Every year, teachers and librarians across Australia spend a week celebrating books! Dress up days, parades, activities and books are explored, highlighting the importance of reading.
This year's theme is one of my favourite – Escape to Everywhere! What a wonderful topic that can be used in a number of different ways within the classroom!
Well, you've come to the right spot, we have saved you precious time and have put together some delightful teaching resources relating to the Book Week theme – Escape to Everywhere.
These fun, quick and easy activities are the perfect addition to your book week resources for 2017. Best of all, you can laminate them and use them again and again!
Check out our Book Week Task cards.
Design a travel poster that encourages people to use books to escape to everywhere.
Design and create a parachute to help Jack from Jack and the Beanstalk escape from the Giant.
You have escaped to a deserted island. Which three books would you take to the island and why?
Pick a fictional story, draw a map of the setting.
Using one of your favourite story books, write a postcard from the main character. Describe the setting of the story in your postcard.
When students scan the QR code, cute little clues are shown.
Finding the first clue will be a treat! Look for it where you get something to eat!
Congratulations! You're on your way! Now write directions from where you stand, to where you would go for a play!
Well done! You got a hole in one! Now, it's time to escape to the ultimate house in a tree. Find the biggest tree for me!
Yes! This is the perfect tree to build our ultimate treehouse. Now, design and draw your ultimate hangout. For your next clue, you must convince your Principal what it's all about!
Start tapping your feet… the end is near. But first head to the place you will find the oldest children this year.
You're so close to completing your adventure. You've found the oldest, now where are the youngest?
You've been here, you've been there. It's time to escape to everywhere. Go to a place you can get lost in a book.
Congratulations! You made it to the end of your challenge. It's time to go on another adventure! Choose a book and escape to another world!
An exciting short story about two children escaping a maze using clues! Matching task cards are included for students to explore after the text has been read!
Go outside and collect leaves, twigs, flowers and other items outside to create a collage of the maze.
We have a gorgeous banner and some posters that may be useful.
A classroom display banner to use during Book Week 2017.
A set of 6 fairytale story settings background posters.
Fairy Tale stories are always well known by your students and they can easily escape into one of the settings of their favourite Fairy Tale story.
Using our Fairy Tale story Settings Posters. Students complete a Five Senses Graphic Organiser for their favourite setting.
Let us know what you have planned for Book Week in your school and classroom?
Where can we find the templates 'escape to everywhere task cards" for the book week?
ie: post card and character profiles?
This is the blank character profile we have – https://www.teachstarter.com/teaching-resource/character-profile-template/.
We also have Little Red Riding Hood characters – https://www.teachstarter.com/teaching-resource/little-red-riding-hood-character-profile-worksheets/.
And, Hansel and Gretel characters – https://www.teachstarter.com/teaching-resource/hansel-gretel-character-profile-worksheets/.
We don't have a template for the postcard.
Where are the Escape to Everywhere task cards?
Here is a link to our book week task cards – https://www.teachstarter.com/teaching-resource/book-week-task-cards-escape-everywhere/.
its okay – i found them! They are not linked under the book week resources though.