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Summer Reading

29/11/2019

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LIANZA Office has been watching all the interesting summer reading programmes popping up around the country. For instance, Buller District Library has some really fun things planned!
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in the May/June issue of Library Life we interviewed Rachel Williamson about the Summer Learning Journey, which is designed to address the ‘summer slide’ in literacy skills for students in years 4-8. The ReadNZ also recently interviewed Rachel about the project, which is now in its sixth cycle. Originally designed for students attending the English medium Manaiakalani Cluster schools in east Auckland, the Summer Learning Journey is now undertaken by students in other regions of Aotearoa.
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Buller District Libraries

Every year libraries around New Zealand run summer reading programmes in a bid to help reduce the ‘summer slide’. This is when students go backwards in their reading levels if they are not practising their reading during the school holidays.

Emma Sherie, District Librarian, says, when I took over my role 15 months ago. Summer reading had come to a bit of a stand still. Children had disengaged from it for various reasons. I wasn’t made aware of this until it was too late to look for funding. So, last year our fabulous librarian in Reefton saved the day by putting together a programme last minute. Turnout was not high due to not having time to market it. I think we had approximately 12 children complete it. This year we had time to prepare and we are pretty pleased with our efforts.

Thanks to the Grey and Westland District Libraries, who made me aware of the Pub Charity fund that they apply to, and provided me with some of the documentation for the application. Our team attend LIANZA weekend school this year in Christchurch. We heard from Rosamund at the Nelson Libraries who educated us about their summer reading programme. This introduced us to a reading map concept and Rosamund provided us with her templates to work from.
We were successful in obtaining the requested funds through Pub Charity and ‘The Mighty Buller Summer Reading Programme’ was born. The idea of the theme came from myself. Twelve years as a primary teacher has taught me that children are more engaged if the activity is relatable to them. We also wanted children from all age groups be able to use the same map. So we introduced a ‘readometer’. This informs children on how many minutes they are expected to read based on their age. We engaged with a graphic designer and we were thrilled with the end results.
It is now time to market the programme and we have been visiting all the local schools, talking on the radio, and advertising in the local papers. This year our aim is to get 100 students participating. The response so far has been overwhelmingly enthusiastic. Our biggest problem is probably going to be not having enough spots.

This really does highlight the power of collaboration. Due to Grey, Westland and Nelson Libraries sharing their knowledge we were able to lift our summer reading programme game. We want to pass that love forward. So, we are sharing what we have come up with in the hope that it might inspire others.
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The National Library

Did you know that the National Library have a Summer Reading Guide which includes information for schools as well as public libraries and whānau?
The passion I am asking for from teachers is a passion beyond the pay cheque. It's a passion for children's books, as well as for their own reading, for if teachers don't love to read, why on earth should children?— Mem Fox

Special summer reading fiction loans for school staff
This summer National Library Auckland and Christchurch centres will open every day from 10-5:00 pm, from Monday 18 November until Friday 13 of December to allow school loan coordinators to select summer reading loans of junior and YA fiction. They can select the items on behalf of staff at their school (ALL staff are encouraged to read), bring staff with them to select their own books or staff may come on their own if unable to accompany their loan coordinator.
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Summer reading distance offer
If school staff are based at a location other than Auckland and Christchurch and would like books to read over the summer, you can either place a whole-school loan request, OR staff can send an email to servicestoschools@dia.govt.nz with Summer reading in the subject line. Our librarians will select a range of junior and YA fiction. Please also provide:
·         your name
·         the name of the school
·         the number of school staff you would like books for, and
·         the maximum number of books you would like.
 
Summer reading loans can be returned at the same time as term 1 whole school loans – 9 April 2020, but feel free to return them before then. And remember you can use our special courier deal for schools.

Read NZ Te Pou Muramura (formerly NZ Book Council) ​

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Kiwi kids can read their local cricket team to victory this summer

The Super Smash Reading Challenge brings together two favourite Kiwi summer pastimes: cricket and reading. 
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Read NZ Te Pou Muramura (formerly NZ Book Council) has joined forces with New Zealand Cricket’s T20 summer tournament to get kids reading more books over the holidays.

The Super Smash Reading Challenge is a new interactive website. Primary and intermediate-aged children are invited to register for free and choose their local cricket team to ‘play’ for.

Players log the books they read over the summer, along with a star rating and short review. A leader board keeps track of the Super Smash teams as they move up and down the rankings accordingly.

The Super Smash Reading Challenge will run until the final T20 cricket game on 19 January. 

Sign up for the Super Smash Reading Challenge by registering at reading-challenge.org.nz .

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