Fiction Express
Online reading platform: deeply engaging experience of co-creation between pupils and authors
- Product Type
- Software
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- Platform
- PCMacTabletMobileInternet-based
INTRODUCTION
Fiction Express is an award-winning literacy resource (Winner Bett Awards 2020, Winner Education Resources Awards 2019, 5* Winner Teach Primary Awards – “best English literacy resource”), which offers a unique reading experience to primary school pupils. It has been designed to improve poor reading habits by getting children excited about reading through the power of engagement.
Fiction Express stories are published in weekly instalments. Each week, pupils read the chapter and at the end they are rewarded with the option to vote to decide what happens next.
The author then writes the next chapter in real time. Pupils can also interact on the online book forum with the author and other readers from around the world to voice their opinions and build the story together. In addition, readers have free access to over 125 already finished books.
INNOVATIVE NATURE OF FICTION EXPRESS
Fiction Express is turning the traditional linear reading process into a deeply engaging experience of co-creation between pupils and authors (“co-creative reading”). It offers not just a library of eBooks and creative reading exercises, including comprehension and response activities, but allows pupils to play an active role in the writing-reading process, through real-time feedback using votes and online conversations with the author.
As a result, FE revolutionises the culture of reading in primary schools:
- From passive and linear reading to participative and interactive reading.
- From story-centred to student-centred.
- From receptive reading to creative reading.
- From obligation to predisposition.
- From learning to read to learning to understand.
- From reading comprehension to academic success.
FICTION EXPRESS METHODOLOGY
The 6-step Fiction Express methodology has been developed with the goal of increasing children’s reading engagement – both in school and at home – by placing them in the centre of the creative writing process and reading experience (for further details: see supplementary information): 1. READ the chapter, 2. VOTE on the plot, 3. TALK to the author, 4. ANSWER the quiz, 5. ENJOY the activities, 6. MEASURE the impact.
For more information please refer to the attached brochure.
- Costs
- £10 per pupil
SPECIAL OFFER FOR UK SCHOOLS DURING COVID-19 SCHOOL CLOSURES
Due to UK school closures, in line with its social mission of bringing reading and learning to all children, Fiction Express has decided to allow free access to the platform for affected schools, until end of the school year 2019/20. Schools can request access, which will give their students the opportunity to read new books and work on various activities from home.
Schools can register for free via the website: https://en.fictionexpress.com/coronavirus Once activated, student logins can be generated giving them access to hundreds of books and thousands of activities online (and as PDFs). A tracking and evaluating system for the results allows teachers to monitor what their students are reading and achieving from a distance.
- Trial Options
- 2 months
Normally we offer a free trial of two months which allows teachers and pupils to enjoy a complete Fiction Express book (publication during 5 weeks).
SPECIAL OFFER DURING COVID-19 SCHOOL CLOSURES: free access for all UK schools until end of the school year 2019/20. Schools can register for free via the website: https://en.fictionexpress.com/coronavirus.
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