As part of Book Week Scotland, we attended a workshop from a Scottish author, Paul Murdoch, at Giffnock Library this week. The workshop focused on Paul and how he got into his career of being an author. He also showed us some of the techniques and strategies he used to come up with new, interesting and magical characters! Some of the news ones that we created were a ‘BODZA’ and a ‘CARXI’!
On Friday, we also visited the nursery to do some story sessions with children there. We thought carefully about our book choice during our time in the school library, and even practised reading aloud with our partners, thinking about reading with expression and bringing the story to life through actions and rhyme!
Rebekah: ‘I enjoyed reading to the nursery because they really enjoyed the book, and the children were really funny!’
Imogen: ‘I actually found reading to nursery quite hard, but when we got a group of children they really seemed to enjoy it.’
Rafay: ‘I found it really fun because they kept on giggling at the actions that me and Eden did for the book!’
Ryan: ‘It was really fun but I struggled to keep the little ones focused on the reading!’
