Create a Reading Culture in Class

• Read with your students
• Light candles
• Bring books in a basket - encourage choice
• Make a reading corner
• Hang book posters
• Visit the library as a class
• Make a classroom reading chain
• Survey teachers and students: What do you read?
• Try this site
• Inspire your teachers: Make a regional book club for adults!!

Making Bookmarks - School Event

1. Choose one of your younger classes to plan and run the event
2. Order materials - colored paper, scissors and even googly eyes and glue
3. Advertise the event with ads around school
4. Set up tables in a hallway or open public space in school
5. Have students man the tables explaining in English how to make them
6. Set up a laptop which is running the video on loop
7. Have each student in school finish his day with a monster/owl bookmark.
8. Make sure they bring them with their book to class the next day.

This book is so.....

1. Request a bulletin board on a wall near the school office
2. Decorate it for book recommendations
3. Thumbtack a bag with small notes on it
4. Have students recommend books to other students
5. Google "book recommendation bulletin boards" for more examples