Reading Champions Challenges: Our Blue Planet
Resource type: Projects, programmes and workshops
Price band: Free
Key stage: KS2, KS3
Region(s): All of UK
The Reading Champions Challenges are a programme of termly challenges and competitions for pupils aged 7-14. They have been designed to support the development of reading stamina, to increase reading diversity and encourage reading for pleasure.
Each Reading Champions Challenge is themed and comes with a set of supporting teaching resources that include:
- Teacher guidance notes.
- Recommended reading lists.
- Wallcharts, templates and certificates.
Kick-start the spring term with the We Wonder: Our Blue Planet challenge. This STEM reading challenge is designed to support disciplinary literacy, encourage reading for pleasure and promote research skills as pupils find out more about the issues affecting the Earth’s water resources before designing a campaign poster to encourage people to protect our Blue Planet.
Cost: Free with NLT Basic Membership (also free).
About National Literacy Trust: NLT is an independent literacy charity working with schools and communities to give disadvantaged children the literacy skills to succeed in life. The charity runs literacy programmes, CPD training courses for teachers, and provides online resources and tools to its members. It also undertakes research into all aspects of literacy and campaigns to raise awareness of literacy issues.
About Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society: The Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society is a not-for-profit membership organisation that ensures that its author members receive money when their work is copied or used by a third party.
Further resources:
- Schools that take part in the Our Blue Planet challenge can enter the associated competition for the chance to win a range of book-related prizes. The closing date for entries will be 28th March 2025.
- Explore Books for Topics’ Oceans and Seas and Under the Sea booklists for books to share with primary aged children.
- Find more recommendations for KS2 pupils in the Oceans and Seas booklist from Best Books for Schools.
- Authors 4 Oceans is a group of authors and illustrators united to help protect our oceans. Their website includes a list of children’s books with an ecological theme, videos, blog posts and other resources.
- Listen to poets read their poems on the theme of Seas and Rivers on The Children’s Poetry Archive.
- You can explore previous Reading Champion Challenges for more ideas on how to promote reading for pleasure.
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