World Read Aloud Day

Today was International World Read Aloud Day. What is World Read Aloud Day? World Read Aloud Day is a celebration of children’s rights to read. We all had to dress up as our favourite book characters. Us three went as Draco Malfoy (Violette- From Harry Potter by J.K Rowling), Cassie (Enya- From The Fifth Wave by Rick Yancey) and Kate (Hattie- From Awakening by Natalie King).

We all had lots of fun dressing up- some people in our class went as Minions from Despicable Me! In the morning, we got to read stories to our buddies at Assembly! They all had put lots of effort into their costumes- there was an Elsa, a Monster High, a Cinderella- even a homemade Gruffalo! They were all super cute dressed up!

After the Assembly we had a special guest writer come to speak to Year 7 and 8- Kathleen’s mum and the author of Awakening, Natalie King! She taught us about how to develop a character and how to brainstorm properly when writing. We all loved having Natalie talk to us and she also gave us a signed copy of her book to our class!

 A Video We Watched

 What is your favourite book character? Tell us in the comments below!

 By Hattie, Enya and Violette

Graphic Novels

Today we started our reading inquiry on graphic novels. We started by looking through some graphic novels and we noticed that even though they sometimes can look quite similar they are actually all quite different. Some of the things we learned about graphic novels are:

• Some graphic novels have more pictures than words and vice-versa.
• Sometimes people who don’t enjoy reading prefer graphic novels to normal novels.
• Graphic novels, while they are similar to comic books, are actually more complex even though they follow the same format.
• Another difference is that graphic novels have stand-alone plots.    
• Graphic novels are made up of images, words, dialogue balloons, thought balloons, captions, panel and gutters, as well as the actual story.     

We are both looking forward to reading graphic novels in class, and we are sure everyone else is too!

Do you have any favourite graphic novels? We would love to hear from you.

By Kathleen and Caroline