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Reading week around the world

Summary

This project is about develpoing students' reading skills through organizing reading weeks in which students are exposed to many reading materials. Later , students are expected to produce follow-up activities.e.g posters, roles plays, models ...etc This project aims at sharing experiences in handling reading weeks around the world and improving students' reading skills.

Age range: 10 - 17
Language: English
Owner: Alghalia Alkindi

Project stage: In progress
Last update: 15 years ago

Introducing the Reading Week

* English Teachers will conduct a workshop to introduce the Reading Week to students explaining what to be done during the event. * Another workshop will be conducted to students about using different reading strategies.

Reading Strategies-Overview.ppt 109.5 kB

reading_strategies[1].pdf 296.6 kB

Reading Week in Practice

* Preparing the school yard, the English club room, the Learning Resource Centre...etc for the event. * Organising students into groups classwise. * Distributing reading materials among students according to their interests and level of English. * Students engage in actual reading while teachers monitor and encourage them to apply varied reading strategies.

reading materials

Reading Week Exhibition

* Teachers get students to do varied follow-up reading activites, e.g posters, role plays, models...etc * Teachers organise an exhibition to display students' work and role plays... * Parents are invited to see their childrens' work and vote on best activities. * Certificates and awards are distributed among students.

role play