LIBRARY NEWS

Teacher: Mrs Catherine McKenna

Email: cmckenna@stidrouin.catholic.edu.au

A few tips/reminders with Library Books

Library books a great opportunity for your child to read and listen to stories or learn about a topic. It’s a book that is self-selected by your child because they are interested in the title or front cover.

The book your child chooses from the library is not a reader like the ‘take- home’ book. It’s an opportunity to share and connect with your child over a book they have chosen.

If you read aloud with enthusiasm and passion, your child will pick up on the story and unpack the picture book themselves through the pictures and text. They will begin to deeply absorb story and start to understand story when you read a book over and over again.

If your child can read independently, it’s still an opportunity to see what they are interested in reading and to share the love of the story. Model expression and pacing and have fun with it- try different voices and accents.

If you have been subject to reading books that you dislike because there are so many books in the series and your child keeps borrowing them, just remember that it’s usually a phase and they will find a new series to love!!

During borrowing time in library, I encourage reading widely and choosing an age appropriate book. If a child doesn’t know what to choose, I always recommend a book to them, but in the end, it’s always their choice.   

“There is massive evidence that self-selected reading, or reading what you want to read, is responsible for most of our literacy development. Readers have better reading ability, know more vocabulary, write better, spell better, and have better control of complex grammatical constructions. In fact, it is impossible to develop high levels of literacy without being a dedicated reader, and dedicated readers rarely have serious problems in reading and writing.”
― Krashen Stephen D.

Orders close Friday 25th March for free delivery back to school. 

You also have the home delivery option with an addition fee of $7.50