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o promote and reward reading, the librarian, in conjunction with teachers and the National Librarian, has designed the Junior reading challenge.
You will read towards the Bronze Reading Certificate, Silver Reading Certificate and Gold Reading Certificate. When you have finished reading and completed your response, return it to the library. You will receive your Reading Certificate in assembly, and your chapter book review will be published on the blog. Once you have attained one Reading Certificate, you can work towards the next Reading Certificate.
Note: You cannot use the same texts for each entry of one Reading Certificate – you need to read different articles/stories. Also, readings used to gain one Reading Certificate cannot be used to gain the next Reading Certificate.
To gain a Bronze Reading Certificate, you need
- Read independently the following:
– A school journal article
– An extended magazine or newspaper article
– A short story
– A 100-pages (minimum) chapter book
- Junior Bronze Reading Challenge Response for each which explains:
– What you liked/disliked in the text, with one example from the text.
– What you learnt from the text, with one example from the text.
To gain a Silver Reading Certificate, you need to:
- Read independently each of the following:
– An autobiography/biography
– A book by a New Zealand author
– A novel by an Australian or American or Canadian or British author
– A short story or two poems
- Junior Silver Reading Challenge Response words for each reading which explains:
– What you particularly liked or disliked about the book and why
– What you learned from the book
To gain a Gold Reading certificate, you need to:
- Read independently each of the following:
– A book or three short stories by a Maori author
– Two novels
– A book or poem written in the nineteenth century
– Two poems written by a New Zealand poet
– A novel about another culture
– An autobiography or a biography
- Junior Gold Reading Challenge Response of more than 200 words which explains:
– What you particularly liked or disliked about the book and why
– What you learned from the book with explanations of how you learned these things
Challenge yourself to read a range this year!
