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BOOK CROSSING & BOOK SWAPPING
Objectives
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To engage children in reading through open and authentic activities.
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To develop reading communities and enhance the school culture.
Setting, materials and preparation
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Setting: All school premises.
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Materials: Plastic, transparent wallets for books, cards or notepads for
comments, tables and signs for book-swapping point.
Step-by-Step Description
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BOOK SWAPPING: A book-swapping point is set up in the school playground,
which is run by group of older students. On specifies, regular days and times,
students can bring a book to school that they no longer want and swap in with
someone else.
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BOOK CROSSING: Books are put in plastic transparent wallets and left in
random places on school premises for children to find and read. Students can
take books home to read but have to return them and leave them somewhere
in school for the next person to find. Children who find and read a “Lost
Reading Book” write a couple of sentences about the book and leave their
comments in the plastic wallet for the next reader who will find it.
Sources
National Literacy Trust (
)
Lockwood, M. (2008).
Promoting Reading for Pleasure in the Primary School
. London:
Sage Publications.
