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DO NOT SAY THESE WORDS - Activity Pack

Keep your children safe! Certain words are making children giggle. Giggling produces gigglegas. And giggle-gas is bad for the planet. Help children keep this in mind with these handy activities and save the planet from giggles!

The Professor needs YOUR help to save the world. Gigglesome… read more

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  • Reading Groups for Everyone
  • Chatterbooks

OCEAN by David Attenborough and Colin Butfield - video assets and fact sheet

The landmark new book from David Attenborough and Colin Butfield.

A lifetime of discovery. A century in the making.

Ocean is the landmark publication by the greatest natural history broadcaster of our times on how to save the ocean – and consequently our planet. It is a book almost a… read more

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  • Reading Groups for Everyone

Greenwild: The City Beyond the Sea - Teaching Resources

Notes for Teachers for children aged 9+

Explore themes of:
- Nature
- The ocean
- Coral reefs
- Magic and fantasy

Subject Checklist:
- Literacy
- Science
- D.T.
- Art and design
- P.S.H.E.

The activities included here are suitable for the classroom or library sessions. read more

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  • Reading Groups for Everyone
  • Chatterbooks

Reading Sparks: Incredible Animals

Delve into the incredible world of animals, creating a fun 'trumps' card game which asks children to find, research and rank animals on size, fierceness, cuteness and other categories. They can then play the game in pairs, or take them home to play with family members.
Recommended Book: Through… read more

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  • Reading Sparks

How to Teach Grown-ups About Climate Change activity pack

Perfect for national environment daya such as Earth Day and Environment Day, and for any climate change focuses in your library or school, this activity pack includes:

· a poster with 10 suggestions to help the environment which you can print out

· a word search with key environmental word… read more

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  • Chatterbooks

Galápagos Islands Animal Wordsearch

Can you find the 10 animals hidden in this wordsearch? All the animals live on the Galápagos Islands or in the sea around them.

Based on Galápagos Islands: The World’s Living Laboratory. Join author and explorer Karen Romano Young on her travels through a world where locals and visiting… read more

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  • Chatterbooks

Greenwild by Pari Thomson - digital pack

<p><strong><span class="a-text-bold">Embark on an unforgettable adventure through the Greenwild, beautifully illustrated by Elisa Paganelli.</span></strong></p>
<p>Daisy Thistledown has escaped from boarding school and has a mystery to solve. Her search for her missing mother will lead her… read more

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  • Chatterbooks

Global by Eoin Colfer, Andrew Donkin and Giovanni Rigano - digital resources

This is a powerful, hopeful and timely story about the real effects of climate change: two young people on different continents whose lives are catastrophically changed by global warming. A graphic novel with glorious colour artwork throughout for children of all ages – from Eoin Colfer,… read more

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  • Chatterbooks

The Reading Agency’s April booklist - Nature and Conservation

Earth Day 2024 will take place on 22 April. To support any activity you may want to run, we have collated a booklist with a mix of poetry, fiction and non-fiction books with strong themes of nature and conservation.

We would love to hear what books you’d recommend on social media using… read more

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  • Reading Groups for Everyone
  • Reading Hack
  • Chatterbooks
  • Teachers Reading Challenge
  • Young People

Reading Friends Resource Pack: Foraging

This pack provides facts about what foraging is and plants that are commonly found in the UK, as well ideas for activities and discussion questions. read more

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  • Reading Friends

Wild Isles Reading List

The Reading Agency proudly supports the Save our Wild Isles campaign: www.saveourwildisles.org.uk.

Together, we can help save the UK's precious wildlife and wild places.

To celebrate the campaign, The Reading Agency has curated a reading list to inspire children and young people to learn… read more

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  • Summer Reading Challenge