Wbd chatterpack 2013

The World Book Day 2013 Chatterpack

Contents

About this pack

About World Book Day

Setting Up a Chatterbooks club for World Book Day

o Things to think about: Planning, Promotion and Recruitment for your club o Chatterbooks Session Plan & Two Activity Sheets

Libraries and Schools working together for World Book Day

World Book Day Chatterbooks Activities- for World Book Day and beyond!

o Wordsearch

o Alfie’s Shop by Shirley Hughes

o Giraffes Can’t Dance Colouring and Puzzles by Giles Andreae & Guy Parker-Rees

o Horrid Henry’s Guide to Perfect Parents by Francesca Simons & Tony Ross

o Tony Robinson’s Weird World of Wonders: Inventions by Tony Robinson

o The Diamond Brothers in ...Two of Diamonds by Anthony Horowitz

o Hang in There Bozo: The Ruby Redfort Emergency Survival Guide for some Tricky Predicaments by Lauren Child

o Tom Gates: Best Book Day Ever(so far) by Liz Pichon

o The Chocolate Box Girls: Bittersweet by Cathy Cassidy

About this pack Welcome to our World Book Day Chatterpack which is bursting with ideas and activities to get Chatterbooks groups involved with the biggest celebration of books and reading in the world.

Activities are linked to the special £1 World Book Day books whose authors are all big favourites of our Chatterbooks clubs, and are designed to help groups explore the pleasure of books and to encourage children’s love of reading.

This year we are hoping schools and libraries will work together on World Book Day events and will use this great celebration of books and reading to launch new Chatterbooks clubs. In this pack you will find helpful and practical ideas and information to support this exciting work.

About World Book Day World Book Day is a celebration! It’s a fabulous celebration of authors, illustrators, books and reading. It’s the biggest celebration of its kind, designated by UNESCO as a worldwide celebration of books and reading, and marked in over 100 countries all over the world. Thanks to the generosity of National Book Tokens Ltd, publishers and booksellers registered schools (nursery, primary and secondary) can give their students a £1 book voucher. More than 14 million children and young people receive a free book voucher. The vouchers can be used from 25th February -24th March 2013 and are distributed to children at schools. For more information about World Book Day visit www.worldbookday.com.

Setting Up a Chatterbooks Group for World Book Day World Book Day creates a huge amount of energy and excitement about books and reading and is a perfect time to start a new reading group. Embrace this buzz about reading and books and launch a Chatterbooks club in your school or library! Here are things to think about to help you start up your group, plus tips and ideas for running a session. For more detailed information and information about the Chatterbooks network go to the Reading Agency website http://readinggroups.org./chatterbooks/. Things to Think About

Planning o How many children? o What age group? o How often will you meet? – weekly, monthly, termly o How long will the session last? o What time? – after school, lunchtime o Refreshments o Who will run the session? – library staff, school staff, parents, volunteers o Partnership working with school and library o Health and Safety and Child Protection

Promotion and Recruitment o Chatterbooks posters & flyers o Talking to parents o Talking to local community groups - Brownies, Scouts, Youth clubs o Teachers choosing children – eg. linking in with Reading Recovery o Whole class participation o School and Community newsletters o Word of mouth

Chatterbooks Session Plan for World Book Day Launch

Time (approx)

Activity

5 mins Warm welcome to everyone Name badges Refreshments

5 mins Introductions - everyone says their name and briefly tells about something that has happened to them on World Book Day. Explain what is going to happen at the session Agree on ‘ground rules’ - speaking one at a time and listening when someone else is speaking

10 mins Warm Up - Games to get people talking In one minute - say or write down...

all the funny stories you know

all the scary stories you know

all the family stories you know

all the adventure stories you know

all the fantasy stories you know

all the animal stories you know

Make a list of book characters you would like to invite to a World Book Day Party and say why you would invite them

15 mins Main part of the Session Favourite - Not So Favourite (see worksheet) Book Characters (see worksheet) Or choose one of the special activities based on this year’s World Book Day Recommended Reads

10 mins End and Goodbyes Say one thing you liked about the session and one thing you would change Choose books to read for the next session Give date of the next session Tell parents what you did at the session Goodbyes

Favourite, not so Favourite Answer these questions about a book you like and a book you don’t like, and then discuss your answers with your Chatterbooks group.

You could use your Chatterbooks ‘Supermouse’ book mark!

What is the title of your favourite book?

Who is the author of your favourite book?

Can you give three reasons why you like this book so much?

1.

2.

3.

What is the title of a book you don’t like?

Who is the author of this book?

Can you give three reasons why you don’t like this book?

1.

2.

3.

Book Characters Answer the questions, and then share your answers with the rest of your group.

Who is your favourite book character?

Why do you like this character so much?

Which book character makes you laugh?

What do they do to make you laugh?

Which book character do you not like?

Why do you not like this character?

Which book character makes you angry?

Why does this book character make you angry?

Which book character would you like to sit beside at school?

Why have you chosen this one?

World Book Day Wordsearch

Y W Y P S X B G L S D C

G A W R U H N S E Q H K

N F D T A I A T T A G S

I U G K T R I R T C E B

D N N I O S B T I I A E

A B R X B O E I R M N F

E W B E D R B O L S G C

R H W O B K T D L A F H

N A A O Q S F Y L J O C

U O O Z A P W E D R H S

D K B O O K S H O P O H

S C A U T H O R S V M W

Can you find ...

World Book Day Fun Facts

Authors Stories Library

Reading Chatterbooks Websites

Bookshop Sharing Writing

World Book Day Recommended Reads – Quick Ideas Alfie’s Shop by Shirley Hughes Publisher: Random House

Organise a Special Alfie Story time for World Book Day

Invite your local nursery school class to come along or invite a local mother and toddler group.

Have a selection of Alfie books to read

Sing songs, recite some nursery rhymes, and do action rhymes together

Bake a special cake

Ask parents to bring something that might be sold at Alfie’s Shop and make up stories about these items

Giraffes Can’t Dance - Colouring and Puzzle Fun by Giles Andreae & Guy Parker-Rees Publisher: Orchard Books

Organise a special Rhyme Time themed on the fabulous Giraffes Can’t Dance book

Invite children to dress up as animals

Make animal masks

Make animal movements

Dance around the library

Draw animal pictures to decorate the children’s library

Horrid Henry’s Guide to Perfect Parents by Francesca Simon & Tony Ross Publisher: Orion

Think of 10 words to describe Horrid Henry

Think of 10 things Horrid Henry has done that made you laugh out loud

Think of 10 silly things to make perfect parents

Think of 10 things that your parents do that annoy you

Draw a picture of your family and write a silly sentence about each person

Make a Chatterbooks ‘Guide to Perfect Parents’

Tony Robinson’s Weird World of Wonders: Funny Inventions by Tony Robinson & Del Thorpe Publisher: Macmillan

Which 10 weird inventions made you laugh the most? Share favourites with the Chatterbooks group

Use the book to make a World Book Day ‘Weird World of Wonders: Funny Inventions’ Quiz.

Split into teams.

Each team creates a series of true or false questions. Find a genuine funny invention and then make up two of your own funny false inventions.

Take turns asking each other questions. Each team reads out the three inventions and the other team has to work out which is the real one.

The Diamond Brothers in ... Two of Diamonds by Anthony Horowitz

Publisher: Walker

10 words to describe Nick Diamond

10 words to describe Tim Diamond

What 10 skills do you need to be a good detective?

What 10 things make Tim Diamond the world’s worst detective?

Can you think of 10 great detective disguises?

Can you think of 10 dangerous villains?

Tim Diamond always gets things mixed up – what are your favourite mix ups?

Hang in There Bozo: The Ruby Redfort Emergency Survival Guide for Some Tricky Predicaments by Lauren Child

Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books

Talk about ...

10 words to describe Ruby Redfort

10 songs would Ruby Redfort have on her ipod

10 worst worries and ways to solve them

10 survival skills

10 dangerous animals and how to avoid them

10 items that would be useful on a penknife

Tom Gates: Best Book Day Ever!(so far) by Liz Pichon Publisher: Scholastic

10 Book characters to dress up as for World Book Day

10 Prizes for the best World Book Day book characters

What are your worst dressing up costumes? Why?

What are your best dressing up costumes? Why?

Make a list of your teachers and think of book characters they could dress up as which suit their personalities and characters

This year who are you going to dress up as ? Draw your costume

The Chocolate Box Girls: Bittersweet by Cathy Cassidy Publisher: Puffin

Which 10 songs would you like a girl or boy to sing to you under your window?

Which 10 book characters would you like to sit on a beach with and toast marshmallows?

What 10 most embarrassing moments can you imagine?

What 10 funniest moments can you imagine?

Think of 10 reasons why Shay’s dad should let him leave school and join Wrecked Rekords?

Think of 10 reasons why Shay’s dad should not let him leave school and join Wrecked Rekords?

Create a Chatterbooks Picture Book

Be inspired by the wonderful picture books of Alfie and Giraffes Can’t Dance and create your own picture book to read to younger brothers and sisters or to read at a story time session at your library.

Hold a Chatterbooks editorial meeting

Find out groups strengths and interests who likes drawing, who likes writing, who likes using pcs, who likes speaking etc Decisions to make

How many copies – one or several?

Production – by hand or by PC, print or photocopy?

Writing the story – things to think about

What makes a good story book?

Characters Illustrating the story – things to think about

style of drawing

layout of your pages

colours to use

Producing the book

make rough drafts of each page – think about putting pictures and words together

Make final book

Launching the book

Organise a Special Chatterbooks session and invite family and friends and the local press or

Hold a special story time event for pre-school children

Horrid Henry by Francesca Simon

Vote for the Most Horrible Horrid Henry Moment

Get together all the Horrid Henry books from the book shelves

Talk about the worst things he has done – why are they so bad?

As a group make a list of about 6 of his worst moments and vote for his most horrible!

Horrid Henry’s Horrible Moments

Title of the Book :

What happens?

Why is it so horrible?

Title of the Book :

What happens?

Why is it so horrible?

Tony Robinson’s Weird World of Wonders: Funny Inventions by Tony Robinson & Del Thorpe

Get ideas and inspiration for Tony Robinson’s book and invent your own Weird Wonder of the World.

Name of your invention

What does it do?

Draw your invention

The Diamond Brothers in ... Two of Diamonds by Anthony Horowitz

A Chatterbooks Murder Mystery Drama

Turn a Diamond Brothers book into a Murder Mystery Drama and perform it in your library.

Hold a Production Meeting

Make a list of your Chatterbooks members’ skills and experiences (acting, writing, making props, designing costumes, directing etc)

Choose one of the Diamond Brothers Stories to turn into a drama or Make up your own Story

Think about what makes a good Murder Mystery Drama

Write the Script

Turn the book into a script.

Use the dialogue in the book or write your own

Write the whole story or part of the story

Costumes & Props

Design your costumes

Find or make the props

Rehearsals

Rehearse your drama and make any changes

Put on Your Performance

When you are happy with your drama put on the show for your parents and friends at a special Chatterbooks event.

Hang in There Bozo: The Ruby Redfort Emergency Survival Guide for Some Tricky Predicaments by Lauren Child

Design a Spectrum Gadget

The Breathing Buckle, Emergency Frogsuit, Voice and House Keys are innovative gadgets that have helped Ruby get out of tricky situations. If you worked at Spectrum what gadget would you design?

Name of your gadget:

Description of your gadget

How does it work?

Draw a picture of your gadget

Tom Gates Best Book Day Ever! (so far) by Liz Pichon

Be inspired by Liz Pichon’s illustrations and make a huge Chatterbooks Storyboard. Tell a visual story of your Chatterbooks Club’s Best World Book Day.

Check list

First create your story –the 5 ‘Ws’ may help you to make a good story

Who ?– who are the characters of the story

What? What happens?

Where? Where does the action take place?

When?

Why? Think of something wacky why it happens to make an interesting story

Turn your story into pictures

How many pictures will you need to tell your story?

Decide who is going to draw which pictures

What materials will you use?

Pens, crayons, paints, pictures from magazines,

What size?

You could draw each part of the storyboard on a piece of A4 paper which when put together will make a huge storyboard

Display

Find a place to display your artwork where it will get noticed – library, bookshop, school

The Chocolate Box Girls: Bittersweet by Cathy Cassidy Write a Problem Page

Look through the pages of Bittersweet and identify issues and problems young people can face; problems with parents, problems with boyfriends and girlfriends, problems with feeling hurt and jealous, problems with friends. Pretend you are the person with the problem and write a letter for help to a problem page. Then write a reply ...

Who has the problem?

What is the problem?

Write the letter to the problem page

Write the reply

Libraries & Schools working together for World Book Day Use World Book Day as the catalyst for partnership working between local public libraries and local schools. Here’s a list of ideas to get you started. Visit the World Book Day website for more information, resources and ideas www.worldbookday.com.

Hold a World Book Day event at the public library or the school library and share the planning and organising

Organise some World Book Day class visits to the public library

Recruit the whole school to join the public library

Organise class tickets for borrowing library books for all teachers

Organise a World Book Day storytime at the public library – ask school children to produce the publicity

Have a World Book Day book display at school library and public library

Display World Book Day art made at school in the public library

Send a World Book Day collection of public library books to the school

Start a Chatterbooks club together

Encourage all local authority staff as well as school children to dress up as favourite book characters for World Book Day

Organise a joint event to raise money for Book Aid

Visit the World Book Day website for information, resources and ideas