THE BUZZ: BOOKS, BOOK WEEK AND MORE

R O W E N A B E R E S F O R D – T H E B O O K C U R A T O R

S H A R O N M C G U I N N E S S – M R S M A C ’ S L I B R A R Y

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Sue Johnston

Chair ASLA Professional

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Housekeeping:

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Presenters

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Rowena Beresford

Editor – The Book Curator

Sharon McGuinness

Teacher Librarian, Thirroul PS, NSW and Oliver Implementation Officer NSW DoE

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INTRODUCING

Book Week 2017

Ideas & Activities

Early Childhood

Picture Books

Information Books

Younger Readers

Crichton New Illustrators

What’s included?

Library display ideas

Literacy – talking and listening

Writing activities

Digital tools

Research ideas

Creative Arts

Comprehension skills mapping

Gary

by Leila Rudge

Gary

by Leila Rudge

Blackline Masters

For each book in the shortlists (except Older)

Included in printed book

Also available as a download for

easier printing

Designed as a complete activity

Relates to book content

Additional general activities, eg. Picture Book

judging, Crichton short list assessment

Gary

by Leila Rudge

Word and

story focused

Research

activities

Related texts

Creative arts

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And, now it is over to Sharon McGuinness

Buzz About Book Week

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Create a buzz about shortlisted books for a term

Provides TLs with a Term Program focussing on quality Australian literature

Annual theme can provide another level of engagement for students and class teachers.

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Theme Ideas

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The theme surrounding escape and linking to books provides endless ideas for TLs.

Which books/stories/characters have either focussed on an escape or needed to escape from a situation?

Could be the basis of a writing task – students can write about where they would like to escape to – could be a real or fictional place. Could even write it cryptically, so other students have to work it out.

Develop further into a drama piece, short film or stop motion animation

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Catalogue searches to locate those titles which feature a character or story relating to an escape. Group activity

Library scavenger hunt using catalogue searches to unlock clues to help in the ficticious ‘escape’ of students in the Library

Use Chris Grabenstein’s book ‘Escape from Mr Lemoncello’s Library’ which is full of puzzles, puns and references to book titles. Activities downloaded from the website

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Design online travel brochures using online tool –‘canva’. Advertising a weekend away to a fictional place – Narnia, Oz, 100 acre wood, Hogwarts etc. Students may also use the brochure option in Microsoft Word

Use the following quote by Mason Cooley ‘Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are’ – ask students what this means to them and which book has ‘taken’ them ‘somewhere else’?

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John Edmonson HS TL, Mandy Kirk has developed a ‘digital breakout’ task called ‘An Oliver Twist’ using both the theme and the Oliver LMS.

Students crack codes, use the catalogue and solve puzzles to discover the solution.

An example of the online ‘postcard’, Mandy used as part of the task shows some of the hyperlinked clues in the next slide.

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Critical Thinking

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Students judge the shortlisted titles using same criteria as the ‘real’ judges. This can be located via the ‘Book of the Year Awards’ tab, click on ‘Entry Information and scroll to the bottom of the page on the CBCA website

Students can write up their evaluations of a category –Early Childhood for example, then vote by secret ballot or via online survey tool such as Survey Monkey or ‘Google Forms’ from the Google suite of applications

Use rebus word puzzles to develop a puzzle based on a shortlisted title......

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....these may be displayed in the library or all around the school to be solved by students/staff.

School Library Website Ideas

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You may be able to use your school library website or LMS home page (eg Oliver system) to highlight Book Week with links to book trailers, author interviews, titles held in your library, tasks, links etc

Upcoming issue of the NSW DoE journal ‘Scan’ illustrates how.

School Library Website use

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Theme Ideas - Sources

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Mrs Mac’s Library – annual Book Week page with links, ideas now in 11th year

Susan Stephenson’s Book Chook Book Week and her Activities for Children pages

Barbara Braxton’s Book Week for Beginners

Publications produced by The Book Curator and Ipswich District TL Network

ALIA’s ‘The Reading Hour’

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Any questions, comments, further ideas?

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