End of the Crusade

It’s the end of the Reading Crusade for 2009. Thanks for participating and keep an eye out for more fun reading events from Christchurch City Libraries!

Winners Announced

The winners for the 2009 Reading Crusade have just been announced – click here to see if you have won!

Final Tally

The figures are in and there were 24,000 individual entrants in the Reading Crusade!
Great work everyone!
Keep an eye out for the announcement of winners…

Teachers’s Link of the Week – Story Machine

Spin the Story Machine to help you think of characters and settings for the story, then choose your format (e.g postcard, newspaper article, letter) write and illustrate your story and send it around the world to print. A fun way to integrate technology into story writing time.

Reading Summaries

The Reading Crusade is drawing to a close – try to send in your reading summaries ASAP

Printable Certificates

Looking for a slick way to encourage achievers in your class? Try a personalised printable certificate.

This site lets you choose form heaps of different occasions and themes.

Student’s Link – Geronimo Stilton

Geronimo Stilton has an awesome web page. It is in the form of his newspaper – The Rodent’s Gazette – and features games, stories, audio and more from this great mouse detective.

Teacher’s Link of the Week – Puzzle Maker

Armored Penguin has a strange name but a great puzzle making feature! You can make:

• Crosswords
• Wordfinds
• Word Scrambles

It is all free and a great way to make vocab or spelling puzzles. Or you could get your class to make a list of words from their favourite books and then they could turn it into a puzzle for the rest of the class.

Weekly Reading Challenge – Instructions

Reading can be invaluable in everyday life. If you want to learn how to do something, reading instructions is a great way to start. Here are some sample Origami instructions – you could make a heart, a penguin or a boat!

Friday fun fact

If you read a book every week of your life, starting when you were 6, you could read 3744 books. That means you would only be able to read .3% of the books that the Library has!