Celebrating World Book Day
Lesson duration is: 20 minIntroduction
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Welcome to this lesson for World Book Day!
It can be easily customised to suit your learners! Click on the text boxes to edit the content.
What are your favourite books?
A word cloud starter activity.
Lesson Objectives
Understand the history, purpose, and significance of World Book Day
Explore how we can make reading enjoyable and inclusive
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Why have World Book Day?
An open question to generate discussion.
What is World Book Day?
UNESCO established World Book and Copyright Day on 23 April 1995.
It honours books, reading, authors, and copyright.
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What is World Book Day?
In the UK & Ireland, we celebrate on the first Thursday in March to avoid clashes with Easter and St. George’s Day.
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What is World Book Day?
On that day, children receive a £1 / €1.50 book token to use in bookshops or for special World Book Day books.
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Why is reading important?
Broadening your vocabulary and aiding expression.
Experiencing emotions and extreme situations in a safe way.
Feel free to alter or expand these facts!
Why is reading important (cont.)
Learning about history and other cultures.
Increasing your knowledge.
Inspirational situations and characters.
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In what other ways do you think reading could be beneficial?
Open question to expand on the last few slides.
What do you like to read?
Fiction - novels, plays, short stories
Non-fiction - factual, travel writing, biographies and autobiographies
Poetry collections
Magazines
Other
Poll designed to open up discussion - even though this lesson is mainly about encouraging the reading of fiction, I wanted to include and encourage other forms of reading.........use it as an opportunity to expand learners; minds.
What's your preferred way to read?
Traditional physical book
On my phone/tablet
On a dedicated e-reader
Computer screen
Another poll - you could leave this or modify it easily.
Fiction
Non-fiction
Writer
Your Reading Recommendations
word cloud with categories to draw on the class' favourite writers or examples of fiction and non-fiction. Again this is about generating and harnessing the enthusiasm there already.
The video has been divided into sections with multiple choice questions at certain intervals.
Which form of reading is particularly beneficial?
Fiction (novels, stories, narratives)
Non-fiction (factual writing)
You can change these or add questions based on the video subject to your requirements!
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What were the readers of the third sort of texts in the experiment better at?
Judging what people in photographs were thinking
Recalling historical facts
Writing their own fiction
Faster at reading
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What was the third sort of text from the experiment Rita Carter refers to?
Explanatory, non fiction books
Stories covering events but not really inside characters' heads.
Reading from the perspectives of characters
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What was the name of the character from 'Wuthering Heights' the group were empathising with?
Cathy
Heathcliff
Linton
Joseph
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What effect does reading have on the brain?
You act out what you are reading
It forces it to create new neural pathways
It tires the brain
It reduces blood flow
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How much reading of fiction needed to be done nightly to see evidence of new pathways in the brain?
10 pages
30 pages
50 pages
100 pages
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Build reading into your week!
Just thirty pages daily reading is beneficial for your brain!
Get reading!
Ideally fiction as the video suggested!
Thank you for using this lesson!