Here at LoveReading4Kids every day is World Book Day. After seeing the creative ways that schools celebrated World Book Day earlier this year, we decided to create a series to share the bookish joy happening in schools across the UK - so that week in week out, we are keeping the pleasure of reading alive.

For the first in the series we will be heading over to Moorlands Primary School in Norfolk to share in the expertise of English Lead and reading for pleasure aficionado Jon Biddle.

“One way we celebrate reading at Moorlands is by thinking about our personal reading identities and how they change over time. We start by getting them to draw a picture of their teacher and then write down five or six things they know about us readers.

(Mr Biddle loves reading Varjak Paw...Mr Biddle reads stories to his children...Mr Biddle always says he wishes he could read more).

Once we've done that, we talk about whether there was anything they all picked up on. We then ask them to draw themselves and write about their own reading identity. This is always fascinating and often teaches us something new about the pupils we teach.

For example, when we did it a couple of years ago, one child wrote something along the lines of 'I would read more at home but I don't have any books'. This was obviously something we were able to address as a school. We learn about their favourite books and authors, what reading 'habits' they have, books they're looking forward to and how they see themselves as readers. It's a really useful activity and leads to lots of discussion about what they have in common as a class. It's also worth repeating later in the year so they can see how their reading identities have evolved."

We are also big fans of reading scrapbooks here at LoveReading4Schools. These are a great way to promote reading for pleasure. Each week a child is selected to read a book and complete a page about the recommended read in whatever way they would like to, to best share and showcase what they loved about the book. It can be character-led, plot-driven, a review, a diary entry, a letter, an illustration - their call. Anything to help them share the book with others and encourage reading.

We are delighted to share here a wonderful video of one of Jon's students sharing their class reading scrapbook, complete with lift-the-flap creativity!

Follow Jon on Twitter: @JonnyBid