Read, Write and Win with Jujube
The Jujube book store hopes to make reading and writing among children more interesting.{{more}} The bookstore will, therefore, conduct a Literacy Campaign which will be launched this Saturday, April 30, 2011.
The launch will take place at the Demerara Car Park at Lower Middle Street, beginning at 9:30 a.m.
The campaign will focus on four aspects of reading and writing which include âReading Circlesâ, âReading Countsâ, âRead, Write, Winâ and the KID$ense club.
The Reading Circles, which began last year October, will see three age groups of pre-schoolers, and children between ages 5 to 7 and 8 to 10 engage in various activities for one hour each.
Children between the ages of 5 to 16 will be rewarded in the âReading Countsâ programme. Children will register for the programme and accumulate points for their Jujube purchases. Prizes will be awarded to the participants upon their attainment of milestones. The count will be reset every quarter.
In the âRead, Write, Winâ initiative, winners of the programme will have their work published in the newspaper and on radio. This programme will target children between 8 and 16 years old and is aimed at encouraging creative writing.
Each month a book of the month will be selected for each of the two age groups of 8 to 12 years and 13 to 16 years. The books will be chosen based on a theme. Participants will be required to submit a creative writing essay on the theme or a review of the book. A winner will be chosen and will be awarded a book.
The KID$ense programme will seek to teach children the principles of budgeting, how to spend and invest: it will target schools. The programme will take the form of a monthly youth radio programme, presenting a financial tip of the month and an illustrative story.
The objectives of the literacy campaign are to promote essential skills in all aspects of literacy, to encourage a love for reading for the purpose of gaining knowledge as well as for pleasure, and to promote financial literacy and management skills among school children.
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