Right to Read
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The national Right to Read programme brings together local authorities and local bodies involved in supporting literacy and reading development in the local area for a coordinated approach to providing these services in the local community. Right to Read supports literacy development for individuals, families and children as part of a locally coordinated, sustainable and standard approach across the country.
Donegal Library Service, with partner organisations, draws up and coordinates an annual local Right to Read Action Plan and works with those partners towards its implementation. Highlights annually in our libraries have included Spring into Storytime sessions during April, the Summer Stars reading programme during July and August, and the much anticipated Wainfest Children's Arts and Books Festival during October. Other projects with network partners include Read DL, Babbling Babies nursery rhyme and action song book, Bookworm Babies and Creating Lifelong Readers, as well as programmes with libraries and local schools such as Battle of the Books. Partnerships are critical to implementing all elements of the Donegal Right to Read programme.
All programmes and projects included in the Action Plan aim to encourage reading habits and to foster a love of reading.
For information on the national Right to Read programme see Right to Read.
New Adult Literacy Workbooks
These workbooks aim to support adults to improve their English language skills. They cover reading, writing, grammar and comprehension. Each activity has an icon at the top to let you know what is being covered.
Each workbook contains activities which can be completed as you read the book of the same title. There are multiple copies of these books available via branches of Donegal County Library Service. We invite groups to set up book clubs and use these workbooks to further develop their literacy skills.
The workbooks for Brooklyn, Slumdog Millionaire, The Children Act and The Talented Mr Ripley are particularly relevant to ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) students.
The Adult Literacy for Life National Programme Office, based in SOLAS, funded this project through Donegal ETB.
- Brooklyn Workbook Fillable 3.3
- Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde Fillable Workbook 3.3
- Frankenstein Fillable Workbook 3.3
- Great Expectations Workbook Fillable 3.3
- Jane Eyre Fillable Workbook 4.3
- Slumdog Millionaire Workbook Fillable 3.3
- The Children Act Workbook Fillable 4.3
- The Talented Mr Ripley Workbook Fillable 4.3
Resources
These workbooks aim to support adults to improve their English language skills. They cover reading, writing, grammar and comprehension. Each activity has an icon at the top to let you know what is being covered.
Each workbook contains activities which can be completed as you read the book of the same title. There are multiple copies of these books available via branches of Donegal County Library Service. We invite groups to set up book clubs and use these workbooks to further develop their literacy skills.
The workbooks for Brooklyn, Slumdog Millionaire, The Children Act and The Talented Mr Ripley are particularly relevant to ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) students.
The Adult Literacy for Life National Programme Office, based in SOLAS, funded this project through Donegal ETB.
- Brooklyn Workbook Fillable 3.3
- Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde Fillable Workbook 3.3
- Frankenstein Fillable Workbook 3.3
- Great Expectations Workbook Fillable 3.3
- Jane Eyre Fillable Workbook 4.3
- Slumdog Millionaire Workbook Fillable 3.3
- The Children Act Workbook Fillable 4.3
- The Talented Mr Ripley Workbook Fillable 4.3
Donegal Literature and Landscape 2024
Buncrana Community Library was the location for a very special event called Donegal Literature and Landscape on Ireland Reads Day, Saturday 24th February 2024. Inspired by the Booker Prize win of Donegal author Paul Lynch, a host of the county’s most talented poets, novelists, artists and historians came together to discuss the way the unique and rugged landscape of Donegal has influenced their own work.
A number of panel discussions led by Kathy Donaghy examined how authors ‘bring Donegal with them’ into their work as well as examining what ‘writing Donegal’ means in terms of both contemporary and historical literature. Writers from William Allingham to Brian Friel have tapped into our richest resource, the hills, glens and coastline of the county to create great works of fiction, poetry and drama.
This event, funded by Creative Ireland, was an opportunity to celebrate Donegal as a place apart. A place that that has inspired and produced writers from the Four Masters and their annals to a Booker Prize winning author.
You can now watch the panel discussions back here: