Resources for your groups
When you've joined Chatterbooks we will send you the children's Chatterbooks packs which you have ordered and we will email you the handbook, latest newsletter, publishers' supplement, and ideas pack.
Further resources:
Session record sheets
You can use these Chatterbooks session record sheets.pdf to gather and keep information, observations and feedback about your group and its activities.
Questionnaires about children's reading
These two questionnaires can be used to explore children's feelings about their reading when they join a Chatterbooks group, and then to see if there are any changes after they have been in the group for a while.
You could introduce them as a session activity.
Chatterbooks children's reading questionnaire 1.doc
Chatterbooks children's reading questionnaire 2.doc
Chatterpacks
These are special downloadable packs featuring particular themes or book titles, with activity sheets, book lists and lots of ideas for sessions.
Chatterpacks will be available to buy from our Shop - for Chatterbooks network members they will be free, or available at a discount. We'll let you know when the next pack is available.
Here is a sample Chatterpack which you can download free, featuring the book and the film 'The Tale of Despereaux'
Tale of Despereaux Chatterpack l.pdf
Two new Chatterpacks from Puffin
Tom Palmer football_chatterpack.pdf
Kane Chronicles Chatterpack.pdf
Activity sheets from Publishers
Here are some activity sheets you can download to use with the fiction sampler books sent to your group from Simon and Schuster.
An Awfully Beastly Business
Great Hamster Massacre 1
Great Hamster Massacre 2
Doctor Proctor 1
Doctor Proctor 2
Doctor Proctor 3
Tumtum and Nutmeg recipe sheets! to share with your groups doing Egmont's letter writing competition
Tumtum and Nutmeg Chocolate_Crunchies.pdf
Tumtum and Nutmeg Cinnamon_Toast.pdf
Tumtum and Nutmeg Gingerbread_Men.pdf
Tumtum and Nutmeg Treacle_Tart.pdf
New from Puffin
You can download here the new Puffin Handbook.pdf, a handy guide to 70 great books for children, celebrating 70 years of Puffin Books.
Great Links!
Faber's new Grubtown website
Drawing on the weird and wonderful characters and settings from all six Grubtown books, www.visitgrubtown.com features six distinct Grubtown locations - including the fan favourites: the Daily Herald newspaper office, the Duckhouse/Museum and Smoky's cinema. From April 29 until June 3, a new location unlocks each week, treating users to a special Grubtown story, delivered in instalments. Readers are encouraged to interact with characters and objects, and can discover exclusive downloads.
Judy Moody Chatterpack from Walker - celebrating ten mega-moody Judy Moody years!
Judy_Moody_Chatterpack.pdf
Judy Moody activity sheets.pdf
Two great Chatterpacks from Scholastic
For you to download - full of ideas and activities:
Joshua Files Chatterpack.pdf
NB The closing date for the competition in this pack is 31st July 2010.
and
You can't eat a princess Chatterpack.pdf
