Reading Enriches Learning (Secondary)

Are you looking for some great ways to engage children in reading? Do you need classroom-ready support to introduce new texts into your year plan?

Curriculum Corporation offers you Reading Enriches Learning: Fiction, free online activities and assessment.

This selection of books in the Reading Enriches Learning series features the theme Humour. Each book explores a serious issue, such as bullying, coming of age and culture, in a way that is seriously funny. The books will provoke giggles, chortles and open discussion of the underlying issues. They have been carefully selected so that a range of student interest and ability is catered for.

Supporting the introduction of these popular fiction titles in your classroom, www.curriculum.edu.au/rel provides quality FREE online teaching resources. This attractive, easy-to-navigate site contains:

• free online teacher notes, including an overview of the text and author profile
• an extensive series of focus questions for teachers to ‘set the scene’ for studying the text
• small group activities
• whole-class activities and
• individual activities
• detailed assessment ideas to support each book in the categories, self-assessment rubrics, a portfolio collation of work samples, and peer-assessment on the use of oral skills.

Titles in this collection include:

• Nips Go National by Ruth Starke
• Are you Listening? by Lydia Sturton
• Ferret Boy by Sue Lawson
• Pop Starlets by Josie Montano