Short Édition introduces the Short Story Cube at BETT 2022

WESTMINSTER, U.K. - March 8, 2022 - PRLog -- In the UK, reading for pleasure is at an all-time low: in 2020, less than half of children and young people said they enjoy reading, according to the National Literacy Trust (https://literacytrust.org.uk/information/what-is-literacy/).  Short Édition is on a mission to change with the Short Story Cube, a device designed to encourage young people to discover the joy of reading and the pride of writing, within a framework set by teachers on the Short Story Portal to ensure the content is suitable and relevant to each class's curriculum.

Create a love of reading
The Short Story Cube is designed with users in mind. It can be used to access a wealth of content – both from Short Édition's curated library with collections (language, contemporary, classics or themed), and from your imagination! When combined with the Short Story Portal, the Cube can also publish students' compositions.

The combination of both an in-classroom and an online experience has been proven to inspire creativity, thinking and analysis. For students, this encourages them to write, which is the basis of a love of reading. It also gives them a creative outlet that, conversely to gaming, gives them a physical object and the pride of creating a story that is then publicly available.

For everyone
The Short Story Cube makes literature accessible to everyone and can be configured to different levels of difficulty. It includes a specific module for neurodivergent users, to support students
with dyslexia, dysphasia, dyspraxia and multidys with the reading comfort they need to gain confidence as well as boosting attention and comprehension skills.

The Cube produces diverse forms of literature, from short stories to poetry to comics. As the educator is in charge of programming the settings, themes, genres and length, it is as relevant in a leading university as it is in a Year 7 classroom. Short form literature is less intimidating for struggling readers, whereas the possibility of publishing student texts is rewarding for both students and teachers at any level.

Short Édition will be on stand NK31 at BETT Show, as part of the French Pavilion, and will have a Short Story Cube on site for you to try for yourself.