This year we adapted our WBD plan. We encouraged all children to give a recommendation to each other – ‘Top recommendation’! To take part, children wore a plain coloured top, keeping a marker pen with them at all times and writing their recommendation on the tops of all participating. This created a buzz of excitement throughout the day; right up until the last bell – parents were even giving recommendations on the playground at home time! Children who wanted to ‘dress up’ were invited to do so, and instead brought a note book along to receive recommendations. Some children chose to do both – dress up and wear a ‘top recommendation’. After WBD, the children had to chose a recommendation given to them, get the book from the library or shop and read it. Many of the children spoke about their recommendation after the event; making this year impactful and a great success. Thank you to WBD charity for all their resources and assembly slides. Please continue to make more of the same!

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 find some chocolate treasure.

WBD Quiz
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Reading books in an outdoor nursery can sometimes be tricky when temperatures are low – we need to stay active to stay warm! One way I incorporate movement into a story is to turn it into a treasure hunt (this does involve cutting up a book!)
Number each page clearly and place them around the outdoor space, either hidden or in view. Challenge the children to run and find the next page. Read it where they find it, then have them run to find the next page. Repeat until complete! The more distance between the pages, the more movement is required. This is also great for practicing number sequences and stable order.

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 ask members of SLT to take part and wear a lanyard too.

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

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 other? Where would the characters end up? What would they do? How would they act?

The comic book industry has relied on amalgamations and multiverses for decades to keep stories fresh. Time travel, cloning and wormholes have allowed characters to be reborn, inhabit new bodies and end up in different settings across time.

These World Book Day activities let your children explore this concept and create a multiverse of their own with their favourite characters.

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 that made me sad
– Books that changed my life
The results can then be collated into a school list and displayed.