Today, 4 March, children and adults across the globe are participating in World Read Aloud Day. Books LIVE has gathered together some reading aloud hints and tips, and some great resources, to help you celebrate the day.
Let’s make every day Read Aloud Day!
Litworld Resources
Litworld, the founder of World Read Aloud Day, has made a number of resource packs available on their site, including a Classroom Kit, Community Kit, Home Kit, Office Kit, and a free picture book for you to download, New Day, New Friends.
You can also register for World Read Aloud Day, and help Litworld reach their target of 100 countries:
Book Dash children’s books
Book Dash has a fantastic range of children’s books available to download.
View Tortoise Finds His Home by Maya Fowler, Katrien Coetzer and Damian Gibbs:
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Skype Literacy Project
For the month of March, Skype has introduced a multifaceted literacy programme, including an initiative that enables classrooms to set up Skype sessions with other schools around the globe, to celebrate World Read Aloud Day.
Skype has also introduced some great teaching aids, including a programme that allows teachers to invite an author to Skype with their classroom.
Users can select the age group of their students (5 to 9 years old, 1 to 13 years old, 14 to 18 years old) and choose a day to schedule the Skype call. Skype will then match them with a selection of authors and speakers, from which they can select a shortlist of seven.
Skype has also created other initiatives, including:
Participate in a featured literacy activity
Browse hundreds of literacy lessons
Create your own e-book to share with another class
Help Nal’ibali and Gcina Mhlophe Set a New Reading Record on World Read Aloud Day (and Win)
Nal’ibali, the national reading-for-enjoyment campaign, is attempting to break their read-aloud record of 2014 and needs all parents, teachers, grown ups and older brothers and sisters to read the same story at the same time to the little ones in their lives.
Gcina Mhlophe and Sally Mills visited the SABC to talk about the Nal’ibali World Read Aloud Day record attempt:
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Hints on Reading Aloud, from Reading is Fundamental
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