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Try Another Medium

National Literacy and Numeracy Activity, 2005  

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A riotous time was had by all on 2 September with our National Literacy and Numeracy Activity: “Try Another Reading Medium”. The Centre was filled with boisterous primary kids with vision impairments who were treated to an all singing and dancing rendition of “Wombat Stew” written my Marcia K. Vaughan.

Ramona Mandy from HumanWare read a spirited rendition of the story and students acted out the story with hand puppets and other artifacts from the story.

This was a “simultaneous reading activity” involving thousands of school students all around Australia! I expect our group was the only one to be read to from the brailled book, though!

Students were also involved with making musical instruments using seeds and gum nuts and singing the song from the story, accompanied by the variously talented Visiting Teacher Lea Nagel on the guitar!!!

There was a plethora of alternative reading media to sample and the kids had a great time with:

One student took great delight in examining his eyes using Flipper and a large TV screen! Michael made a CD of the story read by Ramona (accompanied by students and Lea Nagel on guitar) and also by volunteer reader Richard Rowe.

Our day was a huge success and was also generously supported with funding from Eastern Metropolitan Region!

Below: Tim reads along with Ramona using a magnifier.	Below: Tyrone compares the picture of the fox with the puppet using myReader
Above: Ramona reads to the group of students who have puppets of the characters from the story and containers of gumnuts, creepy crawlies, slugs and bugs, feathers etc to add to the billy of stew.

If you would like more information about the Camps and Activities program, please contact Deb Lewis.