This document provides resources and ideas for celebrating Book Week 2017, particularly aimed at teachers and librarians. It includes themes, activities, and recommendations for book selections, alongside promotional details for the Book Curator service. Additionally, it outlines membership benefits for school librarians and encourages participation in future ASLA events.

1. 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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2. Housekeeping
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Chair ASLA Professional
Learning Project Team
Facilitator for this webinar
Housekeeping:
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 Future PL events
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3. Housekeeping
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4. 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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5. INTRODUCING

6. Book Week 2017
Ideas & Activities
 Early Childhood
 Picture Books
 Information Books
 Younger Readers
 Crichton New Illustrators

7. What’s included?
 Library display ideas
 Literacy – talking and listening
 Writing activities
 Digital tools
 Research ideas
 Creative Arts
 Comprehension skills mapping

8. Gary
by Leila Rudge

9. Gary
by Leila Rudge

10. 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

11. Gary
by Leila Rudge

12. Word and
story focused

13. Research
activities

14. Related texts

15. Creative arts

16. Order Now for $35 at
bookcurator.com.au
 Shipping in
approx. 2 weeks
 Postage included
 Online access
emailed after
publication

18. A Membership Service for
School Librarians & staff
 The Book Curator magazine
 CBCA Awards notables
 Access to all back issues online
 Searchable database of reviews
 Resource Hunter
 Personalised member support
 Optional Standing Orders

19. Extended benefits
for your school
 Any/all staff can be given
access on request
 Member discounts
 Support services
 Database of reviews
 Class novel recommendations
 Resource hunter

20. The Book Curator magazine
 Eight issues per year, 44 pages full colour
 Plus special supplement:
CBCA notables and short list reviews
 Author interviews
 Notable dates
 iLibrarian
 News and views
 Websites & apps, literary festivals,
conferences

21. Feature interviews

22. Special Features

23. Notable dates / iLibrarian

24. More than 40
detailed
reviews plus
content
advisory

25. Special Introductory Offer
 $75 for ASLA members
 Last four issues for 2017:
June, Aug, Sept & Oct
 Online access to all back issues
(including 2017)
 All member benefits, support
services and special offers

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 And, now it is over to Sharon McGuinness

28. 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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29. 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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34. 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.

36. 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.

37. School Library Website use
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38. 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’

39. Questions?
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 Any questions, comments, further ideas?

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