Free Packs
Each year we produce several free packs for schools to use – covering topical areas like Reading Catch Up, Peer to Peer reading and advice for parents on reading to children at home. You can access them below – we hope you find them useful.
You can use these with any issue of Storytime, or even download them to use with your own materials. To download a pack just click on the image, or contact us at hello@storytimemagazine.com and we can email it to you.
Reading Catch Up Pack:
The last year has made it a bit difficult to maintain reading habits – so this pack has been specially designed to make reading stories into an exciting challenge!
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- Advice for Teachers, Parents and Carers
- A World of Stories!
- Which Story Should I Read?
- The Parts of a Story!
- Who’s Your Hero?
- Let’s Go on a Story Hunt!
- Write a Story Review!
- Word Quest!
- Grammar Master!
- Draw It!
- Reading Fun Cards!
- Weekly Reading Chart
- Reading Reward Bookmarks
- Top Tips to Keep Reading
Storytime Home Reading Pack:
Reading to children at home is one of the most effective ways of improving literacy. This pack has advice for parents to get the best out of this time:
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- Reading to your children – some common questions
- Five different reading styles to try
- Top ten tips for home reading
- Barriers to reading to your kids… and how to knock them down
- Reading rewards
- Home reading chart
- Reading Star badges
Storytime Reading Buddies Pack:
Everything you need to set up a peer to peer reading scheme in your school. The pack includes:
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- How to set up a Reading Buddies Scheme in eight easy steps.
- 10 Top Tips for older reading buddies on how to share stories with younger readers.
- Progress cards for both reading buddies, so they can keep track of their sessions together.
- Printable badges to give to reading buddies.
- Certificates for reading buddies.
- Drawing, writing and storyboard sheets to use after each Reading Buddy session.
Storytime Magazine Maker Teaching Resource Pack:
Teach your class how to make their own magazine with our Storytime Magazine Maker pack:
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- Things to Think About Before Getting Started
- Choosing Your Subject – Ideas and Worksheet
- Picking a Title – Examples, Ideas & Prompts
- Inside Your Magazine – Thinking About Content
- Making a Flatplan – Plus 8, 12 and 16 Page Plans
- Making a Moodboard – Ideas for How It Could Look
- Designing Your Cover – Plus Cover Templates
- Writing and Structuring Your Magazine
- Choosing Your Pictures – Examples and Guidance
Storytime Myths and Legends Teaching Resource Pack:
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- What is a myth fact sheet
- What is a legend fact sheet
- Top Tens: mythical heroes, mythical gods, mythical monsters, legendary heroes, legendary beasts
- Create a myth or legend
- Hero’s Quest Story Mountain
- Three Picture Frames Heroes and Gods, Mythical Monsters and Legendary Creatures
- Storytime Biography Sheet and Checklist
- Storytime Diary Sheet
- Fold a Monster!
- Myth or Legend Sheet
- Myth and Match Game
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Storytime Fable Teaching Resource Pack:
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- Aesop Fact Sheet with Lesson Ideas
- What Is a Fable? with Lesson Ideas
- Create a Fable! with Lesson Ideas
- Animal Adjectives Sheet
- Storytime Problem and Solution Sheet
- Storytime Story Planner
- Storytime Storyboards
- Storytime Picture Frame
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Storytime Fairy Tale Teaching Resource Pack:
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- Brothers Grimm Fact Sheet with lesson ideas
- Hans C Andersen Fact Sheet with lesson ideas
- Charles Perrault Fact Sheet with lesson ideas
- What Is a Fairy Tale? with lesson ideas
- Create a Fairy Tale Sheet
- Favourite Fairy Tale Survey Sheet
- Fairy Tale Creator Cards – 4 sheets of 24 cards
- Fairy Tale Detective Sheet
- Fairy Tale Story Sheet
- Hero and Heroine Adjectives Sheet
- Fairy Tale Baddy Adjectives Sheet
- Fairy Tale Match Game
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Storytime Poetry for Kids Teaching Resource Pack:
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- What is a Poem? Fact Sheet
- Different Types of Poem
- Poetry Techniques
- Rhyming for Beginners
- Rhyming Sheet
- Poetic Pairs Sheet
- Pass the Poem Sheet
- Finish the Poem Sheet
- Write a Poem! Sheets
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