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Our teachers were asked to name the significant narrative title that figured on the landscape of their memory. This may have changed the way they perceived the world; it may have been simply a turning point marker in their growth; it may have been associated with a special person. We only asked that they feel an emotional investment in their choice .We took the first paragraphs of this work ,collated them and circulated the list to students to read aloud during their Drop Everything And Read period on September 3. Students were given an initial, a gender and a Key Learning Area for the teacher and then asked to guess which title was the favourite of which teacher. For the rest of the day many students were asking each other their choices and some expressed a keen desire to try again the next day! All readers are stakeholders in this enterprise and it has only begun the journey to shared cultural inspirations.

The Junior School at Maranatha Christian College enjoyed many activities during the Literacy and Numeracy week. On Monday all classes from year 1 to year 5 participated in the coin toss activity – it was great fun and enjoyed by all. This activity inspired some classes to take the activity further and trial some other ‘chance’ activities. On Tuesday we had a Literacy Dress-up day. Students were encouraged to dress-up as their favourite story book character. Children could bring their book to school and in the afternoon we had many parents and grandparents turn up to read the stories with the children. It was a beautiful sunny day and most groups sat outside to share their stories. We have a Literacy and Numeracy display board at the local shopping centre, showcasing all the wonderful literacy work the students have completed during the past week.

A year seven group interviewed teachers about their favourite book, past and present. Students brainstormed as a class questions to ask teachers. They wrote to each teacher. Then they interviewed the teacher and recorded the interview. Peer evaluation of their interview. Then they used editing skills when typing up their report on the computer. They recorded their interviews as a podcast.

Best comment of class "This is sooooo much better than schoolwork, Miss!"

Another class, used Moodle, to write about their favourite book as a forum. They also made posters of their favourite book.

At NCS we love reading because we love experiencing all the stories that abound in God's world! For NRD we compiled class books and created PowerPoints answering the question "What are you reading today?", wrote letters to younger buddies to recommend books, videoed and photographed each other sharing our reading, and enjoyed wonderful special book-and-reading activities in mixed-up-class groups that our teachers prepared for us. We might include reports of these in our end-of-term magazine. Meanwhile, you can see how much we love reading by checking out our Book Week activities in our latest Nepean News Magazine - click the NEWS button on our website.

At Mole Creek Primary School on National Reading Day:

Grade 5/6 have read as a class two of Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes. We then completed a review/response of the rhyme of our choice. We intend to display these reviews in our school to show others our thoughts of these stories.

Grade 3/4 read stories about dogs, they include Queenie, Little White Dogs Can't Jump and Pocket Dogs, developed a word bank and used these to create poems about dogs. Some of these will be shared in assembly

Prep/1/2 read Possum Magic and Pearl Barley and Charlie Parsley and completed oral book reviews on these texts.

For National Reading Day we had a range of student displays from 7-10 which consisted of Showbags (to sell books!), class displays of work based around books they have been reading and a range of advertising posters targetting great reads. We also ran competitions for posters, poetry and short stories - the best to make an anthology for reading in classes. A group of fanatic readers (B.R.A.G. - Blacktown Readers Advisory Group) have written reviews which are displayed around the school, on the website and at Westpoint Shopping Centre at Blacktown. Girls also heard authors speak (Debbie Oswald author and Clare Atkins scriptwriter on Home and Away and All Saints) as well as girls from their own classes. Parents were also invited to attend. We organised a book fair to sell new and inviting titles to the girls as well.

A wikispace was developed for students, staff and families to share their favourite books.