Wednesday evening was Awards Night at Nottingham Writers' Club. We were short of quite a few regulars as a few were away on holiday and others were ill. In fact a few were suffering tonight with the coughing and croaky voice problem...
But all who turned up enjoyed the evening.
I'm just waiting for a few photos to be e-mailed to me tomorrow, so you'll see my fun headgear and also hear some good news.
But more of that tomorrow...:-)
Carol Bevitt's blog on her writing and inspirations, along with occasional literature related news...
Wednesday, 7 December 2011
Monday, 5 December 2011
National Literacy Trust...
The National Literacy Trust has just released a report that reveals that the number of children who do not own a book of their own has risen.
We all know how important reading is. It plays an important part in language development in young children and in turn this has a knock-on effect with handwriting, and goes on into school and eventually exams.
A child who isn't assisted and encouraged to read will always be working at a disadvantage, compared to their reading peers.
I wasn't able to read properly until I was 7 years old.
I had a slight speech problem and was growing up in a time when there was not as wide a range of books available to young children (unlike now), and reading was a bedtime activity when stories about Noddy, Cinderella and Peter Pan were read to me.
When I was small, the school reading method were the Janet and John books, and I can still remember the wonder I felt when words finally made sense to me and I understood how much a simple sentence could mean- and I could read it.
It also meant I could go and borrow the books in the children's section at my local library, which so many of my classmates had been doing for some time...
I connected to the bigger world by being able to read, and that was the moment when I decided I wanted to be a writer.
Sadly even now there are still adults with literacy difficulties. Hopefully one day that aspect of life will eventually become a thing of the past...
If you are interested in donating to the NLT's Gift of Reading this Christmas, then have a look here.
The writers of the future will need readers; and this scheme will help the readers of the future to be able to enjoy those books.
Perhaps there will even be potential writers among them...
We all know how important reading is. It plays an important part in language development in young children and in turn this has a knock-on effect with handwriting, and goes on into school and eventually exams.
A child who isn't assisted and encouraged to read will always be working at a disadvantage, compared to their reading peers.
I wasn't able to read properly until I was 7 years old.
I had a slight speech problem and was growing up in a time when there was not as wide a range of books available to young children (unlike now), and reading was a bedtime activity when stories about Noddy, Cinderella and Peter Pan were read to me.
When I was small, the school reading method were the Janet and John books, and I can still remember the wonder I felt when words finally made sense to me and I understood how much a simple sentence could mean- and I could read it.
It also meant I could go and borrow the books in the children's section at my local library, which so many of my classmates had been doing for some time...
I connected to the bigger world by being able to read, and that was the moment when I decided I wanted to be a writer.
Sadly even now there are still adults with literacy difficulties. Hopefully one day that aspect of life will eventually become a thing of the past...
If you are interested in donating to the NLT's Gift of Reading this Christmas, then have a look here.
The writers of the future will need readers; and this scheme will help the readers of the future to be able to enjoy those books.
Perhaps there will even be potential writers among them...
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