Source: Cowra Guardian
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It’s easy to make a room of eighty young children quiet – if they’re read The Wrong Book as local students perform its story at Carinya preschool.
Kindergarteners from Mulyan Public School visited the centre's preschoolers Thursday to help them read Nick Bland's picture book joining in this week's National Simultaneous Storytime.
Wearing pirates hats, green horns and pink crowns, Mulyan Public students acted their parts in the book as teacher Beatrice Murray narrated it to children.
In The Wrong Book, young boy Nicholas Ickle tries to tell a story but is interrupted every time he starts by characters from other books.
He tries to convince them they are in the wrong story.
Carinya Early Childhood Centre’s Deidre Healy said children absorbed the book.
“They wanted it again and again. The response was just excellent,” she said after the reading.
As Ms Murray read, a smartboard behind her showed enlarged pages from the story to help children see its pictures.
Carinya planned later in the week to show preschoolers a video of the book being read both verbally and using sign language, teaching different ways to tell a story.
At Cowra Library on Wednesday morning Cowra preschoolers also joined the national literacy event with a reading of The Wrong Book.
National Simultaneous Storytime is part of Library and Information Week, aiming to show parents how to help their children learn to read.
