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Reading for Life is back with a completely new collection of books and workshops. Over 1800 jubilant kids embarked on the reading adventure in 2020 and 2021 from cities across India. Especially curated for 7 to 14-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 and book review writing tasks will support them in enhancing their writing and inferring skills along with boosting their creativity as well as critical thinking.  

Programme objectives

  • 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.

How does the programme work?

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.

Workshops for 7 - 10 years - July 2022 batch

Workshop Schedule

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.

23 July, Saturday

5:30pm to 6:30pm
Three wishes:
In this workshop, children will:
• use clues to predict the story
• critically think of predictions in the story
• express their ideas in groups

30 July, Saturday

5:30pm to 6:30pm

Please check the downloads section for complete details.

Workshops for 11 - 14 years - July 2022 batch

Workshop Schedule

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.

23 July, Saturday

3:30pm to 5:00pm
Three square reflection:
In this workshop, children will:
• understand a story in detail
• infer the underlying meaning of ideas in the story
• put the meaning in a personalised context
• use convincing arguments and language to reflect on their understanding in the story.

30 July, Saturday

3:30pm to 5:00pm

Please check the downloads section for complete details.

About the collection

The digital collection provides a virtual tidal wave of brilliantly written titles on different genres a child could wish for. 

A special age-wise list has been curated by the British Council for the Reading for Life programme. The collection will be available to registered participants on https://library.britishcouncil.org or via an app on any digital device. Participants will receive a step guide once they register.

Programme fee

  • Registration Fee: INR 1,200/- per participant.

To register, click on the registration tab available on top of this page.

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