Free teaching resources from HarperCollins Children's Books, publisher of timeless classics such as The Chronicles of Narnia and The Hobbit, as well as perennial family favourites like Judith Kerr’s The Tiger who Came to Tea and Michael Bond's Paddington. HarperCollins Children's Books is also home to some of the most popular authors in children’s literature today, including David Walliams, Derek Landy, Michael Morpurgo, Louise Rennison and Oliver Jeffers.
Free teaching resources from HarperCollins Children's Books, publisher of timeless classics such as The Chronicles of Narnia and The Hobbit, as well as perennial family favourites like Judith Kerr’s The Tiger who Came to Tea and Michael Bond's Paddington. HarperCollins Children's Books is also home to some of the most popular authors in children’s literature today, including David Walliams, Derek Landy, Michael Morpurgo, Louise Rennison and Oliver Jeffers.
Download this free bundle of resources for Oliver Jeffers’ incredible picture book Here We Are.
Design a guide leaflet to inform other people about how they can take care of planet Earth, design a poster to welcome someone to planet Earth, and learn about the stars in the sky!
The Ice Monster, the epic adventure from multi-million bestselling author David Walliams, takes our heroine Elsie on a voyage from the Natural History Museum to the icy North Pole! At the Museum, she meets the wicked Professor, who brings the Ice Monster back to life with his incredible machine…
This British Science Week, we’re celebrating the amazing scientific achievements of the Natural History Museum, and imagining all the marvelous inventions we could create!
Suitable for KS2 pupils.
These beautifully designed teaching resources are based on Toto, written by Michael Morpurgo, illustrated by Emma Chichester Clark. They provide a great variety of fun, curriculum-based activities for children to enjoy and learn from at the same time!
Show and Tell is the fantastically funny new picture book from award-winning and bestselling creative star Rob Biddulph! School has never been so fun!
Grow a sunflower, make a volcano, or open a cosmic museum - or many other things besides! This KS1 Teaching Resource pack is jammed with creative and fun activities that will engage all of Biddulph’s readers.
Boy Giant is a stunning story of hope, humanity and high-seas adventure for children and adults everywhere from Sir Michael Morpurgo, the nation’s favourite storyteller and multi-million copy bestselling author of WAR HORSE.
This Teach Primary KS2 teaching resource pack includes an article full of inspiring teaching ideas for Boy Giant, as well as FIVE worksheets with suggestions for how to use these in lessons!
Written by former Children’s Laureate Lauren Child MBE, ‘Hubert Horatio: How to Raise Your Grown-Ups’ is a hilarious and gloriously illustrated book for ages 6+.
These accompanying teaching resources work within the National Curriculum and are filled with fun activities that will engage even reluctant readers!
From wordsearches to designing a garden and vocabulary games to crosswords, there’s something for everyone in this pack!
These KS2 Pages & Co. resources include tasks on creating your own poster, writing a character interview, filling out a police report, a quiz and more!
For children aged 9+.
A bundle of 12 KS2-aligned resources to accompany David’s Baddiel’s body-swap blockbuster novel Head Kid! These resources encourage the reader to:
Develop positive attitudes to reading
Understand what they read in books they can read independently
Identify themes and conventions in fiction books
Participate in discussion about books
Explain the meaning of words in context
Identify how language, structure, and presentation contribute to meaning
Ask questions to improve their understanding of a text
A bundle of five KS2-aligned teaching resources on David Baddiel’s hilarious blockbuster novel The Parent Agency. These resources encourage the reader to:
Use spoken language to speculate and explore ideas
Grow their confidence and competence in using spoken language and listening skills
Engage critically with the story
Write imaginatively focusing on creative uses of language
Be an active and critical reader
A comprehensive set of Key Stage 2 teaching resources to use with Boy Underwater by Adam Baron - named Waterstones Children’s Book of the Month, June 2018.
Twenty-seven activities in all - one for each chapter of the book to facilitate classroom while reading the book together without having to wait to finish. Most chapters also have discussion points.
Curriculum links covered include:
Understand what they read - asking and answering questions to improve their understanding
Understand what they read - identifying how language, structure and presentation contribute to meaning
Understand what they read - discuss and evaluate how authors use language
Understand what they read - drawing inferences such as character’s feelings, thoughts and motives
Understand what they read - checking that the book makes sense to them, discussing understanding and exploring the meaning of words in context
Understand what they read - summarizing the main ideas, identifying key details to support
Understand what they read - predicting what might happen from details supplied and implied
Maintain positive attitudes to reading - identifying and discussing themes and conventions
Maintain positive attitudes to reading - preparing poems and plays to read aloud and perform
Maintain positive attitudes to reading - recommending books that they have read to their peers
Maintain positive attitudes to reading - increasing their familiarity with a wide range of books
Maintain positive attitudes to reading - participate in discussions about books
Maintain positive attitudes to reading - explain and discuss their understanding of what they have read
Discuss and evaluate how authors use language
A pack of eleven resource sheets for Key Stage 2 classes related to The Sand Dog by Sarah Lean - author of A Dog Called Homeless.
English curriculum links covered include:
Maintain positive attitudes to reading - increasing familiarity with wide range of books
Understand what they read - drawing inferences such as character’s feelings, thoughts, motives and justifying with evidence
Understand what they read - identify how language, structure and presentation contribute to meaning
Understand what they read - checking the text makes sense to them, asking questions to improve understanding
Understand what they read - summarize the main ideas and identify key details to support them
Cross-curricular links included: Geography
Learn how to draw Bad Nana’s adorable cat Liberace with this handy guide!
Bad Nana is a KS1-aligned, highly illustrated series for young readers.
Bad Nana: Older Not Wiser is available now.
Be like Jeanie and make your own cool badges!
Bad Nana is a KS1-aligned, highly illustrated series for young readers.
Bad Nana: Older Not Wiser is available now.
Help Bad Nana finish her shopping by drawing what’s in her trolley!
Bad Nana is a KS1-aligned, highly illustrated series for young readers.
Bad Nana: Older Not Wiser is available now.
Use this guide to translate Bad Nana’s old-fashioned lingo!
Bad Nana is a KS1-aligned, highly illustrated series for young readers.
Bad Nana: Older Not Wiser is available now.