a-sexual. There are some books that also feature LGBTQA+ family members, friends and teachers. All of these books are well written, modern, positive and diverse. This poster can be put up in classrooms, communal areas and libraries, and is intended not just for Pride Month, but at any time of the year around your school. Make sure to have some of the books available in your school library so that teens can read and enjoy these fantastic stories.

Getting students to think about what they’ve read helps them to develop essential English learning skills through encouraging empathy, widen vocabulary and deepen understanding of a story. This colourful and engaging one page book review template offers clear structure and prompts so that students can really consider all aspects of a book. This can then be used to nourish conversations about books between students as well as staff.

Encourage reading for pleasure in your school with this double sided bookmark! Colourful, modern and informative, this bookmark offers some helpful advice to students about how to choose the right book for them, as well as why reading regularly can be a really good thing. Help your students to gain confidence and see the value of reading with this eye-catching promotional resource. Place it in your school library, classroom or even reception area so that parents and visitors can see that you have a culture of reading at your school! The bookmark is 2 x 6 inches in size, so is compact and the perfect size for popping into a book. If you interested in purchasing a printed version of this resource, please see my website, Claire Warren Consulting.

This is a stunning and eye-catching one-sided A4 portrait poster. It showcases all ten Taylor Swift albums alongside an accompanying new young adult book, which is similar in themes. This eye-catching visual poster can help encourage reading for pleasure with your Key Stage 4+ students (ages 13+) and spark conversations about new books. Ideal for your school library, classrooms or even reception to emphasise to parents and visitors that your school has a prominent culture of reading. Would work really well in the music department too!

Ensuring that all of your students can understand what they read is incredibly important. Comprehension is a fundamental principle for learning. So how can you develop students’ comprehension skills? This handy worksheet resource is a very good start! Pop this in whatever book your students are reading, and ask them to get into the habit of writing a one sentence summary of what they’ve just read. Get them to do it after every time they read, whether at school or at home. This will mean that every time they then come back to their book, they can read their own summary, which is more likely to trigger memories of reading the book. It also means that as they are reading, they know they are going to have to write a summary sentence when they’ve finished, so they are more aware and focused on the plot/characters/events within the book. This is particularly useful for when teaching SEN or low ability students! By the time they’ve finished reading their book, they will have a mostly complete worksheet and series of sentences that they can reflect on for writing book reviews! Plus, you can see clear evidence of them actually reading! For more reading for pleasure resources, please check out the rest of my shop!

This A3 colour poster features a collection of 12 first lines of some modern young teen books. All books were published either late 2023 or early 2024 and are appropriate for late Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4 and possibly even some 6th Form students. All books are of quality and showcase a diverse range of authors and their books. This fab poster is intended to encourage reading for pleasure as well as widen students’ personal reading choices.

This A3 colour poster features a collection of 12 first lines of some modern young teen books. All books were published either late 2023 or early 2024 and are appropriate for late Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3 and even some Key Stage 4 students. All books are of quality and showcase a diverse range of authors and their books. This fab poster is intended to encourage reading for pleasure as well as widen students’ personal reading choices.

Pop these colourful and visual bookmarks in your classrooms or library for students to use in their books. This is a set of 12 individual bookmarks with the first lines of some modern young adult books. All books were published either late 2023 or early 2024 and are appropriate for KS3 and KS4 students. They are intended to encourage reading for pleasure as well as widen students’ reading choices. Many will want to collect the complete set, so just print out as many as you need.

If you were totally gripped by the recent The Traitors tv series, then your teen students will LOVE this! Check out this gorgeous new colour A4 poster, which has 34 book recommendations that are completely in the style of the series. Themes such as deception, betrayal, and treachery all feature in this fab new young adult fiction books. All of them have been only first published in the past couple of years, so are new and exciting titles that any teen reader will love. If you want to entice your reluctant readers and want to encourage reading for pleasure, why not download this poster and pop it up in your classroom!? You could even read a few yourself so you can discuss with students too. Check out the rest of my shop for whole school literacy ideas and reading for pleasure resources

Pop these colourful and visual bookmarks in your school or classroom library for students to use in their books. This is a set of 12 individual bookmarks with the first lines of some modern children’s books. All books were published either late 2023 or early 2024 and are appropriate for KS2 and KS3 students. They are intended to encourage reading for pleasure as well as widen students’ reading choices. Many will want to collect the complete set, so just print out as many as you need.

If you want to create a culture of reading at your school or college, this colourful A3 poster could be just the trick! This resource highlights 12 famous and iconic works of art and then matches them with modern, relevant teen and young adult books! Each are themed together with three connected topics, such as ‘crime’ and ‘identity’. By linking books with some recognisable artworks, it is hoped that they can become more accessible as students can understand more about their content. This can be a great way to encourage students’ reading for pleasure! Use this resource around your insitution, uniting the art department with whole school/college reading for pleasure! For more reading related resources, please check out the rest of my shop.

Grab your students’ attention with this colourful A3 book poster, celebrating this year’s National Poetry Day on 3rd October! The poster showcases a total of 24 fantastic poetry-related books - a mix of author collections, anthologies and verse novels! Each book is labelled with the book type, as well as the book’s title and lead author/compiler. Most books have been published within the past five years, and are diverse, accessible and inclusive. All books are suitable for secondary school students. Those marked ‘YA’ are ideally for students aged 13+ due to content. Pop this resource up in your classroom, library or communal areas to encourage reading for pleasure and a culture of reading at your school! For more reading related resources, please take a look at my shop.

If you are an English teacher, teaching GCSE English Literature, then this is the perfect resource for you! This fiction recommended visual book list poster is linked to the AQA GCSE set texts - the four most commonly used by teachers. These are; Macbeth A Christmas Carol Power and Conflict (Poetry Cluster) An Inspector Calls The featured books contain similar plots, characters or themes to the above set texts, or are even outrightly based on the books. The books are a diverse and inclusive collection that are appropriate for Year 10 and 11 readers. The poster is intended to concrete students’ knowledge and understanding of the set texts and are ideal for More Able students wanting to read around their subject. There are, however, at least one more accessible text for SEN students or lower ability readers for each set text. This colourful, subject-linked poster will brighten up your English classroom and may help to spark discussions about the set texts. For more reading related resources, please visit my shop. If you are interested in purchasing a printed version of this resource, please see my website, Claire Warren Consulting.

As part of the English curriculum at GCSE is to study a Shakespeare play, this fab poster includes five of the plays that feature on the most popular exam boards for GSCE English, AQA and Edexcel. For each play, I’ve highlighted several modern teen and adult books that are based on that specific play. This poster is intended to grab students’ attention and potentially direct them to more modern and accessible texts with central themes from Shakespeare’s plays, in order to further aid learning and understanding. Reading the books that are featured may also help to encourage reading for pleasure and is perfect for more able readers who want to read around their subjects.

Want to foster whole school literacy in your school? Don’t know how to link Design and Technology with English and reading? Try these! These two A Three portrait posters are perfect to put up in any classroom or corridor. The learning areas and topics for the entire KS3 and KS4 Design and Technology curriculum has been expertly linked to modern children’s and young adult books. This is a thematic, visual reading list that is linked directly to the D+T curriculum! There are also Accelerated Reader scores for each book and the books are arranged by author surname so that you (and your students) can easily find them in your school library. These posters are intended to spark conversations between teachers and students and can help to consolidate learning, concrete knowledge and broaden vocabulary through reading about topics in action. All books are age appropriate and are a diverse and inclusive collection that I would recommend to any student. Other subject posters are available in my TES shop, or why not buy a whole school bundle?!