Team-building is recommended as the first step to achieve literacy across the curriculum because its generic skills and personal development programme that enables groups of children to complete a range of tasks together effectively and independently in collaborative mixed-ability teams.

There is no specific number of Team-building sessions recommended per week. Some teachers prefer to plan one session per week to allow the children time to practice the skills in other learning situations before moving on to the next session. Others like to block Team-building over two weeks to prepare the teams for reciprocal reading and other group learning tasks as quickly as possible.

Sessions vary in length according to class and team discussion during activities and debate. It is always best to think ahead and plan for a longer session or split the session into two parts if you think your class needs longer to explore an activity or topic for discussion.

Yes, the skills-based activities have been chosen carefully to appeal to a broad range of interests, abilities and ages.

Following payment, the purchaser of the programme registers a username and password to open an account for the school. This username and password is then passed on to staff so they can access the resources.

Yes the programme is a one-off payment that allows school staff to download the materials from their Think2Read account within a year of purchase and store the resources on their own systems for future use.

No, you will be in breach of copyright if the ‘Team-building’ programme and resources you have purchased are copied in any way or shared with other schools and interested parties without permission from Think2Read.