Pupil questionnaires: attitudes to reading

Use our pupil questionnaire and analysis template to find out how your pupils feel about reading at your school, so you can identify strengths and areas for improvement. See examples of questionnaires from other schools.

Last reviewed on 17 February 2025
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Contents
  1. Download our questionnaire
  2. Download our analysis template 
  3. How to analyse your results
  4. Examples of reading questionnaires from other schools
  5. Examples of reading survey results

Download our questionnaire

Use it as a starting point, and adapt it to suit your school's context:

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The questionnaire should be used in lesson time, so the teacher can read the questions out loud, and help any pupils who need additional support.

This includes younger pupils who need an adult to scribe for them, pupils with special educational needs (SEN) and pupils with English as an additional language (EAL).

Download our analysis template 

Use our template to analyse the results. It's based on our questionnaire, but can be easily adapted if you're using your own questions:

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Or, use the questionnaire more informally to discuss your provision with your subject lead for reading (if you don't have one, your senior leaders),