School reading is an integral part of teaching literature in teaching subject "Croatian language". The task of the school reading is to develop the students reading culture, literary taste and reading skills, and to meet the reader with national and world literature. Today students are developing a negative attitude towards school reading more often. The reason for that lies in her assessment and outdated, uninteresting and unmotivating approaches to teaching itself. Teachers often don't have the time, space and most important the motivation for designing different and more creative teaching. The aim of this paper is to investigate the extent to which the current curriculum encourages creativity and creative expressions of students and teachers in reading classes and whether teachers have the space to achieve the prescribed outcomes in a more creative way. Also, the paper presents activities to encourage creativity in school reading, and they're adapted to students wishes, intrests and abilities. The paper also lists two ways of preparations for conducting a lesson of school reading in which students aren't only passive observers, but actively participate in teaching lesson and develop their potential. It was concluded that the modern curriculum encourages creativity and provides quality recommendations for achieving educational outcomes in accordance with the wishes and abilities of students with their active participation in the teaching process.