WBD Quiz
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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 find some chocolate treasure.

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.

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.