Three-page PDF featuring KS2 activity ideas
KS2
Years 3-6
Take a journey through the extraordinary pages of A Child of Books with these cross-curricular KS2 activity ideas…
A Child of Books by Sam Winston and Oliver Jeffers stops you in your tracks and reminds you why you became a teacher in the first place.
The book is an invitation to explore the purpose of reading and its place in our identity. Its message is clear – everyone should have the chance to be a child of books.
This title provides the perfect opportunity for teachers, KS2 pupils and parents to pause and take stock of our reading.
A week away from the curriculum spent exploring this treasure of a book is a chance to ground your teaching of reading in its true purpose. It will also help to instil lasting and vitally important messages in pupils and parents.
What is A Child of Books about?
A Child of Books takes us on a journey of celebration. Both of its makers describe it in just three words: ‘ode to literature’ and ‘world of words’. It is indeed both.
The book follows a confident little girl, our child of books, as she leads her friend on a journey through a world of stories.
Along the way we are taken on a homage to children’s literature, as a myriad of genres are revealed across each spread. These are brought alive by typographic landscapes ingeniously created with the language of those classics.
By the end of the book, the girl’s friend – a more timid reader perhaps – grows in confidence and stature as he discovers that this world of stories is also his world.
Judy Clark is a freelance primary literacy consultant and primary adviser for the National Literacy Trust. She also lectures in English on a range of ITT programmes. Download KS2 resources for teaching Oliver Jeffers’ book The Fate of Fausto.
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