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National Storytelling Week 2025 Activities, Events and Resources | National Literacy Trust | National Literacy Trust

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Storytelling ideas and activities for teachers in primary and secondary schools, and professionals in early years settings to celebrate National Storytelling Week 2025.

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World Book Day and National Storytelling Week 2025 Resources

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A collection of teaching resources for primary and secondary pupils, perfect for inspiring your class with the joy of reading for World Book Day and National Storytelling Week.

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National Storytelling Week - KS1 | Ages 5-7 | Primary Topic Packs - BBC Bitesize

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Learn about National Storytelling Week with fun interactive videos, activities, downloads, and quizzes for KS1 school children.

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To celebrate the start of National Storytelling Week 2025, the UKLA Storytelling Special Interest Group is offering a CPD event for teachers and other education professionals who want to make oral storytelling part of their classroom practice and encourage children in their own storytelling.

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Storytelling, Oracy and the Curriculum: Making Connections

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Storytelling, Oracy and the Curriculum: Making Connections - To celebrate the start of National Storytelling Week 2025, the UKLA Storytelling Special Interest Group is offering a CPD event for teachers and...

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Storytelling is a great way to spend quality time together.Niall shares tips and ideas to make storytelling enjoyable, accessible and easy for you to do at home.

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Bath Central Library BookTrust Storytime - BaNES Virtual Library

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Join us for a special BookTrust Storytime at Bath Central Library! This is a drop in event. Free, drop in Storytime session at Bath Central Library. Suitable for parents and […]

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Bath Sensory Storytelling Sessions - PAYG - Wednesday 25th January 2023 - Adventure Babies

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This is a PAYG for Wednesday 11th January 2023 Cost £9.00 Class Times 10:30 am - Active Adventurers - Toddlers and confident crawlers 11:30am - Mini Adventurers - Babies who are crawling, younger babies are welcome to join this class too. 12:30 pm - Tiny Adventurers - Littlest babies who are not yet crawling. Venue My Bath sensory storytelling sessions for babies and toddlers take place at The All Saints Centre, which is in the heart of Weston. There is an added bonus of a car park (postcode for carpark is BA1 4ER) and there are plenty of cafe’s nearby for a cuppa before or after your class. Social media: Don’t forget to follow and like my Facebook and Instagram pages for all the latest Adventure Babies news.

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These free sessions take place from 10.30am - 11.00am every Thursday during term time on the following days. No need to book, just drop in!

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Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once

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29,725 books based on 106960 votes: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling, Pride and Prejudice by...

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Perhaps better known for her screenwriting ( Silkwood, When Harry Met Sally, Heartburn), Ephron's brand of smart theatrical humour is on best display in her essays. Confiding and self-deprecating, she has a way of always managing to sound like your best friend - even when writing about her apartment on New York's Upper West Side. This wildly enjoyable collection includes her droll observations about ageing, vanity - and a scorching appraisal of Bill Clinton.
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The Congolese writer says he was "trying to break the French language" with Broken Glass - a black comedy told by a disgraced teacher without much in the way of full stops or paragraph breaks. As Mabanckou's unreliable narrator munches his "bicycle chicken" and drinks his red wine, it becomes clear he has the history of Congo-Brazzaville and the whole of French literature in his sights.
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A Whitbread prizewinning memoir, full of perfectly chosen phrases,
that is one of the best accounts of family dysfunction ever written.
Sage grew up with her grandparents, who hated each other: he was a drunken philandering vicar; his wife, having found his diaries,
blackmailed him and lived in another part of the house. The
author gets unwittingly pregnant at 16, yet the story has a happy
ending.
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Set in an alternative Britain, this groundbreaking piece of young adult fiction sees black people, called the Crosses, hold all the power and influence, while the noughts - white people - are marginalised and segregated. The former children's laureate's series is a crucial work for explaining racism to young readers.

This may not be the only account of living in a religious household in the American midwest (in her youth, the author joined a group called God's Gang, where they spoke in tongues), but it is surely the funniest. The author started out as the "poet laureate of Twitter"; her language is brilliant, and she has a completely original mind.
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Melancholic and transcendent, Chiang's eight, high-concept sci-fi stories exploring the nature of language, maths, religion and physics racked up numerous awards and a wider audience when 'Story of Your Life' was adapted into the 2016 film .
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An eye-opening study, based on overwhelming evidence, which revealed
that among rich countries, the "more equal societies almost always do
better" for all. Growth matters less than inequality, the authors
argued: whether the issue is life expectancy, infant mortality, crime
rates, obesity, literacy or recycling, the Scandinavian countries,
say, will always win out over, say, the UK.
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Jemisin became the first African American author to win the best novel category at the Hugo awards for her first book in the Broken Earth trilogy. In her intricate and richly imagined far future universe, the world is ending, ripped apart by relentless earthquakes and volcanoes. Against this apocalyptic backdrop she explores urgent questions of power and enslavement through the eyes of three women. "As this genre finally acknowledges that the dreams of the marginalised matter and that all of us have a future," she said in her acceptance speech, "so will go the world. (Soon, I hope.)"

The Spanish master examines chance, love and death in the story of an apparently random killing that gradually reveals hidden depths. Marías constructs an elegant murder mystery from his trademark labyrinthine sentences, but this investigation is in pursuit of much meatier questions than whodunnit.Read the review

One of Canada's most celebrated poets examines love and desire in a collection that describes itself as "a fictional essay in 39 tangos". Carson charts the course of a doomed marriage in loose-limbed lines that follow the switchbacks of thought and feeling from first meeting through multiple infidelities to arrive at eventual divorce.

Photograph: Robert Macfarlane's Underland (Hamish Hamilton).

A beautifully written and profound book, which takes the form of a
series of (often hair-raising and claustrophobic) voyages underground
- from the fjords of the Arctic to the Parisian catacombs. Trips below
the surface inspire reflections on "deep" geological time and raise
urgent questions about the human impact on planet Earth.
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Based on Beard's lectures on women's voices and how they have been silenced, Women and Power was an enormous publishing success in the "#MeToo"' year 2017. An exploration of misogyny, the origins of "gendered speech" in the classical era and the problems the male world has with strong women, this slim manifesto became an instant feminist classic.
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Satrapi's autobiographical graphic novel follows her coming-of-age in the lead up to and during the Iranian revolution. In this riotous memoir, Satrapi focuses on one young life to reveal a hidden history.

The author of The Big Short has made a career out of rendering the most opaque subject matter entertaining and comprehensible: Moneyball tells the story of how geeks outsmarted jocks to revolutionise baseball using maths. But you do not need to know or care about the sport, because - as with all Lewis's best writing - it's all about how the story is told.
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Set around the unlikely bond between two wartime friends, Smith's debut brilliantly captures Britain's multicultural spirit, and offers a compelling insight into immigrant family life.

In this exquisite family memoir, the ceramicist explains how he came to inherit a collection of 264 netsuke - small Japanese ornaments - from his great-uncle. The unlikely survival of the netsuke entails De Waal telling a story that moves from Paris to Austria under the Nazis to Japan, and he beautifully conjures a sense of place. The book doubles as a set of profound reflections on objects and what they mean to us.
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This startling work of autofiction, which signalled a new direction for Cusk, follows an author teaching a creative writing course over one hot summer in Athens. She leads storytelling exercises. She meets other writers for dinner. She hears from other people about relationships, ambition, solitude, intimacy and "the disgust that exists indelibly between men and women". The end result is sublime.
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The first instalment of Knausgaard's relentlessly self-examining six-volume seriesMy Struggle revolves around the life and death of his alcoholic father. Whether or not you regard him as the Proust of memoir, his compulsive honesty created a new benchmark for autofiction.
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Emerging from Solomon's own painful experience, this "anatomy" of depression examines its many faces - plus its science, sociology and treatment. The book's combination of honesty, scholarly rigour and poetry made it a benchmark in literary memoir and understanding of mental health.
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Fifteen-year-old Christopher John Francis Boone becomes absorbed in the mystery of a dog's demise, meticulously investigating through diagrams, timetables, maps and maths problems. Haddon's fascinating portrayal of an unconventional mind was a crossover hit with both adults and children and was adapted into a very successful stage play.
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The science journalist examines with clarity and memorable detail the current crisis of plant and animal loss caused by human civilisation (over the past half billion years, there have been five mass extinctions on Earth; we are causing another). Kolbert considers both ecosystems - the Great Barrier Reef, the Amazon rainforest - and the lives of some extinct and soon-to-be extinct creatures including the Sumatran rhino and "the most beautiful bird in the world", the black-faced honeycreeper of Maui.
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Powerfully intimate and unashamedly domestic, the first in Ferrante's Neapolitan series established her as a literary sensation. This and the three novels that followed documented the ways misogyny and violence could determine lives, as well as the history of Italy in the late 20th century.

Sebald died in a car crash in 2001, but his genre-defying mix of fact and fiction, keen sense of the moral weight of history and interleaving of inner and outer journeys have had a huge influence on the contemporary literary landscape. His final work, the typically allusive life story of one man, charts the Jewish disapora and lost 20th century with heartbreaking power. Read the review

From his 1989 Booker winner The Remains of the Day to 2015's The Buried Giant, Nobel laureate Ishiguro writes profound, puzzling allegories about history, nationalism and the individual's place in a world that is always beyond our understanding. His sixth novel, a love triangle set among human clones in an alternative 1990s England, brings exquisite understatement to its exploration of mortality, loss and what it means to be human.
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The Belarusian Nobel laureate recorded thousands of hours of testimony from ordinary people to create this oral history of the Soviet Union and its end. Writers, waiters, doctors, soldiers, former Kremlin apparatchiks, gulag survivors: all are given space to tell their stories, share their anger and betrayal, and voice their worries about the transition to capitalism. An unforgettable book, which is both an act of catharsis and a profound demonstration of empathy.

To order any of these titles go to guardianbookshop.com or call 0330 333 6846. Free UK p&p over £15, online orders only. Phone orders min p&p of £1.99.

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Perhaps better known for her screenwriting ( Silkwood, When Harry Met Sally , Heartburn), Ephron's brand of smart theatrical humour is on best display in her essays. Confiding and self-deprecating, she has a way of always managing to sound like your best friend - even when writing about her apartment on New York's Upper West Side.

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London Theatre shows based on books now playing in London | West End Theatre

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The Storyteller of Bath (and Bristol) – Giles Abbott

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Humans have been telling stories to each other since for centuries. In many ways, telling each other stories is part of what makes us human. It’s how we pass on important lessons in ways that will be remembered. It stirs up our imaginations in ways that can lead us to new and useful ideas and it’s just fun! The majority of our most popular forms of entertainment involve telling some kind of narrative. National Storytelling Week is all about celebrating stories. But how do you put together a lesson plan around storytelling for your students? Well, if you need some National Storytelling Week ideas, this resource sheet is a great place to start. It’s quick to download, and is easy to print out. It includes links to additional resources too. This resource sheet contains plenty of National Storytelling Week activity ideas for you to make use of in your lessons. These ideas are fun activities that do not require excessive amounts of resources for you to provide and you can pick and choose what suits you and your class.

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Storytelling Ideas for Inspiration | 10 Easy Ideas for National Storytelling Week | Sparks Film and Media Arts

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Find 10 creative storytelling ideas to join in with National Storytelling Week. Whilst Storytelling Week is usually celebrated in schools, everyone can benefit from storytelling fun.

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National Storytelling Week is an annual celebration of the art of storytelling that takes place in the Spring term.

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During two of the Coronavirus lockdowns Malcolm and I did a lot of filming at home. The result was two series of broadcasts, called "Julia Donaldson and Friends". These went out weekly to children cooped up at home. I read some of the stories, showing pictures from the books, while others I acted out with Malcolm. We even went into a local Deep Dark Wood to film The Gruffalo. The "Friends" are all the lovely illustrators, who took part in the broadcasts, filming themselves drawing characters from the books.

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During two of the Coronavirus lockdowns Malcolm and I did a lot of filming at home. The result was two series of broadcasts, called "Julia Donaldson and Friends". These went out weekly to children cooped up at home. I read some of the stories, showing pictures from the books, while others I acted out with Malcolm.

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How to Tell a Story Effectively: 7 Storytelling Tips - 2023 - MasterClass

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Storytelling allowed people to make sense of the world and derive deeper meaning from their lives since the beginning of human history. The techniques and delivery methods of good storytelling may have changed since then, but the power of storytelling to move us and provoke a deeper sense of connect…

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Telling your children stories is a great bonding experience and a fantastic way to develop their literacy and emotional skills. Here are our top storytelling tips for sharing the magic of stories with children.

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10 tips on how to share stories with children

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Sharing stories aloud is a fantastically fun way to celebrate the joys of books and spark young imaginations. This World Book Day we’re encouraging parents, carers, siblings and friends to read to one another.

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Storytelling as a Parenting Tool 101 — Sparkle Stories

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Our understanding of the world is made up of the stories we have told and continue to tell. Here are some of our best tips for using the power of storytelling to give us context and help us grow.

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Are you a natural storyteller or do you fancy writing a novel? Look no further than here where we have an abundance of free resources for National Storytelling Week.