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A creative lesson where students get to explore the qualities and personalities that illustrations give to characters. Using CBCA’s shortlisted text, Winston and the Indoor Cat by Leila Rudge students will create their own feline character using an illustration to bring them to life.
16  Lessons
Grade: K-6

CBCA Book Week 2022

Book Week kicks off on the 20th August, a gorgeous time for celebrating children's literature and the incredible authors and illustrators in Australia. Cleverbean has created a number of engaging lessons and resources, to support Book Week celebrations in your classrooms and build on your students' excitement for literacy. Our lessons draw upon a range of quality texts and link with this year's theme 'Dreaming with Eyes Open.' We are thrilled to announce that we will be partnering with Scholastic, to make our lessons and resources free, to support this initiative that brings joy to children, teachers, parents and communities all over Australia.

A creative lesson where students get to explore the qualities and personalities that illustrations give to characters. Using CBCA’s shortlisted text, Winston and the Indoor Cat by Leila Rudge students will create their own feline character using an illustration to bring them to life.
16  Lessons
Grade: K-6

CBCA Book Week 2022

Book Week kicks off on the 20th August, a gorgeous time for celebrating children's literature and the incredible authors and illustrators in Australia. Cleverbean has created a number of engaging lessons and resources, to support Book Week celebrations in your classrooms and build on your students' excitement for literacy. Our lessons draw upon a range of quality texts and link with this year's theme 'Dreaming with Eyes Open.' We are thrilled to announce that we will be partnering with Scholastic, to make our lessons and resources free, to support this initiative that brings joy to children, teachers, parents and communities all over Australia.

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Essential Question/s
  • How can we develop students love and appreciation for reading through 'Book Week' celebrations?
Cross Curriculum Priorities
  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures
  • Asia and Australia’s Engagement with Asia
  • Sustainability
General Capabilities
  • Literacy
  • Critical and Creative thinking
  • Personal and Social Capability
  • Ethical Understanding
  • Intercultural understanding
  • ICT
Lessons
16  Lessons
Lesson  1
A creative lesson where students get to explore the qualities and personalities that illustrations give to characters. Using CBCA’s shortlisted text, Winston and the Indoor Cat by Leila Rudge students will create their own feline character using an illustration to bring them to life.
Lesson
Writing
Book Week 2022 - Winston and The Indoor Cat
Grades: K-2
Identify some features of characters and how particular images convey qualities of their nature.
Lesson  2
A fun lesson that combines creative language and movement to explore interesting verbs used in the CBCA shortlisted text, Jetty Jumping by Andrea Rowe.
Lesson
Reading | Writing
Book Week 2022 - Jetty Jumping
Grades: 1-2
Explore how a sentence can be made more vivid by adding unusual verbs.
Lesson  3
A fun, hands on lesson to use alongside Kaye Baillie’s wonderful picture book, ‘When The Waterhole Dries Up’, which is also shortlisted for the 2022 CBCA Early Childhood Book of the Year. Students will collaborate as they practice using alliteration to describe animals, as they construct a version of the story from a different perspective. A perfect lesson to introduce figurative language devices. Happy Book Week!
Lesson
Reading | Writing
Book Week 2022 - When The Waterhole Dries Up
Grades: 1-2
Identifying alliteration and using it to describe an animal.
Lesson  4
A simple and effective comprehension lesson for Stage 1 students. Using CBCA’s shortlisted text The Boy and the Elephant by Freya Blackwood students learn how to read a wordless picture book whilst creating a short summary of the story.
Lesson
Reading
Book Week 2022 - The Boy and the Elephant
Grades: 1-3
Summarise a picture book and identify the main ideas and/or themes.
Lesson  5
A fun reading lesson for grade 1 and 2 students. This lesson explores the book ‘Walk Of The Whales’ by Nick Bland and encourages students to think about the complications in a story. Students will create a new problem for the story and create an illustration to represent their problem.
Lesson
Reading
Book Week 2022 - Walk Of The Whales
Grades: 1-K
Make connections to the text ‘Walk Of The Whales’ by Nick Bland.
Lesson  6
A meaningful and important lesson using Ashleigh Barton’s beautiful text, What Do You Call Your Grandma?’, to inspire students’ thinking as they reflect on the older people in their lives who they are grateful for. Students write letters to their loved ones, letting them know what makes them special. This book is shortlisted for the 2022 CBCA Picture Book of the Year, and provides a range of opportunities for fantastic, inclusive discussion in the classroom. A wonderful activity for Grandparent’s Day at school. Happy Book Week!
Lesson
Reading | Writing
Book Week 2022 - What Do You Call Your Grandma?
Grades: 1-K
Identifying and celebrating a special older person in our lives (e.g. grandparent, relative, family friend) by writing a letter, in response to the mentor text, ‘What Do You Call Your Grandma?'
Lesson  7
A wonderful comprehension lesson that explores the theme of the text and encourages students to make their own connections to the text. Here we have students creating fruit for the class friendship tree that highlight ideas on how to be kind.
Lesson
Reading
Book Week 2022 - Amira’s Suitcase
Grades: K-4
Share my feelings about books, characters and events and make connections to my own life.
Lesson  8
A fun reading lesson for grade 1 and 2 students. This lesson explores the book ‘Walk Of The Whales’ by Nick Bland and encourages students to think about the environmental problems in a story. Students will create an artwork based on the book using recyclable materials..
Lesson
Reading
Book Week 2022 - Plastic Ocean
Grades: 1-2
Create an artwork in response to the book ‘Walk Of The Whales’ by Nick Bland.
Lesson  9
A thought provoking reading lesson for primary students, using CBCA’s 2022 shortlisted Book of the Year, ‘The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Peculiar Pairs’ by Sami Bayly. Here we have a drawing of a new peculiar pair of animals, to be added to the encyclopaedia which will be accompanied with interesting facts about how the buffalo and egrets help each other out in the wild.
Lesson
Reading | Writing
Book Week 2022 - The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Peculiar Pairs in Nature
Grades: 4-6
Identify the author’s point of view and techniques they use to persuade their readers.
Lesson  10
A fun reading lesson for students to explore the range of books on offer for the 2022 Book Week. This activity focuses on using the subheadings of ‘The Illustrated Encyclopedia Of Peculiar Pairs In Nature’ by Sami Bayly.
Lesson
Reading | Writing
Book Week 2022- Peculiar Pairs In Nature
Grades: 3-4
Identify textual features used to order and present information.
Lesson  11
A fun reading lesson for grade 5 and 6 students will have them working collaboratively to unpack the meaning of quotes about reading for Book Week Story.
Lesson
Reading
Book Week 2022 - Iceberg Quotes
Grades: 5-6
Engage in a discussion to form an opinion about the hidden meaning in a text.
Lesson  12
A fun and engaging lesson using the wonderful 2022 CBCA Notables text, Tomorrow Is A Brand New Day by Davina Bell. Using the text as inspiration, students are supported to write their own uplifting poem, reminding their reader to look on the bright side and embrace challenges. The book’s message also provides fantastic opportunities for rich discussion - happy Book Week 2022!
Lesson
Writing
Book Week 2022 - Tomorrow is a Brand New Day
Grades: 3-4
Using rhyming couplets to write poetry inspired by ‘Tomorrow is a Brand New Day’ by Davina Bell.
Lesson  13
A fun and meaningful lesson using Sonya Hartnett’s beautiful text, ‘Blue Flower’, to inspire students’ thinking as they reflect on what makes them unique. Students give and receive compliments in a safe and supportive environment, as they respond to the valuable lessons of the book, which is unsurprisingly shortlisted for the 2022 CBCA Picture Book of the Year. Happy Book Week!
Lesson
Reading
Book Week 2022 - Blue Flower
Grades: 3-6
Reflecting and celebrating our differences and understanding what makes us unique, and by giving and receiving meaningful compliments.
Lesson  14
A rich, fun and hands-on lesson to kickstart CBCA Book Week 2022! Students will reflect on the meaning of this year’s theme, “Dreaming with eyes open” as they design a bird mask of their own to wear as a headband. Students will use Jasmine Seymour’s beautiful illustrations as inspiration as they engage with the theme and create a class ‘flock’!
Lesson
Reading
Book Week 2022 - Dreaming With Eyes Open K-3
Grades: K-3
Understanding the 2022 CBCA Book Week theme.
Lesson  15
An engaging, imaginative and fun lesson to kickstart CBCA Book Week 2022! Students will reflect on the meaning of this year’s theme, “Dreaming with eyes open” as they visualise their thinking and respond creatively, using inspiration from Jasmine Seymour’s artwork. Happy Book Week!
Lesson
Reading
Book Week 2022 - Dreaming With Eyes Open 4-6
Grades: 4-6
Understanding and responding to the 2022 CBCA Book Week theme.
Lesson  16
An imaginative, engaging and creative lesson to support students from K-6 to visualise a text. Students will create a self portrait that includes the addition of reading glasses, which act as windows into the wonderful worlds they’re transported to when immersed in a book. That is, when they are “Dreaming with Eyes Open…” - the fantastic theme of CBCA Book Week 2022! Happy reading!
Lesson
Reading
Book Week 2022 - Dreaming With Eyes Open K-6
Grades: K-6
Visualising a text, by 'Dreaming with Eyes Open…'.
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