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Reading Rocks!
: Artwork © Freya Blackwood |
Freya Blackwood's lively banner produced to support the theme
for Book Week 2005, effectively conveys the message that Reading
Rocks!. It
invites young people to participate
in the numerous pleasurable and satisfying experiences that
reading offers. Encourage creativity as well as collaborative
learning, speaking, listening, thinking and organisational skills,
by asking students to respond to literature and favourite information
books through music, song, dance, dramatic performance, recital,
writing and the visual arts.
In particular, expose students to a diversity of poetic writing
that can in Maurice Saxby's words, carry the responsive reader
into a world where the senses sing, soar or are quietly soothed.
(Books in the Life of a Child,
p.8. ). Immerse classes in poems,
rhymes, chants, nonsense verse, selected prose passages, verse
novels and picture books that demonstrate the power of well-chosen
words or engage students in the pleasure of playing with language.
Direct students too, to stories that feature music or dance
as important elements in people's lives.
Choose an approach that best meets the needs of your students
taking into consideration their Phase of Development, interests
and prior experiences.
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