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Ideas for Book Event Activities
- Performer visit
- Book assemblies
- Book lists/displays
- Book quizzes and competitions - set by staff and students
- Dress up as a book character - with or without cryptic clues
- Book Fair
- Book differences - books that our grandparents and parents enjoyed
- Desert Island books
- Design a / Draw a / Make a ................
- Drama workshops with a book theme
- Favourite book readings - staff, students, parents, community
- Swapshop - magazines / comics / books /videos etc.
- Story / Letter / Diary / Script / Play writing and ICT work
- Use book based ICT websites
- Book making
- Readathon
- Book and Reading surveys - school, local, other schools - national, international (via the Internet), well known personalities
- Book sale - new and not so new
- Visit a ......... library / SLS base / bookshop / publisher - specialist or general / newspaper office / printing works
- DEAR time - Drop Everything And Read - every day / everybody
- Invite groups of pupils to decorate / display a corner of the library / LRC for use by a book character
- Match the first / last line / illustration of the book to the title
- Guess the reader - Display school readers' book / poetry choices with some cryptic clues to identify the reader - staff and students
- Use the Library Game and / or the Reading Game
- Bran tub - pick one and review it
- Basket / box full of props to activate ideas for writing
- Display a book plot in pictures around the LRC
- Pick book titles suitable for football teams, star players or celebs
- Book title charades
- Have a photo competition of people in school / at home reading
- Story trail - create a story trail around the school
- Who Wants to be a Millionaire? book quiz
- Create a reading / library quiz with different stages and stamp a library 'passport' at each stage
- Do a brilliant artefact display and put books around it
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