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Our theme this year is monster books - we created a monster match game. Match the pictures of monsters to the book cover they are from. Children have a card with all the monsters on them and they have to find the book cover that matches. Pictures of the covers are hidden around the playground. Add a letter to each book cover for older children, once all the covers have been found the letters will spell out a clue to […]

Reading books in an outdoor nursery can sometimes be tricky when temperatures are low – we need to stay active […]

I ask for about 40 staff volunteers to wear a lanyard with either a picture of book cover or the blurb/first line of the book. Students then have a week to match the cover to the blurb. I have students from all year groups taking part as they love trying to track down staff who are wearing the lanyards. I usually have enough staff volunteers as I'm not asking them to do anything other than wear a lanyard. I always […]

At the start of each lesson during World Book Day, each member of teaching staff brings to school one of their favourite books and reads an extract from it to their students. They then tell them why they chose this book and any other information relevant to reading that would encourage students

I did match the Selfie with the Shelfie - I had pictures staff and pictures of their book shelves and the students had to work out which went with which. This was very popular and caused lots of discussions.

Draw a picture of a favourite book - either a character, a scene, an alternative book cover, or a cryptic clue. On the other side of the page, write the title. Get students to guess the title

What if a library got its books in a muddle and the pages from different books got spliced with each […]

Guess the teacher behind the book I put photographs of staff reading on the wall and the kids have to guess the teacher and what they are reading! In the bath; on the bus; in the garden, always children's books.

Create a game sheet with picture of a teacher as a child next to their favourite book and invite student and staff to guess who's who. always cases great fun and laughter . The more teachers involved the better. I managed 35 teachers .

Ask students to discuss the following: – Books that made me smile – Books that made me lol – Books […]