For Teachers
Your Next Outstanding Unit. Fully Planned and Ready to Teach
Let’s be honest. You already have enough on your plate. Between planning, marking, assessments, and adapting lessons for every child in your class, the idea of designing a cross-curricular project from scratch can feel overwhelming. What if you didn’t have to?
Book Crafters is a complete, ready-to-teach programme that takes the stress out of delivering an ambitious, cross-curricular unit. Everything is planned. Everything is resourced. You simply step into your classroom and guide your pupils through one of the most rewarding projects they will ever experience.
What's in the Box?
No hunting for resources. No late nights creating PowerPoints.
We Provide:
- Detailed lesson plans for twelve sessions, structured across six weeks.
- Task cards for pupils, so independent learning runs smoothly.
- Editable templates for storyboards, scripts, and planning.
- Parental consent forms and communication templates.
- A 1-hour CPD session delivered to your staff, covering the tools (Audacity, Canva) and assessment approaches - so you feel confident before you begin.
You don’t need to be a tech expert. You don’t need to be an artist. You just need to be the teacher who opens the door and lets your pupils surprise you with what they can achieve.
Some of the Many Benefits of "Book Creators"
How many times have you watched a child struggle to put pencil to paper during a writing lesson, only to see them come alive when given a different way to express themselves ?
Book Crafters is built on the understanding that children have diverse strengths. The project offers multiple entry points:
Writers craft the narrative and refine vocabulary.
Illustrators bring scenes to life through digital or hand-drawn art.
Narrators and voice actors record dialogue and sound effects, developing oracy and confidence.
Sound engineers curate music and ambient audio.
Editors review, proofread, and polish the final product.
Every child finds their role. Every child contributes meaningfully. And every child sees their name in a published book.
Differentiation doesn’t have to mean three versions of the same worksheet. Book Crafters is designed with inclusion at its heart, supported by principles aligned with NASEN and the Dyslexia Association.
For children with dyslexia: The multi-sensory nature of the project (audio recording, illustration, collaboration) removes the barrier of spelling and handwriting. These pupils often become the lead narrators or sound designers – roles where they excel.
For children with SEND:Â Scaffolded task cards, flexible grouping, and a range of roles mean every child can access the curriculum at their own level.
For children who lack confidence:Â The collaborative structure allows them to build skills in a supportive environment before taking on more visible roles.
For children who are gifted: There are endless opportunities for extension – advanced editing techniques, more complex narrative structures, leadership roles within their group.
You don’t need to write separate lesson plans. The project flexes around your children.
At the end of six weeks, you won’t have a stack of exercise books to mark. You’ll have something far more powerful: a collection of professionally formatted multimedia books, complete with illustrations, narrations, and soundscapes.
These aren’t just displayed on a shelf. They are published as e-books, audiobooks, and interactive apps. Parents can access them via QR codes. Your school website can showcase them. Your pupils can take them home and say, with genuine pride, “I made this.”
And you? You’ll have hard evidence of progress—pre- and post-writing samples, digital skill rubrics, and the final products themselves—ready for pupil progress meetings, parent evenings, and subject leader reviews.
Book Crafters doesn’t just tick the English box. It delivers across the curriculum in ways that are explicitly mapped to the National Curriculum:
English:Â Composition, vocabulary development, editing, peer evaluation, and spoken language.
Computing:Â Creating media, using digital devices purposefully, file management, and understanding copyright.
Art & Design:Â Developing ideas, using digital tools creatively, visual communication.
PSHE:Â Collaboration, empathy (particularly when voicing characters), and online safety.
You cover multiple curriculum targets in one cohesive, engaging project. That’s not just efficient teaching. That’s intelligent curriculum design.
You need data. Book Crafters gives you meaningful data without adding hours to your workload.
Use the provided digital skill rubrics to track progress in computing.
Collect pre- and post-writing samples to demonstrate impact on composition.
Observe collaboration, resilience, and oracy development through group work.
Use the final published products as tangible evidence for subject leaders, Ofsted, and parents.
Assessment becomes part of the process – not a bolt-on chore.
What Teachers Are Saying
Jane Carter
"I was nervous about the technology at first, but the CPD session was clear and practical. Within one lesson, my Year 4 class was recording narration like they'd been doing it for years. The best part? A boy who never writes confidently became our lead sound editor. He came alive. The whole class was buzzing."
"I've taught creative writing units before, but nothing compares to Book Crafters. The children took ownership in a way I've never seen. They were editing each other's work, problem-solving technical issues, and supporting each other. The final products were genuinely impressive. This is teaching at its most rewarding."
