KiiT-IS Reading Culture
Creating a reading culture in a school is essential to encourage students to become engaged and motivated readers. Developing a reading culture takes time and requires commitment and collaboration of staff and whole school user community. KiiTIS Library passionate and determined to promote reading habit and the culture during and after the school hours.
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Best practices for creating reading culture
- Access to books: Students need access to a wide array of reading materials at their independent level.
- Time to read: Students need consistent, daily time to read at school.
- Reading engagement: Students need classroom conditions that engage them with reading and foster reading self-efficacy.
- School-wide support: Schools must create a culture of reading that values reading in all subject areas.
- Well-stocked libraries with qualified librarians: School library collections should contain current, well-maintained collections of interesting reading material manned by trained, qualified librarians.
- Library Location: It should be centre of the school.
- Student choice: Students need frequent opportunities to select their own reading materials for both personal and academic reasons.
- To fully support the library and its resources, services and programmes
The Goals:
The Reading Culture motto is to promote reading habit to “make today's reader for tomorrows leader” through conducting several reading programs for the school. Each year the entire school community will be encouraged to read and discuss a common text. The basic goals, to promote reading, and to teach information literacy skills
The goals of the Reading Culture are
The goals of the Reading Culture are
- To promote / reinforce the importance of reading for pleasure, to develop literacy skills and academic achievement,
- To stimulate conversation and debate on a common topic,
- To reinforce the idea of education as something that takes place outside as well as inside the classroom.
Pursue the Goals
The Reading Culture will pursue these goals through a variety of activities:
- The newcomer’s orientation will incorporate for the Reading Culture.
- The RCC will develop study questions and a schedule of activities to be posted on the Reading Culture website (in "It's your Day" website). All members of the school community will have access to these resources.
- The RCC will work with school Library to sponsor activities for alumni and the parents community.
- The RCC will work with other cultural organizations to bring speakers and cultural events to campus. Book Club selections may be linked with annual events such as international school library day, Roald dahl day, Independence Day or the other reading promotional days.
- The RCC will sponsor all Reading programs to bring together members of the school community for group discussion.
- The RCC will work with local bookstores, such as Crossword, Scholastic and British library to bring in speakers and to promote the reading.
Reading Research
- Do students lose depth in digital reading?
- Book up for a longer life
- Reading for pleasure: a research overview
- Reading for pleasure: a door to success
- Why are our 15 year olds falling behind in reading and writing?
- Why reading at a young age matters: info graphic
- Reading Literature Makes Us Smarter and Nicer
- Why are children reading books? Don't they know it's digital first?
- Reading for pleasure builds empathy and improves well being, research from The Reading Agency finds
- Collection of resources on which is best - reading digitally or reading paper
- Top 10 books for your principal to read aloud at staff meetings
- Printed books survive and thrive against e-competitors