Year 7 Carnegies Book Group
The focus for this week was ‘Letters in Charcoal’ by Colombian author Irene Vasco and Mexican illustrator, Juan Palomino. The aim of the book is to share the transformative power of being literate. The context for the story is a village where letters are everywhere; on newspaper, packaging but few people can read them. That is until the desire to find out the content of a series of letters received by her sister, inspires a young girl to learn to read.
The challenge set this week was to firstly think of a word that describes what reading means to you. Pupils then had to find and photograph all the letters needed to spell their word on book covers found in the library. They then used the app Procreate to collage them together to create their word.