Book Week 2025 activities – Join the adventure

Looking for Book Week 2025 activities that spark imagination and boost literacy skills?

Join the adventure with Seven Steps 🤩

To help you celebrate the 80th anniversary of Book Week (16–23 August), we’ve pulled together everything you need to engage your students – free classroom resources, a live online lesson and a practical webinar to get you Book Week-ready.

This year’s theme, Book an Adventure, invites students to explore new worlds through reading and writing. Whether you’re planning activities, prepping for a parade or squeezing in a quick literacy win, we’ve got you covered.

Start the fun early with our free Reading–Writing Connection webinar on 11 August, featuring The Truck Cat – a CBCA  shortlisted picture book. Then, during Book Week, dive into our classroom-ready resource pack and join a live writing lesson with Pobble and Seven Steps.

The magic of reading is that it brings people together, sparking conversations and a shared love of stories. The more children read, the more they learn about writing – soaking up the techniques and creativity of their favourite authors.

Enjoy these Book Week 2025 classroom resources and bring the reading–writing connection to life 🤩

Free Book Week Activity Pack

Make planning easy with ready-to-use classroom resources for Book Week 2025.

Download our free activity pack featuring two engaging, curriculum-aligned resources that boost reading and writing skills while saving you time.

Reading Circles

Book Week is the perfect time to try reading circles – a fun way to support text analysis and boost literacy skills across all year levels. Like a book club with structure, students read the same text in small groups and take on different roles to encourage critical thinking and rich discussion.

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The Truck Cat Unit

Also included in the pack is a jam-packed read to write unit based on The Truck Cat by Deborah Frenkel and Danny Snell, shortlisted for the CBCA Picture Book of the Year.

Students will explore story structure, identify key techniques, then plan, draft and edit their own sequel to Tinka’s adventure using real author techniques.

This unit is all about making the reading–writing connection visible and helping students read like writers and write like readers.

Watch this short video to take a sneak peek inside.

The Reading-Writing Connection Webinar

Get ready for Book Week and learn how to bring the reading–writing connection to life in your classroom. Join us on Monday 11 August for this free interactive webinar. You’ll walk away with simple strategies to help students deepen their understanding of texts – and use those insights to improve their own writing.

We’d love to see you there! Register for free

⭐️ Share your Book Week wins

We’d love to see your class in action! Tag @sevenstepswriting or use #sevenstepswriting on Facebook, Instagram, X to share your Book Week 2025 adventures with our community.