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Thank you to our wonderful supporters for sharing stories with Reading Recovery children and their friends during our month of celebrating reading.
Alan Durant reads his book, Quill Soup.
Noko the porcupine is very hungry. On arriving at a village, he asks the other animals for some food and shelter. But, despite their full bellies, all the animals say they have nothing to spare. Never mind: he'll just have to make do and cook a pot of soup from the quills off his back - a soup so tasty even the king likes it. Listen here
Elaine C Smith is a Scottish actress and comedian. She translated the story of The Gruffalo into the Glasgow dialect. Listen to her reading her story here.
Elaine watched some Reading Recovery lessons and said:
I was absolutely astounded to see the progression of the children in the Reading Recovery programme. As they sat reading to me, sounding like any other 5 or 6 year old reading, I couldn’t believe that only months before these children had been classed as "non readers”. Reading Recovery is a vital tool to help address the inequalities that a lack of literacy, and particularly reading, are to too many children and their families.
Carole Smillie, Scottish actress and presenter has chosen to share Nessie’s Selfie, written by Breea Keenan and illustrated by David Nichol. This is a lovely story about friendship. Listen to the story here
Maria Cairnie from Starmusa shares her story, The Marveloso Minibeast Maloo. Who doesn’t love a story of two caterpillars falling madly in love? There are lots of ways to share a story … Listen to the unusual way that Maria shares her story here
Lizzie Finnegan, picture book writer and teacher reads the story she wrote about ‘Button’s Big Adventure’. Listen to the story here
Maria Cairnie from Starmusa reads her story about her own ‘wee superhero dog’. Listen here to Blitzy Boy on Cattle Show Day.
