The Great Reading Competition
You are invited to the Grand Reading Competition. The competition will take place at Hafnarborg on Tuesday, 8th March from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. This year marks the 20th anniversary of the competition, which is being held for the twentieth time.
To you is invited to the Grand Reading Competition.
The competition will take place at Hafnarborg on Tuesday, 8th March from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. The competition is now being held for the twentieth time and is therefore celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. At the event, Year 7 pupils, selected from the primary schools of Hafnarfjörður, will read extracts from a work of fiction and poetry. Finally, a judging panel will select the three best readers and present them with prizes. In addition, young musicians will perform.
Awards for recitation, short stories, fiction and invitations
The poets for this competition are Bryndís Björgvinsdóttir and Guðmundur Böðvarsson. The Great Reading Competition began in Hafnarfjörður in 1996 and is therefore 20 years old. At the ceremony, the results of the short story competition for pupils in years 8-10 will also be announced and awards presented. A competition for the invitation design was held among pupils in year 6 in the primary schools. The winning design adorns the invitation and the winner will be recognised at the ceremony.
About the Great Reading Competition
At the beginning of the school year, teachers and schools decide whether they are going to take part in the Big Read-Aloud Competition for Year 7. The project is overseen by the education authorities in each region, or by special coordinators, and is supported by Raddir, an association for quality reading and public speaking. The project itself begins at a ceremony in the schools on the Icelandic Language Day each year.
The aim of the Year 7 reading competition is to raise awareness and interest in schools in good reading and pronunciation. The competition itself is actually secondary, and it should be avoided to focus on winning. The most important thing is for teachers to use this opportunity to cultivate a key aspect of the mother tongue with their pupils: proper reading and pronunciation. They should encourage all pupils to read aloud, for their own and others' enjoyment. The aim should be for all reading in connection with the competition to be more in the nature of a celebration than a contest. This is especially true of the competition's final event.
Guests are welcome as long as there is room.
Voices, an association for high-quality reading and presentation