Literacy+Fair+Ideas


 * __Book Sale__**: students bring in used books for this sale with the proceeds going to purchase resources for the library.


 * __Book Exchange__**: students bring in books with them to the Literacy Fair and exchange them for books from other students.

(1) [|Tumble Books] (2) Assistive Technology (Kurzweil) (3) How to make a podcast. (4) [|Wordle]* (5) [|Build your wild self]*: (6) [|Make your own superhero.]* Write a description of your hero: Hero can be printed off website or saved as a JPEG for future use. (7) [|Comic Master]
 * __Literacy-Based Technological Innovations__**:
 * Students and parents learn how to record family members telling their own stories or reading their favourite stories. Lend the completed podcasts out to families so that they can be shared together in the home and/or with other families.
 * Use [|Readwaves] to post collection of story podcasts.
 * Make your own 'wild self' and think of vocabulary / similes / metaphors to describe the creation.
 * Think about the special abilities your character might have.
 * Share ideas about the different adventures they may have.
 * What super-powers do they have?
 * What adventures do they have?
 * What is their alter-ego like?
 * Do they have a side-kick?
 * Write an incredible adventure for your super-hero.
 * Who is their arch enemy?
 * Make your own graphic novel online using predesigned layouts, characters, captions, props, and effects.
 * Theme - superheroes/villians
 * Work can be saved online - just need to sign up for membership on this free site.
 * Denotes ideas taken from [|Teaching Ideas].

(1) //**Word Sorting*:**// Recognize word patterns by having participants sort a series of words into short-vowel word families. (2) **//Character Trading Card*://** a way to explore a character in a book or pre-writing exercise when creating characters for original stories. (3) **//Mystery Cube*://** Summarizing tool that helps participants identify and list key elements for a mystery. (4) **//Book Cover Creation*://** Participants make their own cover of a book from the read aloud area. (5) **//Bio-Cube*://** Summarizing tool that helps participants identify and list key elements about a person for a biography or autobiography. (6) **//Literacy Doodle*://** Combines the process of writing with analytical thinking by pairing drawing with writing prompts that encourage participants to make connections between visual designs ans the text. (7) **//Shape Poem*://** Participants will go through a systematic process in order to create a shape poem (A poem that describes an object and is written in the shape of the object.). (8) //**Book Bingo:**// brief description needed. (9) [|Using Drama for Picture Books] (10) [|Telescopic Text] (11) [|Pick Lits]. (12) [|Reading the Crime Scene] (13) [|Poe-Tree] (14) Make a one-page Graphic Novel based on one of read alouds. (15) Story Box* (16) Story Sack* > book with supporting materials to stimulate language activities and > make reading a memorable and enjoyable experience. (17) Curosity Kits* (NEED MORE SUGGESTIONS!)
 * __Literacy Booth Ideas__** (* denotes ideas taken from the [|Read Write Think] website)
 * Used to see how basic sentences can be expanded by adding extra detail / adjectives / adverbs etc.
 * Give children a basic sentence (e.g. I walked home). Can your pupils expand it and add extra detail?
 * Get them to challenge each other... one person writes a basic starting sentence and others have to expand it.
 * Demonstrates the importance of good notetaking and extracting pertinent information from text.
 * Students are presented with a crime scene and they have to take notes from the scene and dissect witness statements to figure out who did the crime.
 * Resources for this activity:
 * Strategy used to help reluctant readers/writers love poetry.
 * Handout on Graphic Novels
 * Blackline masters for graphic novel creation (pp. 4 - 5 of document below)
 * A story box is a miniature setting, a shoe box-sized stage with a background and objects within it relating to either to a specific book, or to a common story scenario.
 * Story boxes are a great resource to support children’s exploration of stories. They form areas in which to retell a favourite story, as well as creative arenas for children to make up new stories too – both encouraging talk, imagination and literacy skills.
 * A story sack is a large cloth bag containing a favourite children's
 * Curiosity kits are intriguing collections of printed materials (e.g., books, magazines, etc...), artifacts and extension activities on topics of interest. They inspire huge amounts of purposeful discussion, reading, writing and research. They are an invaluable aid to subject teaching and cross-curricular learning, and have a proven track record in changing children’s attitudes to reading.
 * - literacy resources that would stay at school and could be signed out by students for use at home.

__**Graffiti tree**__ (NEED MORE SUGGESTIONS!)
 * __Graffiti Wall__**
 * Rating books through pictorial or semantic representations;
 * Feedback on event (i.e., likes and dislikes, suggestions for improvement for future events);
 * Favourite characters, sections of books read aloud.
 * Use part of a wall in the school to create a graffiti tree. Distribute graffiti leaves to parents and students who want to recommend a good read and attach their comments/ reviews to the branches of the tree.

(1) Thunder Bay Public Library (Promoting Community Literacy) (2) Thunder Bay District Health Unit (Nutritional Literacy)
 * __Partnership With Other Organizations__**

__**Read Aloud Area Themes**__
 * Mystery
 * Graphic Novels/Stories
 * Non-Fiction
 * Fiction (Books from around the world - China, Japan, India, etc...)
 * First Nations
 * text forms on topics like bullying, Catholic Virtues (e.g., social justice, charity, faith, etc...), ESL (new immigrants), High Interest Low Vocabulary books, etc...

__**Passport to Literacy**__ After completing each read aloud area or literacy booth, participants receive a stamp on their literacy passport which they can redeem for a prize at the end of the night.

__**First Nations Storyteller**__ (WORK IN PROGRESS)

__**Door Prizes**__
 * read aloud book selections;
 * Reading Is... posters;

__**Passport Redemption Prizes**__

__**Take-Home**__
 * 1) **__Resource Toolkit__** - outlining how to use the multisensory strategies demonstrated during the evening along with either a curiosity kit, story sack, or story box (WHAT DO YOU THINK?).
 * 2) **__Literacy Resource Booklet__** - contains an outline of educational strategies used at Literacy Fair; helpful websites; list of literacy resources available from school; listing of books read aloud at event; community partner info page.
 * a palm size (portability - fit in purse or pocket)/ concise/ easy to use format/ 1 activity per page;
 * pictorial and linguistic;
 * needs to be durable - made with heavy cardstock/ laminated front and back cover/ one hole-punched/ held together with 1" binder ring;
 * if possible, get some translated into ESL/ESD learner dialects (e.g., Polish, Ojibwe, etc..)