Get reading in Children's Book Week

Resources and activity inspiration to promote reading for pleasure among primary pupils ahead of Children's Book Week 2024

Tes Resources Team

Reading Books to be used In Childrens Book Week

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Children’s Book Week exists to give teachers and librarians a chance to promote a love of books and reading through a variety of activities. Here, we have drawn together a collection of book review templates, display ideas and reading activities that you could use with your primary pupils. So, why not join in with your class?

Reading Display, Book Corner Display
Miranda Pemberton

Reading Display, Book Corner Display

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Reading Display, Book Corner Display, Printable Display Pack Make your Reading Area gorgeous with this reading display! Beautifully designed with over 80 different patterned butterflies, a book image, lettering and handy tips sheet, this display pack contains everything you need for a quick, effort...
Book review template
hanaprice

Book review template

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I use this to encourage my children, my free readers, to read novels and report back on them. They retrieve sheet from me once finished a book and I read review once they have written it, to check. They are filed into a class wallet folder for all children to read. The class often use this indep...
Book review Mind Map
HJames4

Book review Mind Map

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This is a blank mind map worksheet for creating a book review. Prints on A4, best photocopied up to A3 size. Pupils fill in boxes with brief descriptions as prompted for story characters, draw and label the elements of the storyline, tick boxes to show the genre and their opinions in brief, fill in...
Reading Challenges
oinkpinkmoon

Reading Challenges

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A grid of reading challenges to get students into reading. This could be a homework, form activity or half term competition to boost literacy.
Exploring fiction genres (library lesson)
HMBenglishresources1984

Exploring fiction genres (library lesson)

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This lesson is perfect for a lesson in a school library to get students to think about opening their minds to new genres. To prepare for the lesson you need 7 tables. Each table must include 4-7 books in the following genres: fantasy crime realistic historical fantasy action and adventure horror ...
HOW TO STRUCTURE A BOOK REVIEW
Sandy118

HOW TO STRUCTURE A BOOK REVIEW

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An A4 sheet that explains to students the structure of a book review and what to include in each paragraph. A great home-learning task to encourage students to keep reading and reflect on their reading. I made this for KS3 students as a SPaG homework task. However, this could also be used for KS2 ...