Book Week 2010          'Across the Story Bridge'

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LINKS
CBCA Shortlist
Winners
Mrs B's Interactive Literacy
Ipswich TL Network
WA DET
Mrs T's ICT

AUTHORS and ILLUSTRATORS  

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TEACHING IDEAS

  • As a challenge to your students, ask them to design and build a bridge which illustrates this year's theme. You may set some criteria re size and/or materials, or not! Send Mrs Mac a photo of the best and it will be displayed here during Book Week.
  • Try using Wallwisher as an alternative to blogging about Book Week. Use it to ask a question about the theme, a book etc and ask your students to comment. Make sure you moderate the comments.
  • Why not use  Picasso Head as an activity with your students after reading 'Schumann the Shoeman'?
  • Don't forget Mrs Mac's Book Week Blog will again be posing questions for your students to think about and comment on. Book voucher prizes again for the best comments!
  • Use Intel's Visual Ranking Tool to rank each category of shortlisted titles....get your students to develop their own criteria.
  • There are some bridge images on PictLit that students could use to create their own pictlit.
  • Students could create their own Book Week survey using surveymonkey
  • Use Tagxedo to create word clouds in shapes. Use with individual shortlisted titles based on character/theme or use with an entire category. Display the end products in the library.
  • Students could make individual posters that have a
    self-portrait or photo in the centre, and from that paper arched like a
    bridge connects to a book and from that another arch connects to a person,
    an idea, a country, whatever to show that concept of connection
  • Another 'connecting' idea might be to examine cultures whose traditions are
    passed on orally and how story-telling would be a common connector within
    and amongst all cultures.  Opportunity for exploiting the curriculum and
    collaborative planning and teaching there.
  • Students might like to investigate the global connections of stories -
    why do so many cultures have a version of Cinderella, for instance?
  • There is also the concept of the Book Awards themselves - how do the
    shortlists and the winners connect us with stories, authors and illustrators
    we might not otherwise have read?
  • There is also the concept used widely in the US, particularly, of one
    school-one read, and even one-community, one-read where everyone reads the
    same book.  Schools report very positive bonding results from these
    activities.
  • Use the image of the bridge from Monet's garden as a story starter - if this bridge could tell a story, what would it be? You could also use other images of bridges from flickr as writing starters....select an image of a bridge with someone on it/walking across it. Why are they on the bridge? Where are they going?
  • Using shape collage, ask students to create their own collages using bridge images from flickr. You could even establish criteria.....arch bridges, in natural settings etc.
  • Choose one of the bridge images on jigzone to create jigsaw puzles for your students.
 
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