Reading for Life - Igniting Imagination

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Want to improve your child’s reading skills? 

Reading for Life is back with updated collection of books and exciting workshops. Over 2000 jubilant kids embarked on the reading adventure in 2020 and 2021 from cities across India. Especially curated for 5 to 12-years old, the programme aims to take your child on a journey from ‘Learning to Read’ to ‘Reading to Learn’ and help them grow as an engaged reader. The three weeks online programme challenges children to read at least one book every week from our curated online collection of e-books, audiobooks and comics.

While the different format of books will help children to strengthen their reading and listening skills, our expert-curated workshops will support them in enhancing their creativity and  critical thinking skills.

The main objectives of this program are:

• Promote the love for reading among children.
• Help children grow as motivated, confident and engaged readers.
• Introduce children to a wide range of authors and literature.
• Encourage children to participate in group activities and help them develop their writing and speaking skills.
• Enhance their creativity, presentation and independent thinking skills.
• Provide children with a happy and memorable learning experience.

Workshop details: For each age group, there will be two set of workshops spread over two weekends of 1-1.5 hour each. 

Workshop 1	Workshop 2
Book review writing: Children will share their views about the story they’ve read and then decide if they would recommend it to the other readers. In this workshop, children will: develop the love for reading brainstorm their ideas in an organised manner share their opinion about the book enhance their vocabulary.	Spontaneous Speakers:   In this workshop, children will:  learn and practise research backed techniques that will help them speak with clarity and confidence  become confident speaker in public and also encourages them to speak up

Other details are outlined below:

How does the programme work?	About the collection
Children who join the programme: will have access to our online library reads at least ‘three books in three weeks’ to complete the challenge.  writes and submits a review after reading each book. participates in two specially designed workshops during the three -week programme. receives a Certificate of Achievement endorsed by the British Council.	The digital collection provides a virtual tidal wave of brilliantly written titles on different genres a child could wish for.   To get an overview of the children collection, please visit https://britishcouncil.overdrive.com/library/kids

For any query, please email us at  Indialibraries@britishcouncil.org.

Members - Register here for INR1200     

Non-members - Register here for INR 1200