Take One Book
From Just Imagine
Resource type: Lesson plans and teaching aids
Price band: £
Key stage: KS1, KS2
Region(s): All of UK
Take One Book is a programme of text-based teaching sequences that are designed to:
- develop positive attitudes to reading.
- ensure pupils are exposed to a wide range of quality texts.
- develop deeper reading comprehension and inference skills for all children.
The programme provides teaching sequences for over 100 carefully curated texts for Years 1 through to 6. The text selection covers fiction, non-fiction, poetry and picture books and includes recent releases as well as established favourites.
All the Take One Book teaching sequences follow a consistent framework and are made up of carefully devised building blocks that can be selected to create customised teaching plans.
While the focus of the programme is on helping pupils develop greater depth and understanding of the texts they are reading, the sequences also provide opportunities for pupils’ own writing.
The Take One Book programme is available via subscription and there are various packages available. Subscriptions last for one calendar year and allow access to as many teaching sequences as you require for the year groups selected.
Cost: From £175 ex VAT per year.
About Just Imagine: Just Imagine was established in 2010 by Nikki Gamble, a former teacher and university lecturer and author of Exploring Children’s Literature: Reading for Knowledge, Understanding and Pleasure. The literacy consultancy works with schools in the UK and abroad to develop outstanding reading and writing practice, where stories and literature are placed firmly at the heart of learning. As well as developing reading projects and programmes for teachers to deliver in schools, Just Imagine offers training and consultancy on a wide range of literacy topics.
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- The teaching sequences are created by literacy experts working with partner schools.
- Four free sample teaching sequences are available to download and review.
- Many of the teaching sequences include wider learning opportunities that link to other areas of the primary curriculum as well as further reading suggestions.
- Training to support the Take One Book approach is available.
- Book packs to accompany the Take One Book sequences are available from Just Imagine’s bookshop Best Books for Schools.
- Enjoy author interviews and keep up to date with the latest book news with Just Imagine’s In the Reading Corner podcasts, and monthly Book Blast videos.
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