From the 17th - 23rd August, the Childrens' Book Council of Australia is celebrating Book Week.To mark this occassion, the ISC has a number of activities that will help promote a strong culture of recreational reading within our campus.Our Executive will be visiting our Year 7 English classes to talk about the books they have loved reading and at lunchtime there will be a number of quizzes and prizes to be won..Book trailers created by our Year 9 students will be shown in the ISC each lunchtime and also in the front window of the Collins Bookstore in Raymond St,Sale.The ISC will also be launching the Wheeler's ebook platform to the senior campus as well as Good Reading online and Spimeout online.Finally,well known Australian author, Michael Gerard Bauer, will be visiting our campus as our 2013 "Author in Residence",running creative writing workshops and speaking to our Year 7-9 cohort.
Below is a great presentation given by science fiction author, Neil Gaiman at Book Expo America 2013.He explains well the importance and value of reading.His presentation was called Why fiction is dangerous?He states that "it is dangerous because it lets you into other people's heads;because it gives you empathy;it shows you that the world doesn't have to be like the one you live in."I couldn't agree more!
I'm sure you are all well aware of the benefits of reading, but here are two articles and infographic that you might like to look at.Pity about the spelling on the infographic though!
Proof Of Benefits of Reading
10 Benefits of Reading
Book Week at the ISC looks great
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