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TIME TO READ
To help your children improve their literacy skills during this time of home working,
we’ve collated a few resources and links that we hope you will find useful and fun:
JK Rowling – The Ickabog
JK Rowling has released her new book, The
Small Town Superheroes
Ickabog online for free! Read all about this new
The BBC Bitesize Small Town Superheroes have
imaginary land as JK Rowling releases a chapter
an urgent mission for you! Join them as they
online each weekday between 26 May and 10
solve the problems and mysteries that occur in
June. For a chance to have your illustration to
Small Town. You’ll need to use your KS1 English
appear in JK Rowling’s book enter the
skills to help the heroes complete all the
illustration competition
missions.
The Summer Reading Challenge James and the Giant Peach with Taika and
The annual event for children aged four to 11 is Friends
running from 5 June to September to keep Oscar-winning filmmaker Taika Waititi has
children reading over the summer. With a theme teamed up with the Roald Dahl Story Company
of “Let’s Get Silly”, the website will host virtual to perform Dahl’s classic book in 10 instalments
events with celebrities and authors, games, to raise money for health workers. Actors
quizzes, and downloadable activities, all to including the Hemsworth brothers, Eddie
encourage children to read whatever makes Redmayne, Meryl Streep, Benedict
them happy. Cumberbatch, Lupita Nyong’o, Mindy Kaling and
www.bitcni.org.uk
Ryan Reynolds are performing different roles, are reporting increases in online book lending
with Waititi as narrator. of up to 700%.
Julia Donaldson and Friends
Every Thursday at 4pm BST the Gruffalo author
broadcasts a show for families on her Facebook
Puffin Storytime:
page.
Children’s publisher Puffin is offering regular
readings and draw-alongs from its list of authors
on Mondays and Fridays at 3.30pm BST. It has
Authorfy
also launched a Puffin podcast with comedian
The website is offering daily 10-minute creative
and children’s author Humza Arshad, packed
challenges for children from writers including
with “laugh-out-loud stories, games and jokes
Abi Elphinstone, Anna James and Lucy Worsley.
guaranteed to give you the giggles”.
BookTrust Home Time - Digital Hub
Letters from Lockdown
#UnitedByBooks
The Children’s Bookshow has launched a
This hub is packed with reading advice, ideas,
project where authors and illustrators are
activities and resources. From 6 April the Northern
sending handwritten letters to children in
Ireland page will be live which will feature local
lockdown to inspire them to write their own. authors, illustrators and initiatives to help showcase
Names including Quentin Blake, Posy local talent.
Simmonds, Roger McGough and Costa
children’s book award winner Hilary McKay are BookTrust and BookTrust NI Facebook
among contributors. A new letter will be posted Enjoy storytime with free online books and videos,
online each week day. play games, win prizes, test your knowledge in
book-themed quizzes, or even learn how to draw
Puffin Festival of Big Dreams some favourite characters. Facebook will allow
An online book festival running from 8-14 June, BookTrust to share the work that authors and
illustrators post online so you can keep up to date
with authors and illustrators including
with what’s going on.
Jacqueline Wilson, Robin Stevens, Nick Sharratt
and Nadia Shireen running writing
BookTrust
masterclasses and draw-alongs, with each event
Bookfinder – looking for brilliant books? Explore
themed around dreams.
suggestions of great reads for every age from 0 to 11
and use the Bookfinder tool to find books by age
National Shelf Service and theme.
UK librarians have launched a live daily
YouTube broadcast at 11am BST featuring Place to Wonder
book recommendations for children and Immersive storytelling and theatre for children and
families, at a time when some library services their grownups, designed to lower anxiety and
increase wellbeing and connection.
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In partnership with Save the Children
JK Rowling – Harry Potter At Home #SaveWithStories is offering stories on Instagram,
J.K. Rowling and her Wizarding World partners have read by some famous faces to provide fun and
launched Harry Potter At Home today to help education to kids and parents currently staying
children, parents, carers and teachers confined at home. Also on Facebook
home during the Covid-19 outbreak.
Walt Disney Co.
Barnardos Follow Walt Disney on Twitter and each day they will
Barnardos have four short bedtime books for little have a friend from the Disney family share one of
ones to listen to their favourite stories.
National Literacy Trust – Reading Miles Global Oxford Owl
Challenge E-book Library and Phonics Guide
It’s not that easy to travel at the moment but we are
thinking about people all over the world. Why not
read your way around the world with the Reading YouTube – Story Teller
Miles Global Challenge. Collect 500 reading miles Listen to the stories read by some well-known voices
for every 10 minutes you spend reading, either alone and follow the words
or with a parent, carer, or your brother or sister. You
could even video call your relatives and read aloud Audible
to them. Collect reading miles in a special reading 30-day free trial for all children’s books
passport on your very own reading world tour - a
whopping 33,000 miles (or 11 hours) in total! Oliver Jeffers #stayathomestorytime
Mon – Wed – Fri at 7.00pm
Libraries NI and www.oliverjeffers.com/books#/abookaday
Access lots of free audiobooks
Elevenses with David Walliams
Ladybird Books free audiobook from 23 March at 11.00 am, for the
Connect the world with the words that matter, next 30 days
through books that spark thoughts, dreams,
conversations and learning. World of Stories
World Book Day’s World of Stories, where you can
Floella Benjamin’s Storyland listen to audiobooks of your favourite books.
Watch Floella Benjamin’s Storyland YouTube
channel #playschool World Book Online
Download the World Book eBooks app on your
Journey with Story devices now read anywhere you want.
Global Player have released Journey with Story - A
storytelling podcast for kids See astronauts read from space
Reading to kids is wonderful and everything but
#SaveWithStories reading to kids from space is super awesome.
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over the phone or on a video call. Because even
Accelerated Reading when we're apart, stories can be a virtual hug.
Lots of great material for independent, self-directed
reading. Irish Times Recommendations
Books to help children cope in crisis
myON
To help support teachers, students and parents to The British Library is encouraging you to make
'Keep the UK and Ireland reading', myON are your own miniature book. A number of children’s
offering access to thousands of enhanced digital authors have created their own to inspire you – here
books through myON and articles from myON News. is Axel Scheffler’s miniature book. Alex is an
illustrator and animator best known for his cartoon-
Metacognition like pictures for children's books, in particular The
Gruffalo and The Gruffalo's Child. He has also
How Can Thinking About Thinking Help Children
authored/illustrated the Pip and Posy series of books
Learn? Take a step back and consider a child's
for children. Please send your photos or videos of
perspective of an activity. Ask kids WHY we might
your creations to British Library Learning Twitter
be doing an activity the way we are doing it. Ask
account.
WHAT they think is the easiest and hardest parts
about it. In short . . . get kids thinking! (attachment –
Metacognition) Take part in the Create a National Book Token
Design competition. When schools open, young
Ladybird Books designers and their classmates will each receive a
Every single day during lockdown, Ladybird Books is £10 National Book Token to inspire them to choose
sending a pair of matching books to a separated duo their next book. Competition is open until 28 June
so they can still settle down for story-time together, and there will be a winner each week.
WATCH ONE OF OUR LATEST STORYTIME READINGS BELOW . . .
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© Business in the Community 2020CLICK HERE to watch Tim CLICK HERE to watch Claire CLICK HERE to watch Samantha
McGarry read Shifty McGifty & Gordon read The Gruffalo, by Porciello read Dream a Little
Slippery Sam by Tracey Julia Donaldson Dream – her own book
Corderoy
To find out more about our Time to Read programme, or to volunteer for the new school term,
please contact: Ciara Mulgrew, ciara.mulgrew@bitcni.org.uk or Sarah Quinn (if based in
Derry~Londonderry) sarah.quinn@bitcni.org.uk
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