World Cup 2010
This page features resources related to the World Cup 2010.
Love Football: Love Reading, funded by the Football Foundation and the Professional Footballers’ Association, is a toolkit for literacy professionals. It features ideas and activities for schools, libraries and learning centres at football clubs to use to promote reading through sport.
Ideas featured in the toolkit include: a library football treasure hunt to make families aware of the different football reading material available; advice about launching an activity called ‘Male Order’ where parents, especially mums, are encouraged to borrow or buy World Cup books for men and boys in their household; and a guide to putting together an interactive World Cup display.
Spain may be the champions of the world, but you are all reading champions of World Cup 2010. As a special thank you please download and print the certificate below.
World Cup Mystery certificate. You're a winner! Print a special certificate of thanks signed by Tom Palmer! RTG and Tom Palmer would like to thank everybody who followed our daily episodic story during World Cup 2010. The response to the toolkit and the episodic story has been overwhelmingly positive. Thank you for all your support.
A Tom Palmer episodic story. Episodes were written daily from 7 June, and posted online for teachers to download and read aloud in the classroom. The story features football detective Danny Harte, and each episode has related writing activities.
Tom Palmer's Chatterpack. Puffin Books created a World Cup Chatterpack, a set of ideas to encourage reading during the tournament and introducing some great football fiction. It includes World Cup prediction games, an interview with football fiction writer Tom Palmer, a World Cup wordsearch and a plan to host a World Cup party in a school or library. The Chatterpack is free and downloadable from this site.
Wordsearches and crossword. These are downloadable as a word document, so that you can remove the answers before you print them for your group!
Ball shaped book review. This pdf is for your group to let you know what they think about what their reading. With many thanks to Anne Burns and Bolton Schools' Library Service.
Jackets of football books to download and use in your World Cup displays.
Tom Palmer's blog, which features all the best World Cup-related ideas from libraries and schools.
Book reviews of football books.
Still want more? Why not get your group to take the Premier League Reading Stars Challenge, another free resource. Visit www.premierleaguereadingstars.org.uk.
If you have any queries relating to these materials please email jim.sells@literacytrust.org.uk.
