Primary 5 were very lucky to receive a visit from Ailsa McInnes, South Ayrshire’s Children’s Services Librarian

Today’s visit was the first of three sessions that will promote reading for pleasure through a variety of games and activities, which all link into the First Minister’s Reading Challenge. 

Ailsa spoke to us about becoming members at Ayr Carnegie Library.  We discovered how exciting it could be to visit the library and borrow interesting books.  We learned that children’s fiction books all have red labels – these would be the best ones for us to read!  Books with blue stickers are suited to early readers and white are for young adults.

 

Ailsa showed us a selection of books by several authors including Michael Morpurgo, Janis Mackay, Sarah Lean and David Walliams.   It was fascinating to discover that some authors have different jobs during the day and write stories in their spare time.   We explored the many characters and interesting story lines  across the variety of books brought to our class. We learned that some books are printed on cream coloured paper with unjustified margins  (which make them easier to read), these are called dyslexic friendly books.

We were all allowed to borrow a  book to read before next Wednesday’s visit!  A huge thank you to Ailsa for coming into our class 

It was inspiring to hear about the books we can enjoy! Ben

Learning about all the books was phenomenal!  Very interesting!  Heather

One of the best classes I have visited in a long time.  What a lot of great comments!  Ailsa