“A Parade of Books”

A Book Week Celebration

March 16th, 2012
Dear Parents,
Book Week is coming up in March! March 12th – March 16th will be a fun filled
week with many ways to celebrate reading. The week will begin with two days of
presentations and lessons from our visiting Author, Chris White. Please visit
http://www.authorsabroad.com/authors/profile/chris-white for more information.
Elementary School’s culminating event for Book Week will be a “Parade of
Books” in the morning of Friday, March 16th! Your child should come to school
that day dressed as a book character from one of his/her favorite books.
Please note that each child will need to come to school on March 16th with the
book that features this character. Please brainstorm ideas for the costume with
your child. All students will need to confirm their character choice with their
teacher BEFORE March 1st.
Use of recycled materials is strongly encouraged. There are many items that you
may already have in your home that would make a great costume (ex. Sheets,
boxes, poster board, clothes, etc.) There are also many ideas on the Internet. One
website is: http://www.planetesme.com/images/parade1a.jpg Some of the teachers
will dress up also. This will be a fun filled event and parents are welcome to attend
and participate!
Thank you in advance for all your dedication and support in developing a Love for
Reading into all our students at ISE! If you should have any questions, please
contact us at any time.
Sincerely,
Book Week Committee
Mrs. Garrett Mr. Pahls
agarrett@ise.ac.th jpahls@ise.ac.th
Please note the following guidelines and attached rubric for the “Parade of
Books”.
 Character Costume must represent a literary or historical figure. For
example, The Gingerbread Man or Louis Braille, not cartoon or
comic book characters!
 Character Costume must be “school appropriate”. No weapons please.
 Book featuring the character is to be brought to school and carried
during the parade.
 Recycled materials are to be used as much as possible.
 Come prepared to share your character’s name and why you choose
this character for your parade. (Specific presentation expectations may
vary by class/grade level.)
4 3 2 1
Costume The costume The costume The costume The costume
very clearly clearly doesn’t clearly poorly
represents the represents the represents the represents the
literary/historic literacy/historical literacy/historical character and/or
al character & character & book character and/or did not
Book is carried is carried in book is not carried participate and
in parade parade in parade book is not
carried in parade
Resourcefulness Recycled Recycled Few recycled Recycled
materials/prop materials/props material/props materials/props
s have been have been used have been used have not been
creatively used used
Originality The costume is The costume is The costume is not The costume is
very unique and unique and shows unique and shows not unique and
shows a lot of some effort very little effort shows no effort
effort or did not
participate
Presentation The student is The student The student The students
able to somewhat poorly represents does not
represent the represents the the character and/ represent the
character and character and tries or is unable to character and is
communicate to communicate communicate their unable to
their choice their choice choice communicate
their choice
WA ME WT WB Total Score:
16 – 14 points 13 – 11 points 10 – 8 Points >7
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