National Year of Reading Star Ideas

Gold Star Idea

Run a performance poetry X Factor competition in the library for staff and students

Today's Top Tip

Invite child care students to join in rhyme time sessions at local public libraries

Star Ideas are taken from our publication Fully Booked by Eileen Armstrong.

Celebrate poetry and lyrics from Shakespeare sonnets to pop songs.

Activities for July might include:

Storm classrooms unannounced with drama students to recite a poem
Create podcasts of staff and students' favourite poems
Make photo montages of items mentioned in poems and song lyrics
Invite child care students to join in rhyme time sessions at local public libraries
Run poetry lunches in the library with staff performing their favourite poems
Summarize favourite stories in a short poem
Create a library anthology of readers' favourite poems and songs
Play music in the library at lunchtimes
Create a poetry juke box on the library internet featuring live performances and interviews with poets
Run a performance poetry X Factor competition in the library for staff and students
Create a soundtrack for your favourite book, justifying the inclusion of every track
Create poetry trails with topical poems displayed in every department
Run a Top of the Poems poll in school to find your favourites by year group. Display the results in the foyer or announce in assembly
Recite a rhyme for a school (or book-based) charity
Plant a Poetree in the school foyer and watch it sprout leaf poems
Put up poetry washing lines and hang clothes-shaped poems

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