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News from The Reading Agency
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Summer Reading Challenge conference
We are in countdown to the Summer Reading Challenge conference on 13 November at the British Library. If you are a senior librarian,
literacy adviser or have a strategic role for children within a local authority please come along to help shape the Challenge's future.
We are delighted that Alan Yentob, Creative Director of the BBC, will round off the conference by exploring the importance of the Challenge as
a flagship national model of creative activity for children. Look forward to seeing you there. Please book here.
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Six Book Challenge
Through the Six Book Challenge we can change people's lives by helping adults tackle their literacy problems.
Libraries, workplaces, prisons and adult literacy tutors are signing up to help the adults they work with to take up the Six Book Challenge 2010.
Join our new interactive blogging website and sign up now at our Shop.
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"Once I had finished the Six Book Challenge, I felt great and I was ready to try reading different kinds of books. I feel I can understand people
better now and I can express myself more easily because I know more words. Being able to read has really boosted my confidence and I feel good
about myself." Luke Brazil is a student at Treloar College, which supports students with complex physical disabilities.
Luke did the Six Book Challenge in 2009.
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Chatterbooks
At a vibrant event last week the British Council launched Connecting Classrooms: Chatterbooks. This is our new partnership which will take
Chatterbooks reading groups for children aged four to twelve overseas. Through this partnership in 2009 to 2010 Chatterbooks will be used in
14 schools in the UK and in Ghana, China, Egypt and Pakistan. We are also encouraging libraries and schools library services to use Chatterbooks
in UK schools to help children explore the world through reading. This is particularly relevant to the national curriculum's new emphasis on
global issues. Read more or
buy Chatterbooks packs and resources.
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Booktrust Teenage Prize reading guides
The new reading guides we have produced to support the Booktrust Teenage Prize are now available to download for FREE.
We will also have blogs and features on the shortlisted authors on www.groupthing.org.
If you're not yet a groupthing subscriber, try it! Look on our Shop.
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More4/Channel 4 promotional materials
We are pleased to announce an exciting new promotion for the New More4/Channel 4 Book Club (official title TBA).
From the team behind the hugely successful Richard & Judy Book Club comes a brand-new book show which will be broadcast on More4 and Channel 4
from January 2010. The series will run for 10 weeks and each episode will be 30-minutes long. Libraries can order promotional materials from
our Shop. Order deadline 23 November 2009.
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Reading for pleasure with Entry Level learners
We're delighted that we have funding from the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation to do a study into using reading for pleasure with Entry Level learners.
Our aim is to involve tutors, library staff and learners and come up with a model for injecting new approaches and materials into regular
teaching practice for this audience. This will involve action research in three locations (Warrington, Hampshire and the London Borough of Brent),
followed by two expert seminars. Let genevieve.clarke@readingagency.org.uk know what materials, printed and online, have worked for you when
working in this field.
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Festival of Learning
Throughout October we've been supporting, in partnership with the MLA, the government's Festival of Learning to showcase how important libraries,
museums and archives are to informal adult learning. We running writing workshops called Celebrating Real Lives that link to the BBC's My Story
campaign and encourage people to contribute true stories to www.bbc.co.uk/mystory. Some of our Reading Detectives events have been filmed for the
Festival and employees at Fox's Biscuits met Accent Press's Quick Reads author Lindsay Ashford at the opening of their new learning centre.
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The Big Secret
In partnership with the National and the North West Youth Libraries Board and based on the National Libraries Youth Offer, we have been getting
young people to set out what libraries have to offer and how young people can get involved. They have called this campaign The Big Secret and have
been developing its visual identity and making web videos. Find The Big Secret on groupthing from January 2010 at
www.groupthing.org/thebigsecret.
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Geekcamp
We ran our first Geekcamp event at Free Word on 28 October. People from different backgrounds gathered together to talk about 'geek' things.
Conversations covered everything from what makes people use a network to whether we are more or less liberated by online personas.
We are hoping to arrange more events in the future. In the meantime the twitter hashtag is #geekcamp1
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Nominated for a Children's Book Circle award
We are very happy to have been nominated for Eleanor Farjeon Award by the Children's Book Circle.
Winners announced on 17 November at an event at Penguin.
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Training
Our autumn training programme delivers a mixture of strategic support and support to run specific projects.
Book now to secure a place.
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Championing reading - involving volunteers in reading groups
Thursday 5 November CILIP, London and Thursday 11 February 2010, York Central Library
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Running the Six Book Challenge
Tuesday 10 November, CILIP, London and Tuesday 24 November, Priory Street Centre, York
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Chatterbooks training for schools library services
Tuesday 17 November, FreeWord, London
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Chatterbooks training for public library services
Thursday 19 November, RIBA, London
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Jobs at The Reading Agency
We are currently looking for a part-time PA for our director, 18 hours a week based in FreeWord or at home in Winchester area.
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Look out for...
Our new reading groups project for adult learners Chatabout. More information in next month's newsletter.
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Keeping in touch
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