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Everyone’s a winner the Six Book Challenge in colleges
Genevieve Clarke, The Reading Agency
Kathryn Wallis, Peterborough Regional College
The Reading Agency
• Independent national charity
• Mission to give everyone an equal chance in life by helping them to become enthusiastic and confident readers. Because everything changes when we read
• Formal partnership with public libraries
• Work with broadcasters, publishers, government at national level
• Work with libraries, schools, colleges, prisons, workplaces at local level
“Books have no place in this course; it’s about learning to read!” Basic skills tutor
“The students didn’t think they could learn through reading. It’s been a revelation to them
that they could enjoy a book and still be learning.”
Skills for Life tutor, Tameside
Learners engaged in (more) text
Learners enjoy
reading
Learners practise
skills
Learners improve
skills
Learners want to
read more
Why?
• 5.1 million adults of working age are STILL at the level expected of an 11 year old (moved from 16% to 15% since 2003)
• 14.8 million adults would not achieve a GCSE at A* - C grade (improved from 39.5% to 28.5% since 2003)
2011 Skills for Life Survey: Headline findings
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, Dec 2011
• 16-24 year olds in England are rated 22nd our of 24 countries for literacy.
• They have slightly worse skills than people aged between 55 and 65.
Survey of Adult Skills (PIACC), OECD, Oct 2013
Policy context
• Colleges in their Communities – May 2012 • Emphasis on partnership but where are libraries?
• Move from Skills for Life to Functional Skills
• Rise in participation age
• 13/14 – to 17; 14/15 – to 18
• Focus on GCSE
• Emphasis on English and Maths
• Imperative to achieve Grade C
Support from The Reading Agency
• Advocacy for libraries’ role
• Links with national initiatives eg Quick Reads, BBC campaigns
• R & D – reading for pleasure at Entry Level, potential for using digital games
• Reading Groups for Everyone, Mood-Boosting Books
• World Book Night
• Practical schemes – Six Book Challenge
What is the Six Book Challenge?
• An invitation to read six books or other ‘materials’ and record reading in a diary
• Library support for choosing what to read
• Creative activity such as reading groups
• Incentives to increase retention
• Certificate for those who read six books (participation certificate for less)
• A proven way of engaging and motivating adults to improve their literacy skills
Our vision
• That people’s attitudes to reading, both in print and online, are changed by taking part in the Six Book Challenge, whether or not they are already readers.
• Priority audience – those who struggle with the written word
• Also powerful for lapsed readers
Six Book Challenge 2008-13
0
2000
4000
6000
8000
10000
12000
14000
16000
2008total7000
2009total9000
2010total
13,500
2011total
18,000
2012total
23,500
2013total
35,000
Public libraries
Colleges
Prisons
Workplaces
2013 headline results
• 35,000 people registered
• 13,000 through public libraries and partners
• 13,500 in over 100 FE and sixth form colleges
• 7000 in prisons
• 1500 in workplaces
• 90% of survey respondents said they felt more confident about reading
• 65 organisations achieved more than 50 completers – 23 colleges
Colleges
Completers at Westminster Kingsway College
Kathryn Wallis Learning Resources Co-ordinator,
Library+
Peterborough Regional College/
University Centre Peterborough
The Six Book Challenge
Who are we?
• Peterborough Regional College
• Library+
How did it start?
• What other colleges do
• Thinking big or thinking small?
What did we want?
Curriculum liaison, making links:
• A “friendly face”
• Marketing “sideways”
What did we get?
The negatives
• Organised chaos!
• Disappointing completions
The positives • A great time
• Real heroes
• A learning experience...
...and this year...
Don’t forget!
Everyone who has completed the
Six Book Challenge is invited to a
celebration on
Wednesday 11th June at 12pm @
University Centre Peterborough
room 015.
It is essential you reply to reserve
your place
Please reply to Library+ in person,
by phone (01733 762137)
or e-mail
by 21st May at the latest!
...and this year...
Our Six Book Challenge Celebration
...and this year...
Added value:
• Very good relations with sectors involved
• Fiction reflects student requests
• OFSTED recognition
Top tips...
• Get teaching staff ‘on board’
• Integrate into English courses
• Treat challengers as VIPs – encourage them
• Make it fit your needs
• Sell to staff as relaxation
• Hang on to the diaries
• Have a party!
• Get stuck in!
Kathryn Wallis Learning Resources Co-ordinator,
Library+
Peterborough Regional College/
University Centre Peterborough
The Six Book Challenge
Six Book Challenge 2014
Six Book Challenge 2014
• Support from Martina Cole as Ambassador
• Packs to promote the Challenge and run it with 50 people January – June 2014
• Discounts for multiple packs and reading diaries
• Prize draws deadline Monday 30 June
• Data return deadline Monday 7 July
• Gold/silver/bronze award scheme – 25 learning providers in 2013
NEW Six Book Challenge website
• www.readingagency.org.uk/sixbookchallenge
• Sponsored by mobile company Three
• Adding a digital dimension to the Six Book Challenge
• Participants can create a an online profile, log, rate and review what they read
• Search for next read in our unique Find a read database – nearly 700 items (pre-Entry – Level 2)
• Printed books PLUS ebooks, audio, large print, newspapers, digital games
Selection criteria
• Readability level – SMOG formula
• Length, design, layout, type size
• ‘Proper’ book – no comprehension exercises, no ‘easy reader’ label
• Hook to engage reader/interest factor
• Straightforward structure, short chapters and paragraphs, simple sentences
• Beginner readers NOT beginner thinkers!
Emergent reader publishers
• www.quickreads.org.uk
• www.accentpress.co.uk
• www.newisland.ie
• www.barringtonstoke.co.uk
• www.ransom.co.uk
• www.axiseducation.co.uk
• www.newleafbooks.org.uk
• www.gatehousebooks.org.uk
• www.readwellroad.com
Tips for colleges
• Partnership across the college
• Profile for the library
• Promotion
• Prizes
• Persistence
• Party!
Six Book Challenge 2013-17
0
5,000
10,000
15,000
20,000
25,000
2013 total35,000
2014 total37,750
2015 total40,000
2016 total45,000
2017 total50,000
Public libraries
Colleges
Prisons
Workplaces
“When improving students’ life chances by gaining a GCSE in English is seen as the door that opens up opportunities for young people and adults, it is so important to establish reading competency but also reading fluency and enjoyment. The Six Book Challenge is helping to establish reading as a pleasurable activity and demonstrates its impacts on students skills development.”
Joy Mercer, Policy Director (Education), Association of Colleges
New developments and questions
• New design ‘Read anything. Read anywhere.’
• Ambassadors?
• Timescale change to cater for colleges • 19 June – announced new materials
• 14 July – order deadline for September delivery
• 7 October – Early Bird deadline
• Fully integrated website
• What works best for colleges?
Contact
• www.readingagency.org.uk/sixbookchallenge
• Genevieve Clarke [email protected] 0871 750 2104 / 07500 010 620
