Teachers & Organisers
Organisers
7 steps to Organise a BIG READ event!
By holding a Big Read event between the 20th to 26th of April you’ll be joining in with millions of people reading the same stories and demanding education for all.
- Organise a venue – either in class or assembly for a teacher or elsewhere for a local organiser and invite as many people as possible to come to the Big Read
- Download the poster, stickers and resources here http://www.campaignforeducation.org/en/big-read-campaign-materials/
- Consider inviting a local politician and press and media to come to the Big Read event is possible
- Hold the Big Read. Any method of reading the stories counts – you could include a mixture of reading stories, hearing the interviews with authors if you can download them, ask the students to read them out to each other, even ask the children to write new stories – any sent to us will be included in the Big story book we will present to world leaders later in the year.
- Have a register for everyone that is present and supports Education for All to write their names for those who can’t. Send this off to the President or Prime Minister in your country.
- If a politician or local signatory is present you could ask them to sign up their support for Education for All. You can also ask them to pass on the register to your country’s President or Prime Minister on your behalf.
- Send the Global Campaign for Education a record of how many people took part in the Big Read and tell us if you would like to hear about further events in support of Education for All.
Teachers
10 other ideas of how you can use the BIG READ book in the classroom:
- Like Dakota Blue, try your hand at writing a story about a child or creature that is denied an education.
- Hold a class debate between children missing out on school and world leaders, inspired by the stories from The BIG READ book.
- Invite your local or national politician to come in for a story session from the book, or to tell a story.
- Retell some of the stories, or use them to inspire your own, about children who face barriers to education.
- Create your own class or individual book to be shared with the whole school, perhaps in assembly, so the whole school learns about The BIG READ.
- Hold a mock interview/ hot seating session with one of students playing an author or character from the book. Alternatively present a news bulletin telling the story of one of the characters in the stories.
- Recycle your book by passing it on to other teachers.
- Collect stories of people you know who are struggling to get an education, and send them to your politician asking them to help everyone be able to get an education.
- Make a pipe cleaner Ed, or a puppet one, to retell the story or even invite a younger class into your classroom to meet Ed the Stick insect!
- Homework: read one of the stories from the BIG READ to your parent or guardian at home and ask them if they want to take part in the BIG READ and to add their name on this website
