Organise a readathon within the class or year level. The challenge could be set up like a scavenger hunt with students challenged to find and read a range of books including fiction and non-fiction, and covering a range of topics.
At the end, collate a list of all the books that the participants managed to read.
Provide the class with a framework for a story, including a location, a challenge and a resolution. As part of the story, the protagonists must split up to work towards the resolution.
In groups, have the class work together to finish the story by writing separate chapters from the point of view of a different character and relating how they contributed to the resolution.
Each group could be given a prompt they must incorporate into their story, which could be presented as a mystery to the other groups; for example, ‘A loud roar was heard in the distance; it was too far away to know for sure, but it sounded like a dragon’. One group could then be prompted to incorporate a dragon into their part of the story.
Once everyone is finished, read the story as a class with a representative of each group reading their chapter.
Choose a well-known fairytale or nursery rhyme and read it together as a class. Have the students rewrite the fairytale in the first person and update it for the modern world.
Create a collage that depicts your school or classroom. Using a large picture frame, layer the collage to enforce perspective. Students can draw themselves doing various jobs around the classroom. Have them add themselves at the appropriate layer.
As a class, write a short story to accompany the collage.
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