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Materials for Shadowing Groups

Materials for this year's Shadowing Scheme are now available online. To access the individual activities for each of the titles on the 2008 shortlist simply click on the links below:  

The Alchemyst by Michael Scott

The Black Book of Secrets by F E Higgins

Discover Art (at the Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane) by Jessica O’Donnell

Gaiscíoch na Beilte Uaine written by Caitríona Nic Sheaín and illustrated by Andrew Whitson

The Last of the High Kings by Kate Thompson

The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd

The Thing with Finn by Tom Kelly

Titanic 2020 by Colin Bateman

The Way Back Home written and illustrated by Oliver Jeffers

Wilderness by Roddy Doyle

To help groups get ready from the shadowing experience, CBI have produced a special Preparation Pack, full of useful advice and activities. The full 2008 Prep Pack can be downloaded here.

If you are not yet signed-up but would like to take part, download a 2008 regististration form click here.


Shadowing 2007 

Below are examples of the materials from last year. The 2007  shortlist comprised 10 exciting and interesting books that covered a range of subjects, age groups, and genres.  Follow the links from the shortlisted books below to the relevant class materials. 

The activites are designed to aid comprehension and stimulate student discussion and are presented with  a wide range of age groups and interests and are intended to help students engage with the texts in meaningful and creative ways.  Feel free to adapt these to fit the needs of your class or library group. You are free to make multiple copies of the activities but please ensure you credit CBI. Formal publication is not permitted without written permission from CBI. For further details contact CBI's Programme Officer.

A Christmas Carol - P.J. Lynch A Christmas Carol Shadowing Materials

A Swift Pure Cry -Siobhan Dowd A Swift Pure Cry Shadowing Materials

Artemis Fowl & the Lost Colony -Eoin Colfer Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony shadowing materials

An Táín - Colmán Ó Raghallaigh An Tain shadowing materials

Hurlamaboc - Eilís Ní Dhuibhne Hurlamaboc shadowing materials

Something Invisible -Siobhan Parkinson Something Invisible shadowing materials

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas Shadowing Materials

The Fourth Horseman - Kate Thompson The Fourth Horseman Shadowing Materials

The Incredible Book Eating Boy - Oliver Jeffers The Incredible Book Eating Boy Shadowing Materials

The Palace of Laughter - Jon Berkeley Palace of Laughter Shadowing Materials

 
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Coming Up

October 10, 2008 (9:45 am)
Paul H Tubb
(Kilkenny) Poet,songwriter, singer will visit Loughboy library
October 10, 2008 (11:30 am)
Paul H Tubb poet
(Kilkenny) Paul H Tubb will visit Graiguenamanagh library
October 10, 2008 (3:30 pm)
Digging up the Past
(Kilkenny) Laura Walsh, Field Monument Officer with Kilkenny Co. Co. will host a mini "dig" in Urlingford library. The children will make some "finds" in a sand box consisting of pieces of ancient china, metals, jewellry. These will be documented and recorded in...
October 10, 2008 (6:00 pm)
Art-literary workshop
(Waterford City) Donia Sikora Iwa Wisniewska & Dream Team in City Library in Landy Lane, Waterford
October 11, 2008 (10:00 am)
Niamh Sharkey at Illustration Cupboard, London
(Dublin City)

The Illustration Cupboard in London will host an exhbition of Niamh Sharkey's work featuring all her original pieces from Cinderella, including roughs, notebooks etc..

The show will be available to view online too at www.illustrationcupboard.com ...

October 11, 2008 (10:00 am)
MAMA, TATA...& MYSELF?
(Cork City) Journalism workshop for children by Piotr SBotwinski (My Cork Assotiation)/ Polish School in Cork

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