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Chat to Nick Gibb about encouraging children to read more books – Thursday 9 Feb at 11am-noon

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    Posted by: TES_Community 08/02/2012 at 16:06
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    Minister of State for Schools Nick Gibb will be online at TES towers from 11am-Noon Thursday (February 9) to chat about how we can encourage children and young people of all ages to read more books.

    Nick gave a speech on this very subject on Tuesday and the DfE has launched a National Schools Reading Competition for 7-12 year olds.

    If you've got a question for Nick, or a comment you'd like to make on how schools can help promote reading, email us in advance of the chat to dfechat@tes.co.uk.

    You can also pose questions on the day and watch the chat live. You can return to the chat page to read a replay of the session anytime.
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    Posted by: Eureka! 08/02/2012 at 16:35
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    TES Web Staff:
    the DfE has launched a National Schools Reading Competition for 7-12 year olds.

    That's all you need to know about these hyper macho politicians. Unbelievable.
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    Posted by: Middlemarch 08/02/2012 at 16:54
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     I believe this National Schools Reading Competition simply encourages children to read as many books as possible.

    Similar competitions that have been run regularly - albeit on a smaller scale, especially in US local districts - have tended to fall flat because increasing numbers of children merely claim to have read lists of titles in order to win the prize.

    I'd like to know how Mr Gibb will ensure this does not happen to his nice competition.

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    Posted by: cuteinpuce 08/02/2012 at 17:54
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    "The Government is committed to driving up reading standards of young people because:

    One in 10 boys leaves primary school with the reading age of a seven-year-old.
    15 per cent of seven-year-olds do not reach the expected level (level 2) in reading.
    16 per cent of 11-year-olds do not achieve the expected level (level 4) in reading."

    Once the exciting reading competition has transformed our youngsters into voracious readers, perhaps he can organise an exciting maths competition to transform politicians' total ignorance of statistical meaning.

     
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    Posted by: Chloekitten 08/02/2012 at 18:12
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    I know how to make children read more books.

    I HONESTLY think this is 100% guaranteed to work.

    Their parents read to them every bed time for 10 - 15 minutes.

    Their parents take them to a local library as soon as they can toddle, and get them a library card. The child uses the card to choose books once every few weeks.

    This has worked with every child I know. They love stories and eventually start reading themselves.

    Im wondering what the problem is?

    Oh hang on, he wants people who ARENT the parents, people who have statistically been shown to have NO MORE than 10% influence on a childs life, to override the influence of people who ARE the childs parents, people who have statistically been shown to have 90% influence on a childs life.

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    Posted by: hollyleaf 08/02/2012 at 20:26
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     Dear Mr Gibb, 

    Our school has very few books. They burned the old texts and told us to make up the material from the internet.  Our school has no magazines ...we were told to use the internet instead.  The internet requires computers that work.  

     Our school has very few computers that can access the internet and the projecters have mostly burned up.  They say there is no money for new ones.  The printers are often down and now we have to code our work because management says we are making too many copies,

     

    Please, could you return the textbooks?  And the workbooks?   

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    Posted by: lurk_much 08/02/2012 at 21:48
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    Dear Gibby.

    Reading is so last century. Watching is the new big thing. How about a total hours of TV competition? For the under fives.

    OR If you really cared you would restrict the amount of broadcast TV aimed at children to an hour a day instead of publicising sticking plaster initiatives for voter consumption.

     
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    Posted by: Eureka! 08/02/2012 at 21:59
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    lurk_much:
    If you really cared you would restrict the amount of broadcast TV aimed at children to an hour a day

    Do you really think that's a good policy?

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    Eureka!:

    lurk_much:
    If you really cared you would restrict the amount of broadcast TV aimed at children to an hour a day

    Do you really think that's a good policy?

    Can we cut out the gendered adverts too?
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    Posted by: Eureka! 08/02/2012 at 22:06
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    airy:
    ]Can we cut out the gendered adverts too?

    I think adverts should be counterbalanced by political and religious adverts. If you care enough you will stump up the money to promote a point of view.

    Money might appear to win at first, but the best ideas would win out eventually.

    Right??
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