{"id":12943,"date":"2016-02-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/stora-upplestrarkeppnin-2\/"},"modified":"2022-10-25T08:59:13","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T08:59:13","slug":"the-great-reading-competition-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/stora-upplestrarkeppnin-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Reading Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>To you<\/strong> is invited to the Grand Reading Competition.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>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 Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur, will read extracts from a work of fiction and poetry. \u00a0Finally, a judging panel will select the three best readers and present them with prizes. In addition, young musicians will perform.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Awards for recitation, short stories, fiction and invitations&nbsp;<\/h4>\n<p>The poets for this competition are Brynd\u00eds Bj\u00f6rgvinsd\u00f3ttir and Gu\u00f0mundur B\u00f6\u00f0varsson. The Great Reading Competition began in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur 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.<\/p>\n<h4>About the Great Reading Competition<\/h4>\n<p>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.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Guests are welcome as long as there is room.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/upplestur.hafnarfjordur.is\/\">Voices, an association for high-quality reading and presentation<\/a><\/strong> <\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00de\u00c9R er bo\u00f0i\u00f0 \u00e1 St\u00f3ru upplestrarkeppnina.&nbsp;&nbsp; Keppnin &nbsp;fer fram \u00ed Hafnarborg \u00feri\u00f0judaginn 8. mars fr\u00e1 kl. 17-19. Keppnin er n\u00fa haldin \u00ed tuttugusta skipti og fagnar \u00fev\u00ed 20 \u00e1ra afm\u00e6li \u00ed \u00e1r.&nbsp;\u00c1 h\u00e1t\u00ed\u00f0inni munu nemendur \u00ed 7. bekk, sem valdir hafa veri\u00f0 \u00far grunnsk\u00f3lum Hafnarfjar\u00f0ar, lesa brot \u00far sk\u00e1ldverki og lj\u00f3\u00f0. &nbsp;A\u00f0 lokum mun d\u00f3mnefnd [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frettir"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12943"}],"curies":[{"name":"WordPress","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}