Beyond Booked Up
This programme is no longer running.
Beyond Booked Up, 2012-2018, was a free programme providing resources to secondary schools with significant numbers of students who are eligible for free school meals.
The programme aimed to inspire a love of reading in Year 7 and 8 students through engagement with high quality writing across a range of formats.
Schools that took part in Beyond Booked Up received free sets of termly resources to help engage students with reading for pleasure. The resources included free books for Year 7 students through Bookbuzz, introductions to graphic novels, play scripts, myths and legends, performance poetry and short stories.
Resources were designed to:
- enable practitioners to engage students with reading for pleasure
- engage students with reading for pleasure through a variety of high quality written formats
- support students’ development as independent readers
- develop a love of reading amongst students
Books can change lives
Our programmes
Find out more about how we support families and practitioners to get children reading for fun.
Resources to use
Find out about our resources
From fun lesson plans to posters for your children's centre, find out more and search for resources which are right for you.
Books we love
Our favourite books this month
Every month, we review new children's books - and here are the ones we like best of all at the moment.