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30 April 2020
The Reading Agency Hub
Here you can access The Reading Agency at home. You’ll find ideas, activities and challenges from across our programmes to entertain and educate yourself, your family or those you are teaching remotely. The activities will be refreshed every couple of weeks...
03 March 2020
The Good Hawk by Joseph Elliott - discussion guide and author video
If everything was taken from you, what would you do to get it back? Agatha patrols the sea wall with pride, despite those in her clan who question her right to be there, because of the condition she was born with. Jaime...
21 January 2020
The Monster Writing (A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness) - guide
Walker Books have an exciting creative writing challenge called THE MONSTER CHALLENGE. ‘Stories are important. Stories can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.’ Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls Are you a young person with a passion for telling...
22 May 2018
Big Bones by Laura Dockrill - Live out loud: Secondary School resources packs
This resource pack is based on Big Bones, a vibrant and bold teen novel from writer and performance poet Laura Dockrill. It is a coming-of-age story about self-appreciation, body-confidence and learning how to love yourself and others – and it will...
06 April 2017
'The Hate U Give' Discussion Questions
Reading guide and discussion questions for ‘The Hate U Give’, a powerful and gripping YA novel about one girl’s struggle for justice, inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement. Sixteen-year-old Starr lives in two worlds: the poor neighbourhood where she was...
16 January 2017
Samantha Shannon Book Trailer Hack
Explore the supernatural underworld of The Bone Season series and create a book trailer. The Bone Season is a ground-breaking fantasy series that has been described as “part Hunger Games dystopia, part urban fantasy”. This pack is designed to help you...
20 December 2016
A Monster Calls - discussion guide
Download these discussion questions for A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
05 May 2016
Big Picture Hack Pack
This Hack Pack includes hacks that use pictures, film and other media to remake reading into a piece of visual storytelling.
05 May 2016
Sound Loung Hack Pack
This Hack Pack explores the links between reading, writing and music.
03 May 2016
Reading Hack projects fund
We are pleased to tell you about a local projects fund for Reading Hack in 16/17. This will support Reading Hackers in running local projects which inspire their peers to take part in creative and cultural reading and writing activity...
25 April 2016
Remixed Reads
Cut up pages from two of your favourite books and rearrange the lines into a poem.
25 April 2016
Poetry Hacktivism
Cut up pages from magazines, newspapers or printed blogs about issues that matter to you
25 April 2016
Internet Poetry Hack
Use search terms to remix the internet into poetry.
25 April 2016
Character Hack
Cut up the dialogue of two characters in two books and make them talk to each other in a new conversation.
21 April 2016
Sound Lounge
Free write while listening to music. Do it with a friend or in a group to create a sound lounge. How do the same pieces of music influence everyone’s writing?
21 April 2016
Crisis and Creation - a Fan Fiction Hack
Write a short piece of fiction imagining a moment of crisis that led a musician to write one of their greatest songs. Don’t name the song in your piece – then see if others can guess which song the musician...
21 April 2016
Turn a Book into a Song Hack
Become a songwriter and write a song based on a favourite read.
21 April 2016
Lyric Speak Hack
Become a lyric artist and make a playlist of your own recordings inspired by a story.
21 April 2016
Novel Soundtracks Hack
Create a playlist for a read (it could be a play, novel or poem) which captures its atmosphere and story.
21 April 2016
Escaped Story Stop-motion Hack
Make a story escape from the pages with Instagram
21 April 2016
Book Trailer Cinema
Learn new digital skills by creating a book trailer for a favourite book.
19 April 2016
Setting up a group of young planners
One of the most effective ways of engaging with young people is to set up a young person’s planning group. This gives them the chance to take on planning roles to guide creative programming and get others involved. The group...
14 April 2016
Bookface Hack
Merge life and art by using a book to take clever picture of yourself. Add your bookface shot to all the bookface art out there on Instagram and Twitter.
14 April 2016
Six Picture Story Hack
Summarise the plot or motto of a book in six photos.
14 April 2016
A Thousand Words Hack
Take a photo that summarises exactly how a book made you feel.
14 April 2016
Dystopia Hack Pack
This Hack Pack includes 5 hacks that engage creatively with the genre of dystopian fiction plus a Dystopian Book List.
14 April 2016
Tweet from the Future Hack
Tweet Shakespeare’s views as he wakes up one morning in 2015. Has he found a Utopia or Dystopia?
14 April 2016
Dystopian Debates Hack
Why do bestselling young adult novels seem darker now than in the past? Or do they? What’s behind the dystopia trend and why is there so much demand for it? Or has it always been this way? Hold a dystopian...
14 April 2016
After the End Hack
A hack for photography lovers. Take a picture that suggests the apocalypse has just ended. Your challenge: Include a book in the photo!
14 April 2016
Your Dystopia Hack
This creative hack is about imagining your own dystopia. What does it look like? Why and how is it different to our own world? What are the struggles and dangers for its people?
