The Nowhere Emporium Guided Reading Challenge- 13 weeks of chunked reading and tasks

This resource is designed to promote reading for pleasure and develop literacy skills across a year group cohort through a series of guided reading challenge tasks.

The resource can be used as a compulsory set of tasks in lessons, or as an optional ‘challenge’ to be completed at home or in dedicated school time (perhaps a form time or reading/literacy timetabled slot). In my school it was set up as a optional challenge for the whole of year 7, promoted to both parents and pupils using social media, the school website and in-school message services.

The resource includes:

• chunked reading of the novel ‘The Nowhere Emporium’ (typically 3 chapters per week, equating to roughly 30-50 minutes reading dependent on speed and ability)
  -13 weeks of ‘challenge tasks’, with an option of 4 each week (academic, creative, active and mindful).
• Each set of tasks is tied thematically to a section of reading to generate intrigue and interest in the novel.
• Challenges are presented as both a PDF and in Publisher format for editing if required, but are ready to be easily copied and pasted into whatever form of communication you choose
• promotional material for both students and parents (with a parent FAQ)

In our school we used Google Classroom and Google Forms to maintain interest in the challenge. We gave anyone who signed up a free copy of the novel (interest was registered via Google Forms). The documents refer to this but can be edited if required. If you would like more guidance on using Google Forms or Google Classroom there are plenty of videos on Youtube to help.