This section sets out the policy framework for the Enjoying Reading approach. It also offers a range of practical resources and tools to help you improve your support for pupils' information literacy skills in partnership with school libraries, schools library services and public libraries.

Advocacy

Enjoying Reading Primary School Booklet (pdf, 471kb)

As a partner in Enjoying Reading, the National Literacy Trust has worked with practitioners to develop this advocacy booklet. The 24 page booklet covers reader motivation, how public library and primary school partnerships can support teachers in delivering the curriculum, and contains examples of successful school-library partnerships.

Policy

The Libraries and Schools Policy Map (pdf, 47kb) outlines key government policies and policy drivers coming from:

Department for Children, Schools and Families
Department for Culture, Media and Sport

The document summarises the aims of each policy and how libraries can help schools to meet them.

Resources - Information Literacy

Information literacy is a key area where libraries and schools can work together to help children.

The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals defines information literacy as follows:

'Information literacy is knowing when and why you need information, where to find it, and how to evaluate, use and communicate it in an ethical manner'.

The School Library Association has mapped information literacy against each curriculum key stage to provide a starting point for teachers and librarians who are keen to make full use of their own school library and of visits to their local public library.

Information literacy requires children to have an understanding of:

a need for information
the resources available
how to find information
the need to evaluate results
how to work with or exploit results
ethics and responsibility of use
how to communicate or share your findings
how to manage your findings

Information literacy and curriculum skills maps:

Information Literacy and the Key Stage 1 Curriculum (pdf, 65kb)
Information Literacy and the Key Stage 2 Curriculum (pdf, 77kb)

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