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A School-wide Reading Culture
“The idea and the programme as a whole have
created a culture where we have planted a seed
and it has grown into a small tree. If it gets more
water, it will grow into a school culture and a
culture for all children living in this area that will
last forever”
(Fifth-grade teacher from Cyprus)
2.
Teacher Training:
“Throughout the course of the interviews both teachers and parents expressed their
desire for further training in how to promote reading for pleasure for their children and
that they have learned a lot from the experience of implementing lifelong readers in
their school. Teacher: “learning
not to take it for granted that
children are reading, are readers
and just because you’re teaching
them how to read doesn’t mean
that they are readers so that’s a
whole other area that has to be
taken into account.” (Ireland)
Unengaged Children:
“There are children (fortunately a very small percent) from both schools who refuse to
read at all.” (Austria)
“In summer holidays most of the children visit their grandparents in their country of
origin. There they don’t have opportunities to be involved in reading promotion
activities. In families where parents are either not interested in reading, or not able to
help in it, children do not read a single book during the summer holidays.” (Austria)
“an area that needs to be addressed is the summer reading program so that you can
continue to guide the students in their intellectual development even when they are out
of school.” (Poland)
