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A reading challenge for Key Stages 1 and 2 based on the popular Beast Quest and Rainbow Magic series.View details about Beast Quest and Rainbow Magic Reading Challenge -
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Encourage your pupils to expand and experiment with descriptive language using the Descriptosaurus books as inspiration.View details about Descriptosaurus Time Machine writing challenge -
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A descriptive writing challenge based on the popular Where’s Wally? series.View details about Around the World with Wally -
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Simple and straightforward ideas to encourage a buzz about books across the school.View details about Encouraging book talk -
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A writing challenge for Key Stage 2 pupils around on the Timmy Failure books by Stephan Pastis.View details about Timmy Failure: Crack the Case -
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This resource contains a selection of high-quality picture books that support the teaching of phonics.View details about Great books for teaching phonics -
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A teaching resource suitable for Key Stage 2 and 3 with lots of ideas and activities to enable you to run a descriptive writing competition in your school.View details about The Descriptosaurus writing challenge -
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Challenge and inspire upper Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3 pupils to write their own Alex Rider adventure story.View details about Alex Rider Secret Mission – an adventure story challenge -
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Here we share our top tips and creative ideas to engage parents through books.View details about Creative ideas for engaging parents through books -
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This resource encourages pupils and parents to explore their unique family stories aiming to produce a family history book.View details about All about me: Making a family history book at Key Stage 2 -
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Give transition a literacy focus with this resource based on the wonderful book The Land of Neverbelieve by Norman Messenger.View details about Literacy-based transition project for Years 6 and 7 -
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Taking the wonderful Michael Morpurgo book, This Morning I Met a Whale as an example, we show how reading a story can act as a starting point to whole units of work.View details about Storybook Curriculum Example: This Morning I Met a Whale -
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Share the power and joy of owning books at home in an assembly with parents.View details about Parent assembly: the power and joy of book ownership -
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We have put together the following advice based on our experiences of working with professional football clubs to promote reading and literacy.View details about Using football to promote literacy: working with clubs and players -
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These football-themed books have been reviewed for us by football author Tom Palmer. The reviews are short and grouped by age.View details about Football book reviews -
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Learn how to make the most of the time you spend helping children to engage with reading.View details about Top tips to support children with reading for enjoyment -
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Celebrate reading and inspire children with our themed book lists.View details about Young Readers Programme: booklists -
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Supporting resources, activities and book lists for schools taking part in the Young Readers Programme.View details about Young Readers Programme coordinator zone -
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Download our free five-part short story for Years 4, 5 and 6, written for us by children's author Tom Palmer.View details about A free short story by Tom Palmer for Years 4, 5 and 6: The Character Strikes Back -
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This resource demonstrates how to plan a whole school immersion in a quality text to inspire and motivate reading and writing for real purpose and audience.View details about Storybook cross-curricular planning example: Shackleton’s Journey
