Primary Resources for the library and literacy

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Celebration Posters

Celebration Posters

Have you got a source of great eye-catching posters celebrating key events throughout the year?

NEW: This is a series of A4 pdfs emailed to you to raise awareness of events such as International Women’s Day, Halloween, World Water Day, National Science and Engineering Week, Refugee Week, Diwali, Black History Month, National Tree Week, World Oceans Day, Guy Fawkes Day, Remembrance Day, Eid-Ul-Adha and more.

A year's subscription for Primary schools £14.95 + vat. Save £14.95 on the full price.
(You will not be charged delivery)

"I am so impressed with the quality - we have had tremendous feedback from them!"
Kath Howard, Royal Manor Arts College Community School

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Posters for English for primary schools

Posters for English for primary schools

Click here to see all the posters so far and to buy individual posters

Do you wish you had a ready supply of great posters highlighting key ideas in English? Look no further!

This is a unique monthly series of posters in A4 pdf format.

Order now and receive FREE a personalised poster.

Eye-catching posters focussing on key topics: literacy, drama, poetry, grammar, spelling...

Make as many copies as you want! Ready for whiteboard too.

A year’s subscription (12 posters + free personalised poster):

£14.95 + vat. (50% saving for primary schools).

New poster emailed every month.

(The posters can be blown up to A3 size: Acrobat: print: page scaling: fit to printable area)

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Successful library displays

Successful library displays

Inspiring and practical

Quick and easy library displays to promote reading

• Brilliant eye-catching ideas
• Raises the profile of your library
• Extensive booklists to create the displays
• Supporting activities
• Related websites
• Fabulous suggestions for events throughout the year
• Great general display ideas

Covers 58 key events such as World Book Day, Valentine’s Day, Crufts Dog Show, National tree week, Christmas, Refugee week, World Oceans Day.

NEW JUly 09: £24.95 (or only £17.50 for subscribers to ReadPlus below)



Share photos of library displays here.

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Successful library displays offer for ReadPlus subscribers

Successful library displays offer for ReadPlus subscribers

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Great Library Ideas

Great Library Ideas

Tried & tested tips & techniques guaranteed to work in your library

Nikki Heath, winner of the 2008 SLA School Librarian of the Year award, is a major contributor to Great Library Ideas.

This essential copiable resource is jam packed with lively and successful ideas to make the most of the library/LRC and put it right at the heart of the school. Most of the ideas can be easily adapted to different abilities and ages from 8-16. They range from one-off lessons to extended projects. Each idea is fully described and most include a copiable worksheet.
Ideas include:

Best Borrowers
Mystery Gift
Networking without wires
Book Menus
Desert Island Books
Book Walls
Send a Text Message
Book Ends
Non Fiction Detective
Guess the Genre
Find a Fact
Shakespeare Reading Game
The Dewey Game
Mission Possible
Which Genre
Library Treasure Hunt Bingo
Murder in the Library
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
What Do We Read?
Web Versus Books
Take a Book by its Cover
The Lateral Thinking Game
Read a Rainbow
Speed Dating
Blind Date Reads

So if you want a dynamic and successful library ask for an approval copy!
Primary school offer price: £19.95 including a cd for ease of printing. Save £10 off the normal price of £29.95.

"I love Great Library Ideas - a treasure chest of good ideas"
Geoff Dubber, Chair, School Library Association


"Absolutely wonderful"
Barbara Cronk, Bishop Bell School, Eastbourne


"Great Library Ideas provides a large part of the reason why reading still flourishes in the pressured lives of so many children ... a huge range of well tried and tested activities ... murders, quizzes and competitions, treasure hunts and blind dates! Each idea is clearly described and resourced. [for] librarians certainly, but also teachers of older primary children"
Speaking English magazine, Autumn 2008

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Booked in!

Booked in!

A guide to running a successful school library

Forthcoming May 2009 for primary & secondary schools

A comprehensive guide for school librarians. Full of inspiring ideas to increase the popularity and raise the profile of your library.


Tells you how to create a positive relationship between the library and the school, build cross-curricular links, and offer exciting facilities with the aim of providing an outstanding school library service.


• Pinpoints key guidelines and requirements for school libraries
• Ideas for quizzes, activities & events
• How to make reading cool, encourage interest in books, and increase library use
• How to get the support of the SMT, extra funding and inclusion of the library in the whole school policy
• Ways to involve the library across all departments
• Library-specific advice on behavioural management, training and staffing
• Interviews with heads and librarians
• Includes cd for easy printing
• £1 discount for subscribers to our
Reading and Primary Library posters


Louise Heyden, the author, is a former school library manager from Essex, where she successfully ran two secondary school libraries. With a background in media and advertising, she is passionate about creatively promoting the importance of reading and believes every child deserves access to an outstanding school library.


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Booked In! offer for Reading and Primary Library posters subscribers

Booked In! offer for Reading and Primary Library posters subscribers

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thereadinggame

The Reading Game

A runaway sucess!

• A sure-fire way to get young people reading

• Quick & easy to set up

• Gripping and highly motivating

• For any age from 8 years old

• Use with any books

• Any number can play

• Introduces fiction genres

• Instantly adapted to any library / LRC

• Encourages wide reading

• Extremely flexible

• For both fiction and non fiction

• A must for Reading Clubs

Some children and young people restrict their reading to one genre, or worse, hardly read at all. The Reading Game is the answer to this problem because it introduces a wide range of books in a fun and imaginative way. It is totally flexible - you choose the books according to the children you are working with.

You'll find that at the end of a session children are queuing up to borrow books that they would never have dreamt of reading!

"All the children’s comments were positive e.g. enjoyable, fun, would like to do it again with different genres, found out there were good books in every genre, would like to read some of the books, etc. The Reading Game is very successful in introducing children to a range of good books, reinforcing their understanding of genre, developing good quality discussion and evaluation and whetting their appetites to read. It can easily be adapted to the requirements of the 'Literacy Hour', to a general English lesson, as well as to the Library activity for which it was first developed. I will definitely use it regularly."
NATE (National Association for the Teaching of English)


"Fast, noisy ... and original: Could be just what teachers of reluctant readers have been waiting for. ... It is fast, noisy and fun. It can be useful for teaching pupils about the division of books into different genres and encouraging them to try ones they wouldn't normally consider."
TES


"Fantastic"
Margaret Drinkwater, School Library Service Manager, Leeds

£5 discount for primary schools off the full price of £37.50

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primarylibraryposters

Reading & Primary Library posters

A monthly series of eye-catching A4 pdf posters with a personalised poster

Instantly promote & brighten your library!

• Raise the profile of reading and the library
• Stunning photos with key messages
• Free Welcome poster with your school name

Every primary school can receive one of these posters FREE! Email us to receive your 'Library: full of surprises' poster - 'See More' link above.

"Great posters. Real value for money."
Geoff Dubber, Chair, School Library Association


A year's subscription:12 A4 pdf posters plus personalised Welcome poster £15 + vat

(Click here for the secondary version of these posters)

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LinksPlus Online for primary schools

LinksPlus Online for primary schools

• The online database of the best websites for primary school use

• Thousands of teacher-reviewed, approved and annotated web sites

• Ensures that web searching is fast, focused and fruitful

• A great library resource. Updated termly

• Easy to search by key word, learning area and category

"The really useful curriculum based resource"
School Library Association newsletter



Ask for a month's free trial email us.

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LinksPlus MARC for primary schools

LinksPlus MARC for primary schools

• Easy-to-use directory of the web sites most frequently requested by learners when using the library

• About 200 up to date and relevant web sites are added each term

• Each site is annotated and placed under a school subject heading

• Sites are carefully chosen for their educational relevance

• Can be loaded into a school library catalogue

• Each term the whole file is updated


From: £39.95 + vat
Offer on both LinksPlus Online and LinksPlus MARC

Offer on both LinksPlus Online and LinksPlus MARC

Save £19.95!

From: £59.95 + vat
readplusprimary

ReadPlus

ReadPlus is a new, invaluable, online fiction database arranged by themes. It provides lists, reviews and resources for librarians & teachers.

For KS2 and beyond

• Create fiction lists based on: theme, author, title, film, resources and awards.
• Author profiles, reviews, book news, free resources and in-depth book features.
• Compiled by experienced teachers and librarians
• For English teachers and librarians

Lesson plans and additional resources are available from the website to assist in guiding teachers, students and readers.

Learn more here

This unique digital resource is outstanding value at only £29.95 + vat for a primary school annual subscription including site licence.

FIRM ORDER ONLY: Ask for a week's free trial email us.


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LibraryCodecrackerFullColourWallChart

Library Codecracker Wall Chart

Key library subjects with classification numbers (eg Sport 796).

88x 63cm

"Ideal"
Junior Education

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FindingInformationposter

Finding Information poster

A humorous & helpful poster.

47x 65cm.

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TheLibraryBook

The Library Book

Getting to know your library's secrets
• introduces pupils to the school library.
• lesson plans in the style of the National Literacy Strategy
• many & varied activities - often cross-curricular
• copiable

"Excellent. Very useful."
Heather Handley, Brittons School


Each school has to decide how best to plan and deliver pupils' introduction to the library. This book covers key areas: finding your way round the library; finding fiction; the classification system; the subject index; alphabetical order skills; dictionaries, atlases, encyclopedias; library test; different styles of writing and reading; refining your search; resources other than books; role of the librarian; libraries nationwide.

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Quirkyquizzesforlivelylibraries

Quirky quizzes for lively libraries

• Hundreds of questions to challenge pupils - suitable for Y6.

• Instant, copiable, no preparation needed!

Two books with quizzes and puzzles from many learning areas to develop and practise research skills. Students will use a range of reference sources including encyclopaedias, dictionaries, atlases and search engines to find answers.

Plus:
• warm-up brain teasers
• extension activities including challenging crosswords and word searches

52pp each, £17.50, both vols for £29.95.

"The purpose is to provoke research and discussion, not just stir the memory. Some queries will send pupils to dictionaries, encyclopedias and the internet. Others will make fruitful argument flow."
TES

"Fabulous"
Sarah Weeks, Kingdown School

"Brilliant"
Wendy Mann, The Stanway School, Colchester


Select which volume you would like:

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Both Quirky quizzes Volumes Offer

Both Quirky quizzes Volumes Offer

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EarthBalls

EarthBalls

• Shows the world as it appears from space using NASA satellite imagery. with NightGlow Cities - see the world's cities glowing at night!

• The most visually authentic world replicas available like observing Earth from orbit


• Comes with 20 page handbook full of Earth facts, fun and games


• Order an EarthBall and 'Give them the World!'


Inflatable, diameter: 40cm
£11.91 + vat. Offer: 2 for £21.27 + vat. Save £2.99

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