After four fantastic years of encouraging children to read more for pleasure with creative events, festivals and workshops, Read a Million Words launches its brand new interactive website for children and teachers on Monday 29th April 2008.
The new site is a dedicated repository of information, guidance and resources for teachers, and offers a fun, colourful and creative way to launch the challenge of reading a million words to children. Youngsters can now register online in a safe, secure environment, to obtain their online reading passports, travel through the land of a million words, play games, download certificates and much, much more.
The new Teachers’ Section enables educational professionals, teachers and parents to register for an account where they can monitor children’s online reading passports, download the Read a Million Words Reading Audit, post blogs, keep wikis of current reading for pleasure activity in school, access resources, ideas, competitions, case studies and a whole host of support materials.
The redeveloped online resource is the result of over a year’s consultation with Read a Million Words Champion Schools. Children and teachers from 30 schools were asked what they would like to see in the new interactive site. Melissa Thom, Project Manager from Read a Million Words said:
“This new portal has been developed by teachers and children to help them to support and encourage each other to read more for pleasure and purpose. It is a fantastic resource that offers case studies and advice, which can be used independently, at school in class or at home with parents. The new site is there to help those who wish to launch this simple challenge and to show that it can be fun! With this year being the National Year of Reading, now is the perfect time to redevelop the idea of Read a Million Words and reignite a love for reading in Bristol”.
The new interactive website has been supported by Somerfield Stores Ltd, who have backed Read a Million Words from the start of the project in October 2004.
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To register for your online Teacher or Parent account, or sign up your child to the Read a Million Words online passport, visit: www.readamillionwords.org.uk. Read a Million Words is exclusive to Bristol with 40,000 children in 145 local schools having signed up to the challenge. It is supported by Bristol City Council and GWR FM and endorsed by The National Literacy Trust and The Basic Skills Agency.
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For further information please call Read a Million Words Project Manager:
Notes for editors: Read a Million Words, PO Box 2000, 1 Passage Street, Bristol, BS99 7SN. www.readamillionwords.org.uk. Registered Charity Number 1102999