ESCAPE TO EVERYWHERE: IDEAS AND ACTIVITIES FOR

BOOK WEEK AND BEYOND

S U S A N S T E P H E N S O N – T H E B O O K C H O O KS U E J O H N S T O N – A S L A B O A R D D I R E C T O R

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Now it is over to Susan Stephenson ….. The Book Chook

Escape to Everywhere

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B Y S U S A N S T E P H E N S O N , W W W . T H E B O O K C H O O K . C O MA N D

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Susan Stephenson

An Australian reader, writer and teacher with two websites, www.thebookchook.com and www.susanstephenson.com.au

Creates and freely shares activities

to guide children’s learning.

Values what libraries and librarians offer.

Loves and reviews children’s books.

Escape to Everywhere

What does Escape to Everywhere mean to you? What does it mean to the students you teach?

As a reader, I’ve been to Hogwarts, Outer Suburbia, The Land of Take What You Want, jungles, the bottom of the sea and outer space. When I’m reading, it feels like I actually AM some place else - I can hear the mournful hoot of an owl, smell gunpowder or feel the thunder of hooves approaching. I can escape to real worlds too, and learn about everything from creating code to decorating cupcakes.

Exploring the theme

The idea of an escape as a change, a holiday, something different

An opportunity to look at escapes in life and via media, particularly in children’s books

Specific books that feature escape scenes, exploring different environments, settings different to our own lives

The power of books and reading to transport us, to allow us to experience other places, other realities, other lives than our own

Book Week Scenario - Escape Focus

This is a suggestion for a whole class or group activity that involves kids in thinking, planning, responding, creating, communicating and writing.

Find more information at (The Book Chook, Ideas for Children’s Book Week 2017.)

Media Comparison: Escape Focus

Compare The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmore book with the short film, and the app.

All your school’s library books have developed the ability to fly. One escapes through an open window, and you must get it back or face the Wrath of the terrifying Mrs Liberry. You decide to get it back. What happens next? Make a storyboard about this adventure from your point of view. Create a series of images, text excerpts and sound files you can use to make a short video about it.

Find more information at (The Book Chook, Ideas for Children’s Book Week 2017.)

Escape Room - Escape Focus

Create an “escape room” for another group of kids. Could be part of a room, could be made from cardboard boxes, could actually be a smaller box that must be opened.

A theme is unifying but – lots of work!

The idea is to have a puzzle or puzzles to be solved and escape from a room, or solve the riddle of a box. Draw on elements of theatre, maths, tech, literature, literacy. Misdirection can also be fun!

Find more information at (The Book Chook, Ideas for Children’s Book Week 2017.)

Display Ideas - Escape Focus -1

Students’ self portraits with top of head missing, add book bits.

Find more information at (The Book Chook, Ideas for Children’s Book Week 2017.)

Display Ideas - Escape Focus - 2

Big wall map of a

simple journey,

add book characters

and scenes,

brief reviews,

photos of student

reading escapes.

My ReviewBy Ty, 2G

You should read this book!By Melanie and

Todd D.

My Reading Escape

Display Ideas - Escape Focus - 3

Travel display with passports, brochures etc

Activities for Students - 1

So far, ideas have come from Ideas for Children’s Book Week 2017, at The

Book Chook, and are aimed at teachers, TLs.

These next examples of activities are more specific and address students.

These activities can be found in Activities for Kids - Children’s Book Week 2017

at The Book Chook.

You’ll find a range of activities and opportunities for critical and creative

thinking, communicating, self-expression and collaboration.

Activities for Students - 2

🙀 An evil overlord has taken over your country and banned books and reading. How does that make you feel? What effect does it have on the population generally? What can you do about the problem?

📹 Choose one book from the 2017 CBCA short list, read it and make a 60 second video, reflecting on that book. OR Create a short video about your favourite book for kids.

🌃 Choose your favourite scene from a short-listed or other book for kids and re-create it in LEGOs.

Find more ideas at The Book Chook: Activities for Kids - Children’s Book Week 2017

Activities for Students - 3

🌳 Draw and label the tree house you would like to live in some day. Include some kind of escape hatch so you can grab your magic book and get away if you need to. Write out directions for using the escape hatch.

🚵 Which famous real or fictional people have escaped from somewhere or something? Choose one to find out more about and collaboratively present your information with some classmates. You might consider Zorro, Doctor Who, Bilbo Baggins, Harry Potter, Aslan, Harry Houdini, the children in The Silver Sword, Rapunzel, the Three Little Pigs, or Hansel and Gretel.

📺 Design an advertising campaign to tell others about, and persuade them to buy, one of the short-listed books. You might include posters or full page magazine ads, radio and TV ads, banners and stickers or other ideas.

🎎 Think about a character you would like to escape from. Create a picture of that character - if you’re using paper, take a photo of your picture/structure so you get a digital version. Use a video/audio app like YakiT Kids or Shadow Puppet to bring your character image to life.

Find more ideas at The Book Chook: Activities for Kids - Children’s Book Week 2017

Questions or Comments?

More Resources

Book Week Wiki Mrs Mac’s Library A list of all my Children’s Book Week articles Book reviews: Barbra Braxton’s The Bottom Shelf, Just So Stories,

Children’s Books Daily, Liz Derouet, Read Plus, Momo Time to Read, The Book Chook, Kids Book Review

Specific urls found in separate document

Find more information at (The Book Chook, Ideas for Children’s Book Week 2017.)

Book Curator

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ASLA has teamed up with The Book Curator to provide our members with a great offer on their time-saving service.

Members of The Book Curator receive:

Eight issues of The Book Curator magazine per calendar year. This full colour 44 page publication includes more than 40 detailed book reviews each issue, plus author interviews, articles and useful information of interest to school librarians.

A special supplement in May reviewing all notables in the CBCA Awards

Regular discounts and special offers on books and resources

Access to a searchable database of reviews

Access to past issues of the magazine online and more!

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Join The Book Curator as a new member for the 2017 calendar year and you’ll receive a 10% discount on the membership fee.

Membership form and other details at:

https://www.bookcurator.com.au/page/homepage

Book Week resource available soon.

https://www.bookcurator.com.au/page/2017-book-week-ideas-and-activities

Book Curator and Book Week

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Other resources

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Children’s Book Council of Australia http://cbca.org.au/

(and state based groups)

Syba Signs

http://sybasigns.com.au/events-and-themes/book-week

Zart Art http://zartart.com.au/

Ipswich Distict TL Network

http://idtl.net.au/book-week/show-all.php

Booktopia

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ASLA has a partnership with Booktopia through which ASLA benefits from your purchase of resources.

Buy resources from Booktopia and maximise your membership benefits. You can purchase resources including Book Week titles, Australian Curriculum resources and more from Booktopia.

Click on the Booktopia link on the ASLA website http://www.asla.org.au/advocacy/news/resources-for-the-Australian-Curriculum.aspx

Bookshops to go …

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Bookshops galore, eg:

Pegi Williams http://www.pegiwilliams.com.au/home.asp

Riverbend Books http://riverbendbooks.com.au/

St Georges Books http://sgbooks.com.au/

Kinokuniya Books http://www.kinokuniya.com.au/

The Children’s Bookshop http://www.indies.com.au/thechildrensbookshop/

The Kids’Bookshophttp://www.thekidsbookshop.com.au/

Escape with a book

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Let’s escape by Mike Dumbleton (1997)

Grandpa’s great escape by David Walliams (2015)

The great shark escape by Jennifer Johnston (2000)

Escape from mr. Lemoncello’s library by Chris Grabenstein (2015)

My Australian story: escape from Cockatoo Island by Yvette Poshoglian (2013)

Skydancer’s escape by Deborah Kelly (2016)

Escape from the overworld: an unofficial Minecrafter’s adventure by Danica Davidson (2014)

Movies

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The great escape (1963)

Escape from Sobibor (2001)

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008)

Free Willy: Escape from the pirate’s cove (2009)

Ferris Bueller’’s Day Off (1986)

Chicken Run (2000)

My little pony: escape from Catrina and other adventures (2014)

The swan princess II: escape from castle mountain (1997)

Makerspace and more

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Escape room in the library https://au.pinterest.com/pin/251638697908458273/

Makerspace and more

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Parachute Stem Challenges

applefortheteach.blogspot.com

Breakout games https://au.pinterest.com/explore/breakout-game/

The true adventures of a high school

librarianhttp://www.nikkidrobertson.com/2016/04/

breakout-edu-jchs-library.html

Clutching at straws

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Straws

http://www.teachersareterrific.com/2015/09/its-all-about-those-straws.html

Your ideas and suggestions?

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