How can you fill in all of those out of school hours when social and sporting activities are postponed? One answer is to read for pleasure. There’s a vast amount of peer-reviewed research that shows that reading for pleasure on a regular basis improves school results, social life, relationships and life skills, and that reading rates drop as students get older, particularly for boys.
Some suggestions to encourage reading and locate great reading material:
- Start with interests and passions — find books related to reader interests or passions
- Recommendations — share reading recommendations with family members and friends
- Access a variety of material — fiction, non-fiction, magazines, graphic novels or comics, newspapers, ebooks and audiobooks all provide great reading opportunities.
Students can login to MLMC reading guides and virtual reading rooms HERE to find reading recommendations, promotional material and participate in reading discussion forums.
Students can login to Overdrive or have a look at the MLMC library catalogue to search and borrow a range of digital ebooks and audiobooks that can be read at home.
MLMC has also partnered with Eastern Regional Libraries (ERL) to support student public library membership, which provides access to ERL digital and print collections.
