These materials have been designed by an advisory teacher to use as classroom activities in the autumn term, for children to share their reading preferences and experiences.

They are based around some of the content of the Team Read Summer Reading Challenge and the Team Read website at www.teamread.co.uk.

These activities can be used with classes where some students have taken part in the summer reading challenge, whilst others are new to the concept.

Activity Sheets

Team Read Goalie Wall Chart (pdf, 866kb) and Guide (pdf, 466kb)
"Beat the goalie to get your last book in the net. But if your book wasn’t a winner, it will miss the goal altogether!” Simply use round post-it notes as footballs. Each child writes down the title of the last book they read, then sticks it on the wall chart inside or outside the goalposts.
Team Read Follow-up Activities: Overview* (Word, 74kb)
Ideas for classroom display, website activities and notes on the lesson plans.
Team Read Lesson Plans* (Word, 43kb)
A sequence of two lessons to consolidate and extend students’ experience of taking part in the Team Read challenge during the summer holidays.
Team Read Training Log* (Word, 366kb)
Create a training log (reading journal) for Team Reads, for children to record their responses to the books they’ve read. Print this cover out at the appropriate size and stick it on the front of an exercise book.
Team Read Training Activities* (Word, 22kb)
Choose from this range of ‘training activities’, aimed at capturing the responses of students to the book they have just read. Adapt according to age and stage of students and attach inside the front cover of the Training Log.
Training Log Response Sheet A - page 1* and page 2* (Word, 21kb)
Captures children’s responses to the books they’ve just been reading. Used for group work
Training Log Response Sheet B* (Word, 25kb)
Captures children’s responses to the books they’ve just been reading. Used for group work.
Activity Sheet 4 - Bookmark (Word, 1547kb)
Each child can complete a bookmark with marks out of 10 and an overall rating for their last book.

Further Team Read Activity Sheets

Rampometer (pdf, 1544kb) and Skateboard Ramp (pdf 26kb)
Another great visual way to show how much children have enjoyed their last book. Create a wall size skateboard ramp and give each child a character to colour in – the title of their book goes on the skateboard and gets put at the top or the bottom of the ramp according to how much they enjoyed the read!
Cheerleader chant (pdf, 1429kb)
An activity sheet to encourage children to write their own cheerleader chant about their favourite book. 2,4,6,8…
Champion reads (pdf, 1,441kb)
For display in the classroom – a trophy for capturing book reviews, and awarding books a bronze, silver or gold medal – or the wooden spoon!

You can also look at the activities suggested for Year 7 students and pick out any that you feel will work with your classes.

*Lesson plan ideas and resources created by the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE).