Let’s Hook into Books, and celebrate Indigenous Literacy Day 2024.
Image: Two young people hold up books over their faces. Infront of them on the table another four books are laid out.
Children are watching, learning, and mirroring the actions of adults every day. Modelling behaviour for children has long-lasting effects, this is how children learn! You are an important person in the lives of many children – meaning that they are watching and learning from you every day. So, let’s put this opportunity to good use and model reading.
You can do simple everyday things to encourage children to engage with reading. Creating excitement around literacy can start by reading to them and with them, or with a fun activity like a trip to the library where they can select their own book.
Image: Two children sit outdoors, holding up books.
Be ‘caught reading’
To celebrate Hook into Books™ and Indigenous Literacy Day 2024, we want you to be ‘caught’ reading a book written or illustrated by an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander creator.
Reading books from First Nations authors helps us all to understand Australia's collective history and appreciate the cultural richness of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, some of the most ancient and original storytellers.
This year, Indigenous Literacy Day will be celebrating the theme, 'Be A Proud Voice for Country’. There is an amazing range of rich and diverse texts from First Nations Creators to get emersed in.
Image: A collage of children reading books.
How to get involved and #CatchAReader?
From Monday, 19 August to Wednesday, 4 September, we want you to model reading for our community in our photo-sharing competition.
To 'catch’ a reader, snap a photo of someone (or even yourself) reading a book from an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander creator! For little kids or kids in foster care, make sure the book covers their faces to protect them. You can also take a picture of your latest book or magazine or even a cute Kindle flat lay.
Your ‘reading catches’ can be celebrated and shared on Indigenous Literacy Day with the Life Without Barriers community by sending them to hookintobooks@lwb.org.au. There’s even a book pack prize to be won for the most creative ‘catch’!
How many ‘catches’ can you make?
