Holiday Reading challenge: Going on Adventure
By Keira and Zaniel
“Reading gives us some place to go when we have to stay where we are” – Mason Cooley
Not everybody had a chance to go traveling over the holiday, but we did go on an adventure- in books! During the holiday we were challenged to read books from the adventure genre and we could express our creativity by making reading responses based on the book we read. These responses can come in many different forms, such as maps of the setting, storyboards, drawings and character profiles. The purpose of this activity is to keep us, students, active in reading during the holidays.
We enjoyed reading over the holiday and we also enjoyed crafting, making, and assembling the reading responses. By doing this challenge, it’s wonderful to see how much we can remember or imagine just by reading a book.
Keira read many books but she chose to make a storyboard based on the book ‘The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne. Meanwhile, Zaniel chose to read the book ‘Call of the Wild’ by Jack London and created a 3D map of the setting in the book.
By completing this challenge, we learnt that reading allows us to be more creative and to think outside the box. If we put effort and passion into our work, we can achieve excellence.
Below is one example of a reading response that Ava 8Y produced.
