Booktrust presentation

Booktrust

Bonnie Copeman – Development Manager

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Booktrust

>Booktrust is an independent national charity that encourages people of all ages and cultures to discover and enjoy reading.

>Booktrust is responsible for a number of national reading promotions, literary prizes and creative reading projects aimed at encouraging readers to discover and enjoy books.

The reader is at the heart of everything we do.

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The Bookstart Programme

The Bookstart programme started as one of the earliest examples of integrated services for children and families

Bookstart has become a world first, providing universal access to two million families each year.

Bookstart impacts upon the five key outcomes of Every Child Matters, Birth to Three Matters and the Early Learning Goals of the Foundation Stage Curriculum

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Bookstart Packs

Bookstart for babies: Aims to encourage parents/carers to share

books with babies from the earliest age

Bookstart+ for toddlers: Aims to boost a child’s language building & listening skills with fun and engaging books & materials

Treasure Chest for 3 year olds: Builds on BS+ and reinforces the

importance of stories, songs and rhymes in building language skills.

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Bookshine and Booktouch Packs

Booktouch Pack Bookshine Pack

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Dual Language materials

> Books and guidance materials available in 26 community languages

> Free of charge to schemes

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Bookstart Book Crawl

Is a Library-joining incentive scheme

Wallet sized collector’s card with space for 4 stickers

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New Bookstart Bookcrawl certificates for 2008 National Year of Reading

Gwen Millward Mei Matsuoka

Rebecca Harry Nathan ReedJim Copplestone

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Bookstart – the magic of sharing a book

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Bookstart and the Booksellers Association

A £1 book token is included in Bookstart+ and My Bookstart Treasure Chest packs.

More than 1,200 booksellers are taking part and we hope that this number will increase

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A Book in Every Stocking

We're aiming to create special point of sale materials for independent

bookshops in the hope that this will encourage families to buy more books as Christmas presents.

'A Book in Every Stocking'

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Booktime

>Booktime promotes reading for pleasure by giving the gift of a book pack to reception age children across the UK.

>Developed in association with Pearson Publishing

>Currently supported by Dept. for Children, Schools & Families

www.booktime.pearson.com

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>Last autumn, Booktrust launched an exciting new national programme aimed at encouraging Year 7 children to read for pleasure.

>Supported by DCSF, Booked Up enabled every 11 year old in England to choose a free book from a list of 12 specially selected titles.

www.bookedup.org.uk

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The Letterbox Club

This is a programme aimed at improving the educational outlook for children aged 7-11 in foster families.

The children are provided with a parcel of books, maths activities and stationery once every month for six months.

Further details are available from Marian Keen Downs at Booktrust via:-

Marian Keen Downs - Letterbox Club Project Manager direct line 020 8516 4822

e marian@booktrust.org.uk

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Bonnie Copeman

Booktrust Development Manager

bonnie@booktrust.org.uk

www.booktrust.org.uk

www.bookstart.org.uk