Posted Friday June 26th 2009 by Natasha Worswick

Last year, as with every year, you gave us some brilliant feedback for the activities and resources that we send out to teachers and librarians to accompany the children’s Booktime book packs. And, based on what you had to say, we have made a few changes.

A few of you mentioned that it would be great to have access to the activities much earlier in the year, so you can make the most of planning them into your lessons for the winter term. It’s with this in mind, and hopefully in plenty of time for your planning, we have made sure that they are up on the website for you to look at, explore and download.

You can either download the sheets individually or all as one PDF – whichever suits you. There are plenty of fun activities to choose from, including Beginning Sounds, and session ideas to help you plan more around the gift book.

Booktime has also always tried to be as inclusive as possible of all children, because we believe that everyone can enjoy reading together. So this year, for the first time, there’s also an activity sheet with loads of ideas for children with additional needs.

We would love to hear what you think about all and any of this, so please do get in touch. We would also love to know what fun you are planning around Booktime for the little ones in your class, so please do leave a comment or email in to let us know natasha.worswick@booktrust.org.uk.

And we’ll take a look at the resources and activities in a little more detail over the next month or so.

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