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Over 100 articles and teaching packs based on popular books, ranging from full collection of lessons to simple cross-curricular activity ideas.
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Book-themed craft days: friendship
Early years
Early Years
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Sharing a Shell Year 2 Activity Pack – Rock Pool Rescue
Key stage 1
Primary
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Engage: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe activity pack
Key stage 2
Primary
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Engage: Fantastic Mr Fox activity pack (62 pages)
Key stage 2
Primary
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Engage: The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch activity pack (46 pages)
Key stage 1
Primary
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Read & Respond: The Sheep-Pig
Key stage 2
Primary
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Read & Respond: Matilda
Key stage 2
Primary
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Read & Respond: The Snail and the Whale
Key stage 1
Primary
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The Ugly Five KS1 lesson plan pack
Key stage 1
Primary
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The Wonky Donkey activity pack EYFS
Early years
Free
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Zog Home Learning Activity Pack 0-5 years
Early years
Free
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Stick Man KS1 activity pack – No Ordinary Stick
Key stage 1
Primary
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The Gruffalo – Fantastic Creatures KS1 activity pack
Key stage 1
Primary
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The Scarecrows’ Wedding – The wedding list activity pack – EYFS
Early years
Early Years
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Zog: KS1 imaginary dragons activity pack
Key stage 1
Primary
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Zog – Being a flying doctor activity pack – EYFS
Early years
Early Years
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Superworm – Superworm Day activity pack – EYFS
Early years
Early Years
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Mr Stink activity pack
Key stage 2
Primary
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The Tiger Who Came To Tea activity pack
Early years
Early Years
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The Tiger Who Came To Tea lesson plans KS1
Key stage 1
Primary
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World Book Day
Early years
Early Years
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Glitter Boy – teaching resources
Key stage 2
Free
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Book-themed craft days: things that are special
Early years, Key stage 1
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Book-themed craft days: robots
Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Primary
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Book-themed craft days: homes and families
Early years, Key stage 1
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Book-themed craft days: journeys
Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Primary
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Early years book-themed crafts: journeys
Early years
Early Years
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Key Stage 1 book-themed craft days: friendship
Key stage 1
Primary
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The Boy Who Didn’t Want to Die – lesson plan pack
Key stage 2
Free
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The Boy Who Didn’t Want to Die – comprehension pack
Key stage 2
Free
An unrivalled range of sample papers for the National Tests.
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Lower KS2 Reading 10-minute SATs practice test
Key stage 2
Primary
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KS2 SATs Reading Booster Extra Pack: How information is related
Key stage 2
Primary
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KS1 SATS Reading Booster Extra Pack
Key stage 1
Free
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Making the Most of your School Library with Alison Miller
Free
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From Story Reading and Telling into Writing with Pie Corbett
Free
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Pie Corbett’s Top Tips for Summer Reading
Free
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How MATs can deliver effective literacy improvement programmes
Free
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Refugees, acceptance, and inclusion – using books to develop empathy and understanding, with Jo Cummins
Free
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Teaching the fluency development lesson — proven instruction for foundational reading competencies, with Professor Tim Rasinski
Free
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From striving to thriving: How to grow confident, capable readers, with Stephanie Harvey and Annie Ward
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Using books to build pupils’ empathy skills
Free
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Using guided reading as part of a whole school approach to reading for pleasure, with Sue Bodman and Glen Franklin from the UCL Institute of Education
Free
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Learning to read, learning to think, with Richard Boxall and Rosie Condon
Free
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Pedagogy to practice: How to create a high-impact, low-workload reading lesson
Free
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Using graphic novels in the classroom, with Jo Cummins
Free
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Closing the gap – catch-up phonics, with Joy Allcock
Free
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Understanding the benchmarking of progress in reading, with Stephen Graham
Free
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Using reciprocal reading to raise reading standards, with Jill Eggleton
Free
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Putting reading for pleasure at the heart of your English lesson, with Rachel Clarke
Free
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Systematic synthetic phonics, with Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised
Free
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Delivering effective guided reading, with Sue Bodman and Glen Franklin from the UCL Institute of Education
Free
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Reading CPD Video Library
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Creating and using a reading spine, with Pie Corbett
Free
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Reading achievement through fluency instruction, with Professor Tim Rasinski
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KS2 SATs Reading Booster Extra Pack: Making comparisons
Key stage 2
Primary
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KS2 SATs Reading Booster Extra Pack: How meaning is enhanced
Key stage 2
Primary
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KS2 SATs Reading Booster Extra Pack: Prediction
Key stage 2
Primary
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KS2 SATs Reading Booster Extra Pack: Inference
Key stage 2
Primary
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KS2 SATs Reading Booster Extra Pack: Retrieval
Key stage 2
Primary
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KS2 SATs Reading Booster Extra Pack: Words in Context
Key stage 2
Primary
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Carefully considered reading lists for the most reluctant readers and book-lovers alike.
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Can cows change the climate? Comprehension exercise
Key stage 2
Primary
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Reading Fluency Instruction: Lessons from the HFL Reading Fluency Project with Kathy Roe
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Telling hidden stories: how introducing texts to young readers deepens independent reading comprehension with Richard Boxall
Free
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Understanding book levelling with Lisa Bickel
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Optimising oracy for improvised KS2-3 transition with Sarah Green, The Literacy Coach
Free
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The Around the World Reading Challenge – Week 4
Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Primary
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The Around the World Reading Challenge – Week 3
Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Primary
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The Around the World Reading Challenge – Week 2
Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Primary
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The Around the World Reading Challenge – Week 1
Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Free
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Making the Most of your School Library with Alison Miller
Free
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From Story Reading and Telling into Writing with Pie Corbett
Free
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Pie Corbett’s Top Tips for Summer Reading
Free
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How MATs can deliver effective literacy improvement programmes
Free
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Refugees, acceptance, and inclusion – using books to develop empathy and understanding, with Jo Cummins
Free
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Teaching the fluency development lesson — proven instruction for foundational reading competencies, with Professor Tim Rasinski
Free
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From striving to thriving: How to grow confident, capable readers, with Stephanie Harvey and Annie Ward
Free
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Using books to build pupils’ empathy skills
Free
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Using guided reading as part of a whole school approach to reading for pleasure, with Sue Bodman and Glen Franklin from the UCL Institute of Education
Free
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Learning to read, learning to think, with Richard Boxall and Rosie Condon
Free
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Pedagogy to practice: How to create a high-impact, low-workload reading lesson
Free
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Using graphic novels in the classroom, with Jo Cummins
Free
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Closing the gap – catch-up phonics, with Joy Allcock
Free
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Understanding the benchmarking of progress in reading, with Stephen Graham
Free
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Using reciprocal reading to raise reading standards, with Jill Eggleton
Free
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Putting reading for pleasure at the heart of your English lesson, with Rachel Clarke
Free
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Systematic synthetic phonics, with Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised
Free
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Delivering effective guided reading, with Sue Bodman and Glen Franklin from the UCL Institute of Education
Free
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Developing fluency in early reading
Early years, Key stage 1
Members only
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Climbing the Ladder to Phonics, Spelling, and Vocabulary Success with Professor Timothy V Rasinski
Free
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Reading for remembrance: teaching remembrance through fiction with the Royal British Legion
Free
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