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'World Book Day or World Book and Copyright Day (also known as International Day of the Book or World Book Days) is a yearly event on April 23rd, organized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), to promote reading, publishing and copyright. In the United Kingdom, the day is recognized on the first Thursday in March. World Book Day was celebrated for the first time on 23 April 1995. ' Wikipedia.
That is a little reference about World Book Day and as teachers we must to celebrate this day in our classroom. We take advantage of promote reading and encourage to our children read everyday. We must design a lesson plan for this day, including activities such as reading in a loud a famous book the whole class, make up a story all children and create a different character for it, make a wall chart for this day, etc.
Although doing these activities, we have to foster showing all advantages that books provides us:
- Mental Stimulation
- Knowledge
- Vocabulary Expansion
- Memory Improvement
- Stronger Analytical Thinking Skills
- Improved Focus and Concentration
- Better Writing Skills
- Tranquility
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