Highland School Library Toolkit
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Reading Promotion

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Personal reading

S1 reading review (pdf) |
S1 reading review (Word)

S2 reading review (pdf) |
S2 reading review (Word)

Desert Island reading (pdf) |
Desert Island reading (Word)

Never judge a book by its cover (pdf) - an activity around the opening paragraphs of books

Review postcard (Word)

Personal study

Activity sheet to help S4 preparation for personal study (pdf)

Award shadowing

Criteria for assessing books (pdf)

Carnegie shadowing assessment sheet (pdf)

HBA assessment sheet (pdf)

Example of a filled in sheet (pdf) showing a number of pupils' assessments in relation to Carnegie and Highland shortlisted books

Games etc

S1 fiction games (pdf)

Beginnings (pdf)

Harry Potter quiz (pdf) | answers (pdf)

Treasure Hunt (Word) - collect the names of the favourite books of members of staff

Ice breaker questions for book groups:

http://www.southampton.gov.uk/libraries/books/setting-up.asp.

Everyone got a sheet of questions and we took it in turns to choose a question from the list and ask the others.  The ones who re-read books till they fall to bits were surprised that others never read a book twice. 
Gillian Siwek

Highland Reading Webs - four webs catering for pupils from P5 to S6.   There are personal reading challenge schemes to go with all but the Higher web site, and booklets and certificates can be downloaded from the sites.

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