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Holiday Reading
School holidays are upon us and unfortunately they certainly won't be the holidays we thought we would enjoy as we remain in lockdown. Hopefully the sun will shine so we can enjoy the outdoors. It will also be a perfect time for your children to relax with some reading. Below are several ideas for some e-books and audio book sites that are available to you and easy to access.
Oliver - Students can log into our own e-library system to read an e-book. You will find directions on how to borrow from Oliver when you scroll down the page.
Students may have a class code that they can use to log in to Epic.
Audible - They offer a 30 day free trial membership and have a fantastic range of books for children to listen to.
Looking forward to seeing everyone's smiling faces back at school as soon as we are able to.
2021 NSW Premier's Reading Challenge
Great News!!
Due to the current challenging circumstances that we are all facing the Premier's Reading Challenge has been extended for 2 weeks. The closing date for students is now Friday 3rd September, 2021
Students are now able to include up to 10 Choice Books on their reading records. All students are able to include books on their reading records that they read collaboratively as a class, in person or online with their teacher or at home with their parents/carers. You can find more information about these adjustments on our Rules pa
Ten read-aloud commandments from Mem Fox
Spend at least ten wildly happy minutes every single day reading aloud. From birth!
Read at least three stories a day: it may be the same story three times. Children need to hear a thousand stories before they can begin to learn to read. Or the same story a thousand times!
Read aloud with animation. Listen to your own voice and don’t be dull, or flat, or boring. Hang loose and be loud, have fun and laugh a lot.
Read with joy and enjoyment: real enjoyment for yourself and great joy for the listeners
Read the stories that your child loves, over and over, and over again, and always read in the same ‘tune’ for each book: i.e. with the same intonations and volume and speed, on each page, each time.
Let children hear lots of language by talking to them constantly about the pictures, or anything else connected to the book; or sing any old song that you can remember; or say nursery rhymes in a bouncy way; or be noisy together doing clapping games
Look for rhyme, rhythm or repetition in books for young children, and make sure the books are really short.
Play games with the things that you and the child can see on the page, such as letting kids finish rhymes, and finding the letters that start the child’s name and yours, remembering that it’s never work, it’s always a fabulous game.
Never ever teach reading, or get tense around books.
Please read aloud every day because you just adore being with your child, not because it’s the right thing to do.
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