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1 MARCH 2018
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BRILLIANT HOW TO GET
TRIED AND INVOLVED WITH
TESTED FROM
TEACHERS
Brilliant ideas, resources
and everything you
need to celebrate
worldbookday.com Celebrate stories. Love reading. #WorldBookDay
Reading with a
child for only
10 MINUTES
A DAY
can make a big
difference. Join
our campaign
to get the nation
sharing stories.
TAKE 10
This year, we need YOUR help to encourage children,
parents and carers to SHARE A STORY – but what is
#ShareAStory, and how can YOU get involved?
WHO? see what everyone is reading and their
Our #ShareAStory campaign is directly favourite stories on Instagram, Facebook
aimed at parents and carers, highlighting and Twitter using #ShareAStory.
the importance of spending just 10
minutes a day reading and sharing stories WHERE?
with their children. Similarly, children are Anywhere and everywhere, from
encouraged to read with their parents – breakfast to bedtime! In the park, on the
and older siblings are invited to read with train, on the sofa, on a plane – reading and
younger brothers and sisters, too. sharing stories can happen anywhere at
any time – it’s not just for bedtime.
WHAT?
It’s a fantastically fun, nationwide social WHY?
event, where families with children No matter your age, sharing stories
and young people of all ages share the is an opportunity to spend quality time
pleasure of reading and stories together, together, as well as promoting wellbeing.
at home and at school. And we’d love to And, even more importantly, it has a vital
impact on a child’s outcome in life. Put
simply, reading together is good for you.
HOW?
Over the page, we’ve got all the
information you need so you can help us
to Share a Story in your setting, with the
resources included in this pack.
HOW CAN
I PROMOTE
• ORGANISE your own Share a Story event – it can be
celebrated in so many ways; invite parents/grandparents into
nursery for an early breakfast or at the end of the day for a Share
a Story session with hot chocolate. Children can bring their
favourite book and teddy. See more ideas on pp 5-6 of this pack.
• GIVE OUT the ‘LET’S SHARE A STORY’ stickers included
with your resource pack
WHAT’S
MY • DOWNLOAD THE ONLINE SHARE A STORY
ROLE? TOOLKIT from worldbookday.com/resources – includes:
• story sharing tips
• ideas to get the most out of sharing stories
• posters
n
• parent’s leaflet Let’s get the natio
• display templates to TAKE 10
from
• parent’s resources and share stories
t to be dt ime
• reading recommendations breakfas
• PROMOTE dressing-up ideas or face painting, which can be
done on the day
• CREATE a tented reading area and include fun props for
storytelling
• MAKE book borrowing boxes so each child can borrow a book
to enjoy at home
• CONDUCT a poll; we conducted a nationwide poll to discover
the nation’s favourite Stories to Share. See the results on our
website at worldbookday.com/ideas/share-a-story/vote
– why not conduct your own nursery poll and compare?
Look out for this great way to SHARE STORIES too . . .
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to Bed! by Tony Ross and What the Ladybird Heard by
Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks, available on demand
until 25 March at worldbookday.com/world-of-stories
There are LOTS more ideas for you to discover at
worldbookday.com/ideas
with your
k Day
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BOOKS BOOKS
Give out the book tokens to your class (only one
per child) and let children and parents/carers know
what it’s for, how to use it, which books they can
choose (see above), where they can choose them
(thousands of independent bookshops, Waterstones,
WHSmith, Asda, M & S, Morrisons, Sainsbury’s and
Tesco stores – find your local at booksellers.org.uk/
bookshopsearch) – and how much fun they’ll have
reading them (LOADS!).
BOOKY ACTIVITY IDEAS!
For a further burst of inspiration, don’t
miss 20 brand new worksheets created in
association with Twinkl, each featuring a
day’s activity centred around a brilliant
picture book for your class or group to enjoy,
including Oi Frog!, Aliens Love Underpants,
Stick Man and more!
See them all at worldbookday.com/resources
Available to download for FREE to watch in your setting from 12pm on Wednesday 28 February
( Illustratora!)
Extravaganz
Be prepared to be DAZZLED – THE BIGGEST BOOK SHOW ON
EARTH is back. Join some of the BIGGEST and BEST illustrators
as they share a story with you, beamed into your setting. . .
ALEX T. SOPHY
SMITH HENN
Claude
ROB Pom Pom
BIDDULPH
Kevin
NADIA SHIREEN The
H OST E D BY
LYDIA
Bumblebear STEVEN
MONKS BUTLER
The Nothing
Mouse’s To See Here
Big Day Hotel
SIGN UP NOW!! Filmed at
at worldbookday.com/videos/biggest-book-show to enjoy this 30-minute,
online Illustrator Extravaganza (almost) live in your nursery or pre-school.
WE ASKED, YOU ANSWERED!
Every year, we invite YOU to share the
wonderful ways you have celebrated
World Book Day. We’ve selected
TEN TRIED AND TESTED IDEAS
from pre-schools inspire you.
C E L E B R ATING Discover more (and add
FOR your own new ones)at
worldbookday.com/
showcase rfect
Pe
ity!
activ
READING BREAKFAST STORY SACKS
‘We always put on a ‘reading ‘We choose a storybook with
breakfast’ buffet for children and enough characters to make a good
their parents, carers or siblings. visual story (minimum 4 characters),
Parents bring in a story (we suggest one then make up a story sack using soft
in their home language, a family favourite toys as near to the look of the character
or one from their own childhood) and as possible, and add a few props to tell
we set up lots of cosy corners for sharing the story, such as tree branches, etc. The
books. It’s a great way to get families children love hearing the story with the
meeting and children to be passionate props, and have the chance to play with
about their favourite books.’ the props after the story is read.’
ect
SARAH CRAWFORD, LONDON Perf KATRINA WILLSHER, MARLOW
ity!
activ
SHARE FOOD FOR THOUGHT
A BOOK ‘The children and teachers at
‘This is a simple pre-school will look into books
idea but the with food, like The Very Hungry
children love it! Share Caterpillar, The Gingerbread Man, The
a story with the children Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry
during story time and and the Big Hungry Bear and celebrate
then let the children Book Week by preparing and eating
take it in turns to take the foods from the stories: gingerbread
the story home to share biscuits, a picnic worthy of a giant
with parents/siblings. caterpillar and strawberry milkshakes.’
HAZEL HAWKEN, SILVIA BROWN, WINCHESTER
ect
PLYMOUTH Perf
ity!
activ
BOOK BEAR BRING BOOKS TO LIFE
‘We have a special ‘We use extra props to bring our
book of the week books to life with pre-school and
that we send home reception children – we read the
with a child. Along with book in a circle, then act it out using a silk
the book is a diary and a parachute as the choppy sea in Where the
teddy. The children love Wild Things Are, colourful Imynda wings
it, and Teddy has been to as the tall grass in We’re Going on a Bear
some really special places Hunt – the children love it. Then we come
– including the local back into a circle and retell the story,
library.’ remembering the actions that we did.’
LIZ, LEOMINSTER IMYNDA PLAY, ST AUSTELL
STORY BOOK TREE ACT IT OUT
‘At home we have made a story ‘If you’re reading aloud to more
book tree. Every time we finish than one child who can already
a story, we choose a favourite read, get them to do different voices,
character and add it to our tree. The encouraging them to be as dramatic as
tree was an idea inspired by one of our possible. It can lead to squabbles, but
favourite Enid Blyton series The Magic mostly it’s great fun and a good way of
making books come alive.’ ect
Faraway Tree, and also the old Ladybird Perf
classics stories which had a beautiful tree NATASHA FARRANT, LONDON ity!
activ
on the inside cover.’
ORIANA & BRONTË PAGE, ESSEX
BOOK HUNT
ect
Perf ‘Everyone gets given a clue and
ity!
PYJAMA activ has to hunt through the library
to find a message from a
PARTY
book relating to their clue. Whoever
‘Encourage bedtime
finds their message first is the winner!
reading by having a
CARRIE WRIGHT, WREXHAM
pyjama party at nursery –
children (and staff) wear
nightwear and bring in
their favourite teddy and NEED HELP?
bedtime story. Share the worldbookday.com/faq
stories at nursery and ask or email us:
children to swap their book wbd@education.co.uk
with a friend so that they can
read the story at home.’
ANGELA DIXON, LANCASTER
HOW
TO...
In the spirit of sharing, we asked some INCREDIBLE ILLUSTRATORS
and AUTHORS for their top tips and advice on storytelling.
“One of my favourite “Bedtime stories are a big deal in our house
things to do when I’m and I’m convinced that they are the key to a
reading stories aloud is to child’s literacy levels. Make it fun and it will
get the children to join in foster a love of reading that will never leave.
with silly noises. I always Character voices are a good place to start.
try to put silly noises My Glaswegian Stoick the Vast is legendary
in my books – sound effects, and never fails to raise a smile. Mainly
‘oohs’ and ‘aaahs’ and inevitably, because I can’t do a Glaswegian accent.
a variety of animal sounds. It’s
a good way of getting kids ‘Get the We also love games whilst reading – one of
involved, and it helps me out children to our favourites is the snappily-titled ‘Who
too – sometimes I can feel a bit join in with Can Memorise the Most Mr Men On The
shy about standing in front of a silly noises’ Back of the Book (In Order)?’ My record is
load of people loudly mooing, so three. My daughter’s, however, is thirty-four.
if I ask the kids to help me out they are usually Storytime is something we all look forward
only too happy to oblige. You could also get to, and apart from anything else, the one-to-
them to play a character; so whenever that one time is absolutely priceless.”
character has a line of dialogue, they can repeat
ROB BIDDULPH, CREATOR OF
the line after you. For example, whenever I do
BLOWN AWAY
readings of Bumblebear, I get the kids to be the
little bees who say “What the jiggins?!” And in
The Cow Who Fell To Earth, I play the cow and
‘Make it fun
I ask all the kids to be the sheep – then they
and it will foster
start baa-ing like nobody’s business.” a love of reading
that will never
NADIA SHIREEN, CREATOR OF
leave’
THE COW WHO FELL TO EARTH
‘Slow down “The more you enjoy reading a book, the more the child you’re sharing
and savour it with will too. I try everything with my daughter, River (she doesn’t
the journey’ like voices ‘talk normally mummy!’ but finds the odd silly face quite
funny), but my biggest tip is to cosy-in for the moment and go at the
pace of the child. River (3), loves to stop, look at the pictures and ask questions
and the temptation is to dash off an answer and plough on to the end, but I think
stories, like life, are more fun when you slow down and savour the journey.”
RACHEL BRIGHT, AUTHOR OF THE SQUIRRELS WHO SQUABBLED
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