100% Engagement
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Engage your students by involving them in the purchasing process. Check out this blog from Andy Plemmons for a step by step guide on this 100% engagement strategy!
BLIND DATE WITH A BOOK / UNWRAP A MYSTERY BOOK
Design and draw your very own comic book by filling in the boxes and speech bubbles. Here’s a tip: Print out multiple sheets to keep the story going!
- from Scholastic
Animation & Drawing : Green Screen Introduce your students to a world of creation...
Leanne Heffernan: Yowie Bay PS
Yowie Bay PS Book Week 2021
Gnod is a project of:
Marek Gibney
Marktstr. 27
20357 Hamburg
Germany
The origin of Gnod is my interest in artificial intelligence and new user interfaces. Meanwhile over 300,000 users use it each month to discover new things they might like.
Get in touch:
→ gnod@gnod.com
Create tickets to your next library event!
Amy Wales: Raymond Terrace PS
Birthday Book Club PLCC.pdf
For Geronimo and Thea fans - group games and printables that can be tweaked to suit your purpose
Annette Allen: Robert Townsend PS
These are links to Google Forms created to collect feedback from students and staff. Adapt to use in your own library.
Student form: https://bit.ly/3vInD2M
Staff form K-2: https://bit.ly/3iUe6TC
Staff form 3-6: https://bit.ly/2SKiytq
Battle of the Books!
Tournament bracket 16 teams1.xlsxLisa Tierney
Check out these links for a step-by-step tournament guide
This is a great idea for your keen readers and can (relatively) easily be adapted for your own library and students [US site]
Search for library kahoots or create your own!
Download as a PowerpPont template or use as a Google Slides theme
This Jeopardy! interactive template will help you create a custom game for your classroom or training meeting. It mimics the look of the TV show. 100% free
Use Flippity's FREE templates to create flashcards, a quiz show, typing test, a word search or bingo, hangman or certificates, and so much more!
Brush Ninja is a super simple animation tool - designed to make it as easy as possible for people to get started with traditional animation skills.
Blooket - reviewed by TCEA's Miguel Guhlin. Feb 2021
Another exciting digital tool, Blooket, supports teacher and student accounts. With a free account, teachers can use Blooket to host a question set with a specific game mode. This game is displayed via screen/projector, then students compete on their own devices. Blooket tracks student progress, keeping a record of student responses. In turn, students are able to track their statistics via global a leaderboard ranking. They can also buy and sell “blooks” and avail themselves of community-wide events.
Check out the full review here
Free passport template - could be modified for virtual book trips!
Solving a rebus puzzle can be a great learning activity for students of any age. Because it uses non-linguistic representation of familiar things, it is one of the high-effect-size strategies (from TCEA, 8 Dec 2020).
Story Walk ideas
Try this site for some word fun when using dictionaries, or just for curiosity.
Find when a word was first used in print.
The site also has a Word of the Day and word games and challenges, crosswords, puzzles and more.
25 Ideas to Motivate Young Readers - 25 Idea From 25 Terrific Teachers
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Character Pair.pdfOdd Character Pairs
From an idea in the Education World link above: choose two characters and have them 'meet' in your library. Students can either write a new story, a new scene in one of the books or have an impromptu interview or conversation. They may even like to act out their story.
One set is PDF and the other is Word so you can edit as you wish :)
Character Pair.docx
Find your favourite book; discover your reader personality type ...
Great fun for students (and staff!)
Glenthorne High School Library: Portable Magic Dispenser
From their Nov 2018 blog
Check out more great ideas from GHS here! They also have reading lists :)
Put students into groups. Choose one person to be in the hot seat. The rest of their group must act out a literary based scene, the person in the hot seat has two minutes to guess it. My favourite scene to give the students was "Gandalf going through customs at the airport." Great wind-down activity near the end of term or year.
Fifty Alternatives to the Book Report [1998]
Here is a library of resources to help children develop the emotional, psychological and interpersonal skills that traditional education doesn’t always teach ...
Use these for students to promote their favourite books
Make Any Worksheet Into an Escape Room in the Classroom
A universe of choice!
Search free flashcards shared by students and teachers... or make your own
Activities
Lots of downloadable resources here so you can host your own Harry Potter Book Night
Book Bento Boxes
Book bento boxes: Creative reading response
How to make a book bento.pptxA creative idea from Fiona Harvey
Elizabeth Maguire Clemens: Maitland Grossmann HS
Santa Maria College, WA 2020
School Library Owl blog
Create a choice board for your library
Follow the links in this article for some great ideas and tips
Three reasons to use choice boards: intrinsic motivation, learning styles, differentiation
(Andrew Roush, TCEA)
With a board, students can choose from several different options for assignments or activities, in the classroom or asynchronously.
Interactive slides/templates for any content area
[US site]
KidLit TV is a winner of the Parents’ Choice Gold Award and has been selected as an American Association of School Librarians Best Digital Tool for Teaching and Learning.