The pre-school and 1st cycle of Basic Education school libraries in the municipality of Portimão will celebrate, from the 5th to the 13th of March, the Week of Reading under the motto “Free the reader in you”.
The 12th edition of this initiative will feature the participation of writers Manuela Ribeiro and Sofia Furtado.
Promoted by the Manuel Teixeira Gomes Municipal Library in collaboration with school libraries, the Reading Week is marked at national level within the scope of the National Reading Plan.
In this edition, the intention is «to promote the study and dissemination of the work of a writer, selected at the beginning of each school year, involving students, teachers, the school library and the educational community», says the Portimão Town Council.
The study of the author's work is integrated into school and library activities for this school year, through individual or collective reading, dramatizations, various competitions, book fairs. The project culminates in a meeting with the writer, who visits each school library.
Manuela Ribeiro was born in Caldas da Rainha, has a degree in German Studies and was also a Dutch government scholarship holder, a translator and is currently an English and Portuguese teacher, as well as being the coordinator of the Portuguese Non-Mother Language Teaching project.
Manuela Ribeiro is the author of several books for adolescence and youth, with emphasis on the collection “Aventuras de Miguel e Ricardo”, already with ten published titles and some republished.
More recently, he also began writing for children of pre-school age with remarkable success, having published “A Plantinha dos Minhas Pais” and “Castanho e Branco”. His latest children's book is called “Uma Letra, Mil Palavras”.
Manuela Ribeiro will thus promote several sessions to promote reading with students. According to the writer, "there is nothing more pleasant than contact with readers in schools or libraries."
Sofia Furtado was born in Loulé in 1978 and lives in Lagos. He graduated in Special Education and Rehabilitation and began working closely with children and the elderly. The awakening to children's literature started with the growth of the son, who at a certain point did not ask his mother to tell stories, but rather to invent them. The writer goes to the Pre-School School Libraries to present the work “Mel, a special bee”.
The program for the 12th Week of Reading in School Libraries of the 1st cycle of Portimão will include EB1 da Pedra Mourinha and EB 1Chão das Donas on 5 March, EB1 Coca Maravilhas and EB 1 Vendas on 6 March and EB 1 Major David Neto on March 7th.
On the 8th, the writer will be at four schools, namely EB1 de Alvor, EB 1 Montes de Alvor, EB1 Mexilhoeira Grande and EB1 da Figueira.
On the 9th, he will tell many stories at EB 1 of the Pontal School Center.
With regard to pre-school libraries, writer Sofia Furtado will dynamize some sessions with the presentation of the book “Mel, a special bee”, and the Coca Maravilhas School Library and the Library are already scheduled for March 9th. School of Sales.
As for the 12th, the writer will celebrate the reading at the EB1 School Library in Alvor and at the Montes de Alvor Kindergarten.
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