- March 1st, 2012
World Book Day 2012
- nickmorgan
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World Book Day is an opportunity for global citizenship education, as pupils and the public around the world join in a shared celebration of the joy of reading books and writing stories. Teachers can introduce learners to the work of foreign authors, and explore the different perspectives offered by ‘voices’ from another country or background. Readers can also be encouraged to reflect on the similarities and differences between countries and why these exist.
There will be author events, book festivals, readings from selected works, activities in public libraries, and much more. For example, BBC Scotland and the Scottish Book Trust collaborated to run online Author sessions with children’s author Francesca Simon (an American), webcast through the Glow network to schools.
A BBC news story, ‘Boys now reading as well as girls, study suggests’, reports on new research which indicates that the reading ability of boys and girls has become much closer over the last few years. Literacy education and reading programmes have contributed to this trend.
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