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4th March 2021

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In 2021 World Book Day, just like everything else, will be different. We've adapted to make sure that World Book Day sends a powerful and positive message about books and reading, even in lockdown.

For more information about how World Book Day will happen in 2021, please visit our FAQs.

We are thrilled to share with you all the exciting new developments we have in store for this year's World Book Day campaign. We have the new World Book Day Book Club and Share a Story corner, as well as the exciting new line-up for 2021's £1 books.

Our Author & Illustrator Academy videos are now live! These include all of our brilliant £1 book authors and illustrators, with lots of exciting challenges and activities to make reading even more fun and interactive.

Our Share a Story Live Events will encourage even more children to get involved in reading for pleasure, so be sure to save the date and tune in.

Check out all the new World Book Day books here. Alongside the 12 new titles, we have one exclusive World Book Day Ireland £1 book and a new World Book Day Welsh title.

We're also offering you sneak peeks inside all the brilliant new £1 books, to help you decide which one to pick! Take a look here.

At The Bookseller's Conference 2020, we announced all our plans for the World Book Day 2021 campaign. The conference took place as a live digital event, and it was great to see so many people tune in and have such enthusiastic responses. Our CEO Cassie Chadderton spoke with three of our brilliant £1 book authors about what World Book Day means to them, and how storytelling can be more important than ever in times like these. Our exciting panelists were:

Joseph Coelho, author of Luna Loves World Book Day.

Katherine Rundell, author of Skysteppers.

Sita Brahmachari, author of The River Whale.

We also shared updates about the very exciting new projects we have coming up: Share a Story Corner and World Book Day Book Club! Our campaign plan for the upcoming years will aim to reach more children that ever before. We want to make sure every child has access to books, and our upcoming events - all digital for the year ahead - will help children enjoy reading for pleasure as a life-long habit.

The new £1 books will be available from February 2021.

Registration for World Book Day 2021 has now closed. To check the status of your registration, please email wbd@education.co.uk. Read more about the £1 book line-up here.

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World Book Day 2021 Announcements - World Book Day

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In 2021 World Book Day, just like everything else, will be different. We've adapted to make sure that World Book Day sends a powerful and positive message about books and reading, even in lockdown. For more information about how World Book Day will happen in 2021, please visit our FAQs.

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In House Activities
Get involved with our online Book Clubs - Access through Teams Here
Scribble Society - Young Writer's Competition
School Newspaper
School Library

Vocabulary Matters
Build your vocabulary with these apps
Up Your Vocabulary! Masterclass
Words of the Week
Say it right with the Synonyms Wheel

Book Recommendations
Empathy Labs books to increase tolerance and empathy across all age groups.

Black Lives Matter Books
9-12 years
13-16 years

Carnegie Medal Nominees - Here's the long list so far this year. I have no clue how they'll choose a winner out of these beauties!
The Guardian travel books

BBC Newsround - updated daily

The Reading Agency's Read Talk Share programme is designed to combat loneliness through the winter of 2021 through books and conversation for all.
Reading Well through The Reading Agency.
Books about Covid-19

Local Offer
Shropshire E-Library Service

Shropshire Council Links to Audiobooks and E-books

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Oak Academy and The National Literacy Trust have teamed up to bring you a free and extensive online library. Find it here.

The Reading Agency's Digital Resources for Lockdown.

BBC Bitesize Daily and Big Read lessons and assorted chapters of books read by authors, celebrities and children - something for everyone.

The National Literacy Trust are also offering something for the younger crowd with their Words for Life. Children up to the age of 12 can learn and practice phonemes, graphemes and blending.

This is followed up with Zone In for 13+ which offers weekly challenges, words with the authors, cultural explorations in Literature and much more.

Booklists for all!

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For older students and parents, NLT offers Careers Advice, Digital Literacy guidance and some celebrity input as well to help you navigate the technological world around you.

Literacy support for parents and carers.

Using podcasts for all ages to support Literacy.

Literacy and Mental Health and Wellbeing
Place2Be and National Literacy Trust have teamed up to put together a bunch of resources to help young people through these tough times. Videos, guidance and more links found here.

Place2Be website also found here.

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Microsoft Guides and Tips for Parents and Guardians.

Using an Xbox or Playstation to access Microsoft Teams video.

Accessing Fiction Express for English Homework.

Screen overlay filter to reduce eye strain or for dyslexic traits and/or scotopic sensitivity.

Using the immersive reader on Teams.

Checking outstanding assignments on Teams.

Quick guide for parents/carers on Teams.

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Reading Research - Unbelievable podcast series here on the science of reading and the strands of the reading rope. Really, really great and super informative.

NLT survey finds that move to digital engagment is not a new thing!

Further Reading
Closing the Reading Gap by Alex Quigley (2020)
Reading Reconsidered: A Practical Guide to Rigorous Literacy Instruction by Doug Lemov (2016) The Reading Mind by Dan Willingham (2017)
Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World by Maryanne Wolf (2019)

Websites
Shanahan on Literacy

Research
Reading in the disciplines: the challenge of adolescent literacy

Read All About It: Why reading is a key to GCSE success