Filippo now loves reading, and I know this is because of Book Club Bunch. Thank you!Maria Clara, Mother
Book Club Bunch2019-06-20T12:57:26+01:00Filippo now loves reading, and I know this is because of Book Club Bunch. Thank you!Maria Clara, Mother
https://bookclubbunch.com/testimonials/title-for-my-reference-only/You are the answer to a mother's prayer!Lorena, Santiago's mother
Book Club Bunch2021-02-09T14:03:08+00:00You are the answer to a mother's prayer!Lorena, Santiago's mother
https://bookclubbunch.com/testimonials/you-are-the-answer-to-a-mothers-prayer/It's the best club I've ever done in my life!Oscar, 9
Book Club Bunch2021-02-09T09:26:26+00:00It's the best club I've ever done in my life!Oscar, 9
https://bookclubbunch.com/testimonials/oscars-testimonial/Not only did Oscar adore the club, it really helped him prepare for his entrance exams. He got to grips with language and character and really started to love reading. Thank you!Sophie, Oscar's mother
Book Club Bunch2021-02-08T15:51:45+00:00Not only did Oscar adore the club, it really helped him prepare for his entrance exams. He got to grips with language and character and really started to love reading. Thank you!Sophie, Oscar's mother
https://bookclubbunch.com/testimonials/1800/Some children's Reading Assessment results have sky-rocketed. I believe book club is having notable impact on their retrieval and inference skillsHeather, Vice Principal
Book Club Bunch2019-01-24T12:28:13+00:00Some children's Reading Assessment results have sky-rocketed. I believe book club is having notable impact on their retrieval and inference skillsHeather, Vice Principal
https://bookclubbunch.com/testimonials/my-extra-testimonial/The session was amazing and the children were gripped. Everyone on the committee wants a book club for their own kids.Victoria, School Foundation Chair
Book Club Bunch2018-02-18T10:06:43+00:00The session was amazing and the children were gripped. Everyone on the committee wants a book club for their own kids.Victoria, School Foundation Chair
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Creating Readers and Critical Thinkers
Reading is a chore for many children, tacked onto the end of the school day when they’re tired. Reading aloud and stumbling over words, they barely get a sense of the story.
We all want our children to read. We know that reading is at the heart of good emotional intelligence and wellbeing, academic excellence, and better life chances. We know that reading for pleasure is its own reward. But by adding pressure around reading we often put our children off.
The Book Club Bunch Approach:
- At Book Club Bunch we read aloud to our book clubbers, picking a different book for each age group every term.
- We choose delectable books and we infuse life and breath into them. We choose literary texts, contemporary books, funny, serious and moving texts.
- For this job of bringing books to life, and unpacking their meaning, we employ professional actors who are also English scholars. They put on accents, exaggerate the funny bits, dramatize the moments of suspense, and nuance the meaning of trickier parts and new vocabulary.
- Between readings they lead the children in discussions. For younger readers, or children going at a slower pace, these discussions are around comprehension, inference and prediction. For older children, or those who are ready for more, we discuss rhetorical devices, the historical and political backdrop and wider-world relevance.
- By giving our children the very best experience of books and a place to decompress and explore, they become motivated, independent readers who love books; they become better at English; and they become skilled critical thinkers, confidently holding views and opinions of their own.
“The single most important activity…for eventual success in reading is reading aloud to children.”
Jim Trelease, The Read-Aloud Handbook