Today we have started our Book Fortnight. We are taking two weeks to celebrate reading for pleasure and to learn about ourselves as readers. We have lots of activities planned using resources from a range of publishers, authors and illustrators, also from Authorfy, Twinkl and Exciting Teacher.
We started our fortnight of Bookish Learning with our weekly trip to Sissinghurst. We took some books with us to enjoy some alfresco or wild reading.
Together we read All The Wonderful Ways To Read and we thought about ourselves as readers.
Using a sheet of prompts from Twinkl we thought about where we like to read, when, who with and what we like to read. We also talked about our favourite authors. The twins both chose Ross Montgomery and the younger two both chose Paula Harrison. We learned that it is hard to just have one favourite author which led us beautifully on to exploring The Rights Of The Reader. We discussed the original rights and then we wrote out some of our own. I have loved learning alongside my children today and talking all things reading over coffee, hot chocolate and cake.
All The Wonderful Ways To Read is a brilliant and beautiful picture book from Little Tiger Press. Written by Laura Baker with stunning illustrations by Sandra de la Prada. Every page is filled with books, readers and reading. There is so much to talk about on every spread. We love spotting our favourite animal readers and the creatures that seem the most like us and people we know.
All The Wonderful Ways To Read is a celebration of books and reading. It shines a light on the joy reading brings. It shows children that no matter where they read, what they read, how they read or who with, they are never alone. This book is filled with the magic of stories. It shows how we all read differently. Some of us are fast readers, racing through the pages. Some of us read more slowly, perhaps dipping in and out of different books. Some of us love to read alone, others of us love to read aloud or listen to stories being told. Some of us read with treats, some of us read by torchlight and some of us read on the loo.
We loved the warmth in the illustrations and the humour. Gorilla reading a tiny book, two mice carrying a big heavy hardback.
My children love that this book celebrates all reading. Graphic novels are mentioned, non fiction is there, labels on bottles and listening to stories read aloud.
We also love that illustrators are championed with children encouraged to become artists and authors themselves.
This book links wonderfully with Daniel Pennac’s The Rights of the Reader.
Reading is for everyone. We all read in our own way. We are never alone with a book, with a story.
All The Wonderful Ways To Read is definitely a new firm favourite here at Edspire HQ.
A joyful celebration of books that encourages us all to read whatever, however and wherever we choose.
How will YOU read?