Week 3 of Non-Fiction November

Monday 23rd November 2020

We can’t believe we’re writing about week 3 of the Non-Fiction November Challenge – where does the time go! It’s been a busy week for us at Reading Chest with lots book swapping and exciting giveaways but the Reading Chest Team (Liz, Caroline & Jess) have continued to read a non-fiction book every day and document their favourite facts. This week we launched our non-fi...

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Week 2 of Non-Fiction November!

Friday 13th November 2020

We are loving Non-fiction November at Reading Chest! We have learnt so many interesting facts this week as the Reading Chest Team (Liz, Caroline & Jess) continue to read our own nonfiction children’s reading scheme books every day in November – This week we read: Atlantic Adventure , purple book band - Project X Charles Dickens, lime book band - Collins Big Cat Different...

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Non-Fiction November!

Friday 6th November 2020

It’s National Non-fiction November! When children are learning to read, fiction is sometimes favoured over non-fiction. This could be due to the lack of accessibility to good quality non-fiction books at the correct reading level. We are lucky enough to have over 700 different non-fiction titles at Reading Chest - so we thought we would set ourselves an office challenge… The Readi...

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Back to School. Back to Normal?

Friday 11th September 2020

 With children up and down the country finally back in the classroom – getting their reading mojo back will be a high priority. Here are some of Reading Chest’s top tips to get your child’s reading back on track as they start the new school term: • Do not compare your child’s reading level to others in the class. After almost 6 months out of the classroom, t...

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New Normal at Reading Chest

Friday 7th August 2020

How we’ve kept our books safe and useable during lockdown…. There is no doubt this has been an incredibly challenging time for everybody. Now that it feels as though things are starting to move forward from the pandemic and hopefully into a ‘new normal’ we thought we’d let you know how we have kept our service going, how we’ve had to modify the day to day ru...

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