World Read Aloud day is in place to motivate, children, teens and adults to celebrate the POWER OF WORDS.
This global literacy movement is about taking action to show the world that the right to read and write belongs to ALL PEOPLE! And no-one has the power to take it away from you!
World Read Aloud day asks everyone to celebrate the day by grabbing a book, finding an audience, a buddy, or even your furry friend, and reading out loud. (To be honest, my furry friends prefer me to be reading a can of cat food - but they are good enough to sit still for a while and listen.)
Why is reading aloud important? A 2015 study found that children are exposed to a larger vocabulary from picture books read aloud, than from conversations with adults. This appears to be because we tend to speak with the same 5000 most popular words; while books - even picture books - are more likely to use words outside of that popular 5000. (This also demonstrates my point about how important picture books are, no matter your age) The other point that came through clearly in the study was that children who are read to, are far more likely to become lifelong readers.
Although World Read Aloud Day has previously been celebrated on March the 5th - this year it was moved to February 5th. However, don't let that stop you ... we can celebrate it on March 5th or any other day that appeals.
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Monday, 2 March 2020
Wednesday, 3 February 2016
World Read Aloud Day 2016
If anyone is interested - February 24th is World Read Aloud Day. This is a day to celebrate the power of words - and is about taking action to show the world that the right to be able to read and to write belongs to all people, whoever and wherever they may be.
World Read Aloud Day asks everyone to take part by grabbing a book, grabbing an audience, even if it is only one other person and reading aloud. You have the right - use it!
Some other ideas to try could include:
* Make bookmarks to hand out with information about the day
* Ask someone from outside the school to come and read aloud to the class
* Make posters about the day and put them up around the school
* Have a classroom discussion about the fact that worldwide at least 793 million people remain illiterate and why this is so bad.
* Maybe each student could read aloud a paragraph from their silent reading books
Make it a day to celebrate the power of words!
Friday, 13 February 2015
World Read Aloud Day
http://www.readaloud.org/why.html
http://www.busylibrarian.com/2015/02/world-read-aloud-day-2015.html
World Read Aloud Day is Wednesday, March 4th, 2015. Last year over one million people in more than 80 countries celebrated this day of joy.
"World Read Aloud Day is about taking action to show the world that the right to read and write belongs to all people. World Read Aloud Day motivates children, teens, and adults worldwide to celebrate the power of words, especially those words that are shared from one person to another, and creates a community of readers advocating for every child’s right to a safe education and access to books and technology.
By raising our voices together on this day we show the world’s children that we support their future: that they have the right to read, to write, and to share their words to change the world."
Maybe 15-20 minutes spent reading aloud with your class is a good way of celebrating this day - whether you are reading, or you and your class are reading, it is all good. Maybe we can have someone come in and read? To try and help get the students involved, we should all be modelling what we keep telling them to do - READ!
Any suggestions or ideas? Maybe a brief entry on this blog about book choices, genres, etc. could get people interested? Share it with the students as well - this blog is for them as much as for the staff.
http://www.busylibrarian.com/2015/02/world-read-aloud-day-2015.html
World Read Aloud Day is Wednesday, March 4th, 2015. Last year over one million people in more than 80 countries celebrated this day of joy.
"World Read Aloud Day is about taking action to show the world that the right to read and write belongs to all people. World Read Aloud Day motivates children, teens, and adults worldwide to celebrate the power of words, especially those words that are shared from one person to another, and creates a community of readers advocating for every child’s right to a safe education and access to books and technology.
By raising our voices together on this day we show the world’s children that we support their future: that they have the right to read, to write, and to share their words to change the world."
Maybe 15-20 minutes spent reading aloud with your class is a good way of celebrating this day - whether you are reading, or you and your class are reading, it is all good. Maybe we can have someone come in and read? To try and help get the students involved, we should all be modelling what we keep telling them to do - READ!
Any suggestions or ideas? Maybe a brief entry on this blog about book choices, genres, etc. could get people interested? Share it with the students as well - this blog is for them as much as for the staff.
Thursday, 29 January 2015
Games and Computer coding skills
With computer coding now being regarded as a 21st century skill, there are lots of sites, activities and so on to teach and enhance understanding of coding. Some of these are aimed at students as young as 5!
Below are a couple of links to go back even further than using a computer to develop these skills - using no-tech board games. Check it out and see for yourself. Couple of games that have scored high on the reviews are: Code Monkey Island and Robot Turtles.
http://venturebeat.com/2014/06/03/12-games-that-teach-kids-to-code/
http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2015/01/no-tech-board-games-that-teach-coding-skills-to-young-children
The site I took the second one from is called MindShift, and is one that I have linked on the blogroll on the right-hand side, and it is all about different ideas and thoughts on lots of subjects for teaching our students, not just computer coding.
Also, just thought I would point out that March 5th is World Read Aloud Day. Probably something worth celebrating, even a little, in your classrooms. And February 14th is Library Lovers Day - just saying!
Below are a couple of links to go back even further than using a computer to develop these skills - using no-tech board games. Check it out and see for yourself. Couple of games that have scored high on the reviews are: Code Monkey Island and Robot Turtles.
http://venturebeat.com/2014/06/03/12-games-that-teach-kids-to-code/
http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2015/01/no-tech-board-games-that-teach-coding-skills-to-young-children
The site I took the second one from is called MindShift, and is one that I have linked on the blogroll on the right-hand side, and it is all about different ideas and thoughts on lots of subjects for teaching our students, not just computer coding.
Also, just thought I would point out that March 5th is World Read Aloud Day. Probably something worth celebrating, even a little, in your classrooms. And February 14th is Library Lovers Day - just saying!
Tuesday, 11 February 2014
Library Lovers Day & Banjo Paterson
Just out of interest - you may like to know that February 17th will be the 150th birthday of 'Banjo' Paterson, one of our best-loved bush poets. As our new curriculum seems to have more of a focus on poetry it may be a day to introduce our students to some of his works.
Friday is Library Lovers Day (and Valentine's Day) and here in the Library we are pleased to be able to facilitate some meetings between books and readers in the hopes of seeing romance bloom.
We are organising Blind Dates with books. We have lots of mysterious wrapped up parcels of eager books just waiting to be borrowed and enjoyed. These will be on display on Friday and can be borrowed all day. There are lots of Fiction, along with some Non-Fiction books that wanted to get in on the action as well. All sorts of genres and information.
So come in and give it a try - what have you got to lose?
Just for general information and pre-planning there are a number of days throughout the year that promote READING. Some of these are;
World Read Aloud Day March 5th
National Simultaneous Storytime May 21st
Indigenous Literacy Day September 3rd
Picture Book Month November
The last one is probably my favourite - love those picture books!! So if you have any ideas of things we could do to celebrate those dates, come and see me.
I am looking for people to write brief book reviews on books they have read and enjoyed from here, so if any of your students are interested, that would be wonderful.
Have an awesome week everyone!
Friday is Library Lovers Day (and Valentine's Day) and here in the Library we are pleased to be able to facilitate some meetings between books and readers in the hopes of seeing romance bloom.
We are organising Blind Dates with books. We have lots of mysterious wrapped up parcels of eager books just waiting to be borrowed and enjoyed. These will be on display on Friday and can be borrowed all day. There are lots of Fiction, along with some Non-Fiction books that wanted to get in on the action as well. All sorts of genres and information.
So come in and give it a try - what have you got to lose?
Just for general information and pre-planning there are a number of days throughout the year that promote READING. Some of these are;
World Read Aloud Day March 5th
National Simultaneous Storytime May 21st
Indigenous Literacy Day September 3rd
Picture Book Month November
The last one is probably my favourite - love those picture books!! So if you have any ideas of things we could do to celebrate those dates, come and see me.
I am looking for people to write brief book reviews on books they have read and enjoyed from here, so if any of your students are interested, that would be wonderful.
Have an awesome week everyone!
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