World Book Day
An annual reading celebration, in the UK usually on the first Thursday in March, often with costumes and book tokens.
- Used in
- All four UK nations (details may differ)
- Topic
- School life
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Related terms
- Reading level United States
- A measure of the difficulty of texts a student can read, such as a Lexile measure or a guided reading level.
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