Structured Literacy- Reading

This year, 34 enthusiastic students from St Joseph’s enrolled in the Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge. The completion date is not until Friday, 15th September; however, 11 students have already completed the challenge. Congratulations to the following students who finished the challenge early:

Holly, Frankie, Evelyn, Matilda C, George, Anne, Louis, Chloe, Jack and Lucia. 

On the Challenge website, students are encouraged to write a review about the books they have read. Here are a few.

Holly Prep

Daywalt, Drew. The day the crayons quit

★★★★★

This is a really fun book! I like how Duncan uses all the colours in a creative way. It’s good that the crayons can show their feelings in their letters.

Dahl, Roald The BFG 

★★★★★

I like how the BFG thinks of so many clever things and how Sophie always has good ideas too. The BFG is really funny. I liked it when he yells “LIAR!” That part made me laugh so much. It was exciting when they made a plan to stop the mean giants!

George  Prep

Keller, Laurie   Arnie the doughnut 

★★★★★

Loved this fun book! 

Lucia Year 2

Meadows, Daisy Penny the pony fairy

★★★★★

I was really interested in the bracelet that Rachel and Kirsty was given by the fairy king! There was a bunny, a pony and a guinea pig and more on the bracelet!

Evelyn  Year 4

Andelfinger, Nicole. Choosing sides

★★★★★

It was interesting because now Elizabeth and Jessica don't really talk to each other that often, because Jessica is in the unicorn club, and they get into a lot of fights. They eventually solve all the problems by forgiving each other.

Evelyn Year 4

Johnson, Varian. Twins

★★★★★

It was a really good book, but Maureen and Francine did get in a lot of fights, especially when they found out that they were both running for class president but in the end, Maureen did win. It was a very close score, but most importantly, they always figured out the fight and are best friends again FOREVER!

Rafaela  Year 2

Lear, Edward The Quangle Wangle's hat 

★★★★★

It was epic and I loved reading it. 5

Coco  Year 4

Kirby, Katie.  The extremely embarrassing life of Lottie Brooks 

★★★★★

It was really good. I'm now reading more Lottie books. 

Anne  Prep

Martin, Ann M.  Dawn and the impossible three

★★★★

What I liked about this book is that there were a lot of different characters and that there was a lot of dialogue.

Amanda Jackson

Structured Literacy Leader