Readathon

Write a review of your school READATHON event by clicking on the comments link below. Tell us what you enjoyed, what you read, how much money you raised.

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We Tell Stories

Check out this fascinating experiment in digital fiction launched by Penguin. Six digital stories in six weeks written by well-known authors and inspired by classics. Charles Cumming tells his story ‘The 21 Steps’ (Yes, you guessed it, John Buchan’s 39 Steps) through Google Maps! ‘Fairy Tales’ (Hans Christian Anderson) involves the reader in choosing who/what [...]

Be a Reading Champion (Girls and Boys)

To achieve your Warrington Bronze Reading Champion Certificate you must declare your enthusiasm for reading by:

attending the Warrington Reads Sherry Ashworth workshop or the Pupil Book Group at Borders
leaving a comment on the BLOG
writing a book review either about Paralysed or another book
helping to promote reading in your school (e.g. help out in the [...]

Sherry Ashworth Workshop April 10th 2008

We want to know what you think……………
about Sherry Ashworth’s book Paralysed
about the workshop
about what you REALLY like reading – not connected to school
about your favourite reads
In fact about absolutely anything to do with reading for others to share. Please post a comment below.

REMNANTS

Have a look at George Beedham’s ‘infinite canvas’ comic. Instead of being arranged in pages, the story itself dictates the shape that the images follow which in turn affects how it is read by the audience. There are also a few bits of sound and animation thrown in for good measure.
For Scott McCleod’s explanation of [...]

May: Mind and Body

Celebrate the links between reading and health. Run activities in partnership with health and wellbeing agencies. Emphasise the importance of bonding through parent and child reading together. Emphasise the link between mind and body.

Many library authorities run ‘Books on prescription’ or ‘Bibliotherapy’, and many surgeries have a BBC RaW Swaps bookshelf
Encourage/train staff in local sports [...]

April: Read All About It!

Read anything and everything, anywhere and everywhere. Run activities that celebrate reading and highlight a sense of challenge. Use newspapers or journalism as a tie-in.

Encourage boys and men to write newspaper-style reviews of sport games, e.g. a football match.
Conduct a competition within school to find the best, and offer rewards
Conduct a reading survey throughout school [...]

Warrington Reads Poetry Competition 2008

Get involved!
Theme: Life Changes / Overcoming Adversity

The competition is open to all pupils

The prize will be a MP3 player and book tokens for runners up.

No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency

I loved reading the series of 9 books by Alexander McCall Smith and was thrilled to bits to watch the dramatisation of the first book, ‘The Number 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency’, on BBC1 recently . The characters were just as I had imagined them and the Botswana setting was stunning. Highly recommend you read them [...]