Engaging Kids in Reading & Writing
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Reading & Writing in Classrooms
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Make it Fun
• Enter writing competitions
• Create an anthology for the school library with children’s work
• Learn to write riddles and jokes
• Read funny and strange words in class and ask children to
make up new words
• Create a class newspaper
• Write a letter to their favourite author or illustrator
• Write a recipe for something strange like a witch’s potion or a
dinosaur’s cough medicine
• Write book reviews / movie reviews
• Write a blurb for an unwritten book
• Author visits especially those that are locally based and/or
closer to the children’s experiences.
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Example:
Try Now! The knight parked his wagon by a
Write a single sentence that combines
fence and charged ahead to conquer
three of the below – go for bizarre, the dragon-fruit.
magical, out of this world!
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HOW TO ENCOURAGE READING FOR
PLEASURE?
• Read together, read where children can see you reading
and see what you’re reading.
• Encourage children to blog and review
• Encourage children to write to author/illustrators
• Discuss the underlying historical / political / current affairs
connection
• Discuss the science behind the stories
• Read books and movies made out of them
• Create fan art
• Create fan art and animate it
• Create assembly sharing sessions
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Some Book Project Ideas
• World Cup of Books – Find out • Create a play based on the book
more here. • Shoot an action trailer
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• Book of the week displays by
• Agree a theme and find books that
fit the theme teachers, head-teacher and children
• Art project • Discover and share a new author –
• Science project to help read widely
• Maths project • School Comicon celebrating comics
• Museum / Gallery trips around and graphic novels
books that are being read • Non-fiction week
• Visit illustration galleries - • Read around the world projects
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• The Cartoon Museum books
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Involving Authors, Illustrators & Poets
• Regular author visits – not just during WBD
• Patron of Reading – where a school and an author work
together over 2 years
• Author residencies – where an author creates work with
children
• Fully functioning libraries with librarians
• SKYPE visits
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Links
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Writing Competitions
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