OTHER ACTIVITIES
Introduction
Further Activities
Getting started
Whatever you decide to do, think about how you can share your
celebration with other classes, with your local community or
nationally through our website.
You might be able to feature National Celebration of Literacy
on your own school website.
Send us the link and we will upload it onto our Sharing
page.
Keep in mind the permission that we will need if we use any of
your photos.
Get Writing!
This year think about bringing reading and writing together for your celebration of literacy.
Get students writing about books and related topics for
real audiences.
This might include:
- a simple book review
- interviews between students
- character profiles
- news report
- creating cartoon strips
- creating timelines or flow charts
- creating a storyboard
Engage your young writers with a range of options for sharing their writing through the creation of visual texts in the form of:
- digital stories
- power point presentations that use images
- oral language with supporting written text.
Get Reading!
Go to the ‘Links’ tab and explore some of the websites for information on authors and reading lists for all ages.
One School One Book
Select a book for the whole grade or school to read. Tell your school community so they can join in too. Nominate one day to celebrate the book. The school will buzz with talk about the book.
To cater for different ages, you could modify this to ‘one school one author’ and match suitable books from the one author to the age groups in your school (Colin Thompson’s or Jackie French’s books would be good for this).
Book Clubs
Celebrate Literacy by starting book clubs across the school. Again this can involve the wider community with parent and older students taking charge of some of the groups. Try a Breakfast Club in the half hour before school starts.
Involve the staff
Ask each teacher to bring in a favourite book to read to each class.
Get Sharing!
Share Your Celebrations Beyond the Classroom
- Get the whole school involved.
- Select ‘roving reporters’ from the student body to report on the activities in the school newsletter, on the website or in a special publication for the Celebration of Literacy in your school.
- Invite local media including local papers and radio stations.
- Consider collaborating with the local library or bookstore. It might be just the place for displaying some of your work.
- Think about getting involved with the local community through retirement homes, community centres or local businesses. Perhaps some of these places would be perfect to showcase your students’ work.
