Reading as a rewarding 鈥榗hallenge鈥
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IT is commonly known that, due to the myriad of other forms of entertainment vying for their attention, encouraging young people to read today is potentially the most difficult it has ever been. However, one of the most significant challenges in education is not persuading young people to read, but to persuade them to read quality material.
We have a fantastically engaged and multi-talented body of students.
As an alternative to a traditional book club, we participated in an Asian Book Award scheme several years ago. Each year, students were given the challenge of eight books to read. We created an activity book and allowed students to feel a sense of community with their reading and to make it more of a shared rather than solitary experience. When asking for student feedback, we discovered that eight book choices proved a lack of challenge for our highly engaged prolific readers. Therefore we decided to construct our own school challenge to raise the profile of reading. We have entitled it “The 100 Book Awards” and have crafted an extensive list of well over 100 highly engaging texts of literary merit suitable for their age group. We have given them a huge range of genres, writers and time periods and have given them the autonomy to select their own reading challenge and the amount of books they want to read. We have also tied in school events throughout the year, including “extreme read” photo challenges, a series of learning activities and a huge variety of book-based exciting experiences tied to World Book week including fancy dress and a colorful, all-night sponsored reading event.
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