The Norwegian Poetry Slam Championship brings various expressions together, live from stage, and this creates a spontaneous interaction between participants and the audience. Participants must present their own texts within a maximum of three minutes, and without props. Juries in Read More …
Category: Pupils
The Norvegian Youth Literature Award (Norway)
Uprisen – the Norwegian Youth Literature Award – was established in 2007, and is a collaboration between Foreningen !les, The Norwegian Festival of Literature and “The Cultural Rucksack” (“Den kulturelle skolesekken”, a national programme for art and culture). This is Read More …
The Reading Aloud Club (Germany)
If you enjoy reading and reading aloud to someone, love beautiful stories, enjoy dealing with children, would like to share this enthusiasm and pass it on, becoming a volunteer in the Reading-Aloud Club is the right thing for you. The Read More …
The Reading Forest – Leseskogen (Norway)
Leseskogen (The reading forest) is a read aloud campaign for pupils in the first and second grade, their parents and their teachers. The pupils use the campaign website leseskogen.no to meet various animals who read and recommend books. There are Read More …
The tXt Campaign (Norway)
tXt-aksjonen (the tXt Campaign) is the oldest and most extensive reading project for middle school students in Norway. The campaign was set up in 1997, and has become a central part of students experience with Norwegian and translated contemporary literature. Read More …
The Young Critic’s Award (Norway)
Ungdommens kritikerpris (the Young Critics’ Award) is a high school literary award, which was established in 2005. A jury of professional critics nominate eight novels for adults, and seven jury classes are chosen to read and discuss the books within Read More …
Time for Ten (Norway)
Tid for ti (Time for Ten) is a new project approaching pupils in the 7th grade. The project contains an anthology with excerpts from books written in Norwegian Nynorsk. The edition is 15 000 anthologies and will be sent to Read More …
Teachers’ Club (Germany)
The Teachers’ Club supports scholastic multipliers of reading promotion with up-to-date offers, always oriented on the interests and the worlds of pupils. Registered users receive free material on the reading promotion campaigns of Stiftung Lesen and its partners. In addition Read More …
Potential of e-readers in Germany
With the use of e-readers, reading becomes more appealing for children and teenagers. This is one of the major findings of a study conducted in 2011 by the German reading foundation Stiftung Lesen on the potential of e-readers in the Read More …
Annual literary competition for children (Czech Republic)
Every January the Growing with the Book campaign invites children to compete on an interesting book-related theme, often connected with main theme of the Book World Prague fair. Children are divided into three age groups and given the task of Read More …