Book Week 2026 | Warm Ups Bundle | Upper Primary & High School

Celebrate CBCA Book Week 2026 with a collection of high-engagement, 5-minute warm-ups designed to get students reading, thinking, collaborating, and talking about books from the moment they walk through the door! Inspired by this year's theme, Symphony of Stories, these activities are perfect for upper primary and high school and provide a fun, low-prep way to build excitement throughout Book Week.

What's Included In This Resource?

🎭 A Huge Variety of Activities: 12 project and go activities including: Book Week Bingo, Rebus Puzzles, Vocabulary Fly Swat, Logo Challenge, Photograph Detective, Four Corners, Who Am I?, Classroom Feud, Emoji Challenges, Categories, and much more! (See video preview for the full collection.)

✏️ Editable Templates: Every activity is fully editable, allowing you to customise questions, texts, and difficulty levels for your students.

⚡ Plug-and-Play Ready: Simply project the PowerPoint and play—no printing, cutting, or preparation required.

📚 Flexible Use: Perfect as morning work, lesson warm-ups, brain breaks, literacy rotations, transition activities, or to celebrate Book Week across the entire week.

Why Teachers Will Love It

✅ Saves hours of planning with ready-to-use activities.

✅ Creates an exciting Book Week atmosphere without sacrificing valuable learning time.

✅ Encourages retrieval, discussion, vocabulary development, and critical thinking.

✅ Fully editable to suit different year levels, novels, and classroom contexts.

Why Students Will Love It

🎉 Fast-paced, game-based challenges they'll actually look forward to.

🤝 Opportunities to collaborate, compete, and celebrate their love of stories.

📖 Engaging activities inspired by books, films, characters, authors, and popular culture.

✨ A fresh challenge every day that keeps Book Week exciting from start to finish.

👉 Bring the excitement back to Book Week with warm-ups that older students will genuinely enjoy. These engaging activities are the perfect way to celebrate

Symphony of Stories while building literacy, sparking conversation, and creating a classroom buzz all week long!