Resources for Secondary Schools

Enjoying Reading 

 

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 young people’s information literacy skills in partnership with school libraries, schools library services and public libraries.

Advocacy

Enjoying Reading Secondary School Booklet (pdf, 654kb)

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 secondary 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 students study effectively and successfully.

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 students 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:

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