Creating storyboards
Get the boys to create comic storyboards illustrating what it means to them to be a Reading Champion or what reading means to them in general. These could then be displayed around the school as a way to recruit other Reading Champions or to encourage boys to read more.

Top reads
Get the boys to vote for their top five or top ten comic characters or comics. Make this into a recommended reading list and display it around the school.

Using illustrators’ work
As part of a reading club session, get the Reading Champions to look at the artwork of their favourite illustrators. You could then make displays of the Reading Champions’ favourite illustrators’ work.

Recommending reads through storyboards
Get the boys to create a comic storyboard or comic-style frames to promote their favourite reads.

Stock selection
Involve the boys in choosing comics and graphic novels for the school library. Invite them to stock selection meetings with your school library service, if you have one, or ask them to give you a list of comics and graphic novels they would like to see in the library.

Superhero alter-ego
Encourage Reading Champion boys to create their comic book or graphic novel superhero alter-egos. They could then run a 'dress-up as your superhero' reading group session or a group session where they become their hero and promote their comic/book.

Author or illustrator visit
Help Reading Champions to arrange for a comic illustrator or graphic novel author to visit the school and talk about their work and characters. The visitor could run a workshop around storyboarding or creating a comic book character.

Create a storyboard
Get the boys to create their own storyboards based on local events or local history/famous faces. They could create a fictional storyboard based around their love of reading or why other boys should become Reading Champions.

Buddying
Reading Champions could include graphic novels and comics in their work with their buddy partners.

School newsletter/website
Reading Champions could have their own comic strip in the school newsletter or on the school website. This could be regularly updated to create an ongoing story across the year.

Using ICT
Get the boys to create their own animations to encourage other boys to get reading. If you are focusing on manga, you could use anime – the cartoon version of manga – as inspiration.

Storytelling session
Hold a storytelling session and invite Reading Champions and their buddies along. After the session hold a workshop to draw comic frames based on the session. You could then put all the frames together to create a complete story and a wall display.

Graphic novel club
Encourage the boys to set up a graphic novel / comic club where they discuss comics they have read and even produce their own comic for distribution in school.