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BOOK DETECTIVES
Objectives
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To explore the characteristics of books with all their senses.
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To discover the variety of books available to them
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Children to come in touch with a big volume of texts.
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To experience the need to read specific books they have encountered during
LiRe activities.
Setting, materials, and preparation
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Place: Library, classroom
Step -by-step description
The activity can take place with individual students or in groups. The idea is for children
to play as “Book Detectives”
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Children work in pairs and read a book to themselves.
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They then have to write a set of questions based on the book that they have
read
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Give the questions to their partner.
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Partners have to answer the questions in their detective note books
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Swap back and compare answers with their partner.
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Who managed to find all the answers?
Sources
Brasseur, P. (2005).
1001 activités autour du livre: raconter, explorer, jouer, créer
. Paris:
Casterman.
