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Australian Readers' Challenge
Take up the Australian Reader's
Challenge to read 10 books in six months. The national
challenge aims to tackle the literacy crisis in remote
communities.
Starts: 1
March 2006
Closes: 1
September 2006
Information & Book Lists:
Australian
Readers' Challenge
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- Book Clubs
- Talk
it Up!
Part
of the American Multnomah County Library, this
site provides information about how to start
and run a book group and includes discussion
guides to use with specific books. Teachers
will find guides for many titles found in Australian
school libraries.
- Book Clubs & Reading Guides
The
teenreads.com website
has information directed at young people on how
to start and run a book club. The extensive list
of reading guides includes many titles familiar
to Australian readers.
- The Teachit Book Group
This online book discussion
group for teachers is part of English Teaching
Online UK, teachit.co.uk,
established to help teachers of English,
Drama and Media Studies to share ideas. It
contains classroom materials, lesson plans
and teaching tools created by teachers, as
well as discussion forums, competitions and
news about English teaching. Participation
in the book discussion is easy. Simply read
one of the 10 listed books and then join
the discussion. A recent booklist contained
a mix of contemporary novels and classics,
familiar to Australian teachers and students,
including The Curious Incident of
the Dog in the Night Time, Memoirs
of a Geisha, Harry
Potter series, His Dark Materials trilogy,
Pride and Prejudice and 1984.
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- Developing a Reading Culture
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- Girls and Reading
- Girls'
Reads
Make a list of books with
girl appeal using the CMIS
Resource Bank. New titles
tagged regularly. Do a CMIS TOPIC search using
the term Girls' Reads and restrict search
by Phase of Development.
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 Girls'
Reads
Print-friendly version of Feature Article in Fiction Focus Vol. 20 No.
2 2006. p. 6-11
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