Congratulations to all schools who participated in the Readers Cup on Friday. It was a fantastic day and the setting at ACMI was awesome.
Well done to Korumburra Secondary College for taking out the year 7 & 8 section and Brighton Secondary College for winning the year 9 & 10 section.
Brighton Secondary College year 9 & 10 winning team - well done guys!
Judith Hawes, Brighton SC Library Manager (left), the winning year 9 & 10 team and Karen Boyd, teacher-librarian (right)
The Burra girls from Korumburra Secondary College: year 10 team…
Karmai Bookworms from Korumburra Secondary College with the year 7 & 8 trophy and their coach, Marica Ryan
Thanks also to the winners, Brighton Secondary College year 9 & 10 team, for allowing the video of their creative piece on Nick Earls and Rebecca Sparrow’s book Joel and Cat set the story straight to be viewed here:
Thanks to author Nick Earls for taking the time to view the video above. He commented that Brighton SC ’have done a great – and very amusing – job.’
We would love to see more schools participate in 2010, so stay tuned for more details….
With less than two weeks to go to the Victorian State Finals of the Readers Cup, the excitement is building!
If you are interested in joining us next year (and don’t forget that we’ve love to expand the competition to include grades 5 and 6, please consider coming along to the Australian Centre for the Moving Image at Federation Square in Melbourne at noon on Friday 27th November. Please call SLAV 9349 5822 for more details.
A reminder that registrations for the 2009 Readers Cup Victorian State Final close on Friday 31 July. You don’t need to have run a Readers Cup in your school to participate. You only need to register and enter a team (or teams) that have read the books (and composed a creative piece) by 27 November. Registration form can be accessed here. Book lists available below.
It’s time for us to release the titles of the books you’ve voted to be included in the Readers Cup final to be held at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image on November 27 2009.
Drumroll please…. The books are…
Year 7 and 8
Rangers Apprentice Book 1 by John Flanagan
Diego, run! By Deborah Ellis
Hana’s suitcase by Karen Levine
Dragonkeeper by Carole Wilkinson
The creative round will be on Dragonkeeper.
Year 9 and 10
Tomorrow when the war beganby John Marsden
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
Joel and Cat set the story straightby Nick Earls and Rebecca Sparrow
The whole business with Kiffo and the Pitbull by Barry Jonsberg
The creative round will be on Joel and Cat set the story straight
Now is your chance to check that your library has at least one copy of the books listed. It is a great idea to start students reading before the holidays.
Registration forms were mailed to all SLAV members this week.
The School Library Association of Victoria is pleased to announce that the State Final of the Readers Cup will be held at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image on Friday 27th November, 2009. More details to come, but please ensure that you have cast your vote for the books that the teams will be quizzed on! You may access the survey here.
All schools participating in the Readers’ Cup State Finals are invited to help select the books that will be chosen. Please fill out this survey and your vote will count! Click Here to take survey
The rules for the SLAV 2009 Readers Cup State Final have been released. Please click here for a copy or go to the link on the right hand side of the page.
As most of you know, the Premier’s Reading Challenge commences on Monday 2 February and finishes on 31 August. To help things along, all of the Readers Cup books that have questions and answers provided (links on the right hand side of the page) that are on the PRC list have been noted. Just hover your mouse over the title of the book and if it is on the PRC booklist, it will give the year level.
As per the PRC FAQs students can read from PRC lists above and below their year level.
This is a great way for students to read a book once but to use it twice; once for the Readers Cup and once for the PRC.
From http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/teens_books_9780316067928.htm
Just to let you all know the blog image header (picture courtesy of http://www.twilightthemovie.com/) is from a quote by Bella Swan in Stephenie Meyer’s popular Breaking Dawn (p. 523). It really reflects what a lot of teenagers feel about reading and the great thing is that we can change the idea that reading goes unrewarded (for our students at least).
