How to Celebrate Book Week

[Susan Stephenson, the Book Chook]

It's Book Week in Australia soon, so I've brainstormed some ways to celebrate the love of reading and books. 

• Revisit a selection of books you and your students have enjoyed. Sometimes kids just need to re-find old favourites to fall in love with a book all over again.
• Have a teddy bears picnic in the park and read some books to the bear friends. Honey sandwiches and fairy cakes might be a good start to the picnic!
• Write to your favourite authors and let them know how much you enjoy their books. Don't be disappointed if they don't have time to write back - it takes ages to write a really good book.
• Discuss: what makes us like a book? Ask everyone to write down their favourite book and why they like it. Do all the books have something in common?
• Choose a favourite book and act it out. Or choose just one scene and make a still picture of it with a group of classmates, using your bodies as the people and props from that scene.
• Pretend to be one a favourite character and make up some more stories for him/her to star in.

Find lots more ideas in the original post at The Book Chook.