More Ideas to Involve Others


  • Write and invite a local author to read a book and to share his/her writing secrets.

  • Invite a storyteller to come to your school.

  • Invite a local Indigenous group to tell or dance a story.

  • You might even be lucky enough to have a cultural group who could share stories and dance. Why not design and conduct interviews with them and make a podcast for your website? Perhaps they will share some of their writing secrets and dance steps with you!

  • Collaborate with your local primary or secondary school to design your celebrations this year.

  • Invite your local secondary school drama group to retell a story as a short drama for the local primary school

  • Start a blog

    Weebly for education
    http://education.weebly.com/
    A free site for creating a classroom website and blog which is easy to use. It is a protected site for students.

    Edublog
    http://edublogs.org/
    An educational blog platform for students and teachers with helpful hints to get started.

    Blogs on YouTube
    Maybe you could start a blog in your class about your project
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN2I1pWXjXI&feature=channel


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  • Host a reading and storytelling event. Perhaps a Readers’ or Writers’ Tea party. You might choose an afternoon tea, tales at twilight or a story sharing  evening (include students’ writing). Invite family and friends of your school to listen to the book(s) you have been reading or writing. Ask them to bring their favourite book or story to share with your class. Why not record their stories (with their permission) and create a story repository that can be listened to long after National Celebration of Literacy is over? What a lovely resource for reading time at school.

  • Create a digital link up to share stories with children in different communities. If you’re on the coast - why not connect with a rural school? In Darwin - why not “visit” your friends in Tasmania through your interactive white board and read with them or share your writing? You could share your stories; discuss an agreed upon author and the different books he/she writes.

  • Wikis might be a useful tool for a group working on a digital story to communicate . Alternatively it might be a useful tool to involve teachers in the planning for National Celebration of Literacy.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLY
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7BAU2XX5Ws&feature=related