Welcome to International Port, one of 20 exciting themes featured in The Reading Journey App.
Each pack consists of 10 carefully selected titles, designed to support independent reading and to encourage reading for pleasure and wider reading.
Packs are curated to include a selection of accessible, challenging books, with the core matching the expected range.
Please note that our themed packs are a selection of books from the core Reading Journey packs.
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Most of the book choices children make are stories set in the UK, USA or in fantasy worlds. The books in this pack are carefully selected to include a range of settings from or inspired by different places from around the world. They raise interesting questions about culture and community. While themes of hardship and survival feature, there is also much to discover about what we have in common with peoples across the globe.
The way new books are introduced into the class book corner or library can make a huge difference to children’s interest and engagement. For each of our themes, we have asked class teachers to introduce the books and then make some suggestions for ways of presenting them to the class
When children are reading different books it can still be beneficial to have book conversations which make connections across a range of reading material. Here are some suggestions for talk about books that link by focussing in one way or another on the past.
Some questions to consider:
Use a ‘Making connections’ table to draw comparisons and stimulate discussion about text to self, text to text and text to world connections.
Text to self
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Text to Text
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Text to World
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Text to Self: Reminds me of things that have happened to me
Text to Text: Reminds me of books I have read, pictures or films that I have seen
Text to World: Reminds me of things that are happening in the world
Welcome to "International Port", one of 20 exciting themes featured in The Reading Journey App. Each pack consists of 10 carefully selected titles, designed to support independent reading and to encourage... Read more
Darryl Crawley is Deputy Headteacher at Rodings Primary School, where he has designed a whole school mastery curriculum balancing skills and knowledge. He is passionate about reading and children’s literature and has recently redeveloped the school’s library and is leading the school’s new radio station. Darryl welcomes working collaboratively with colleagues on projects to promote reading and writing across the primary curriculum.