3rd comenius project meeting mersin 2014 reading situation in poland: problems and solutions...
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3rd Comenius Project Meeting
Mersin 2014
Reading situation in Poland: problems and solutions
Bolesław Chrobry Primary School in Lublin
1. Reading comprehension is assessed as early as the 3rd grade of primary school, both in Polish and a foreign language external tests.
2. Reading comprehension is a part of a graduation exam after each stage of education: Polish and English after primary school, Polish, English, History and Social Studies after middle and high school.
Reading as one of the major skills in Polish schooling system
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Challenges We Face or Why Students Do Not Read a Lot…
1. The Internet – most students are addicted to media
www.bezużyteczna.pl 2. Set books – more interesting at
the primary stage, often boring and irrelevant in the middle and high school;
3. Teachers lacking creativity while working on the set book;
4. Students are too busy to read (even to watch a movie!);
5. Reading is associated with Humanities (Maths & Science give job perspectives)
Reading at early stages of child’s development
1. School reform – children start school at the age of 6;
2. Children are not taught to read at preschool;
3. Pupils learn to read during the first year at school so some of them do not master the skill until they are 7!
1. We try to make reading in class as much fun as possible combining it
with activities like drawing, colouring, acting, poster-making, dressing-up as favourite characters etc;
2. We do a lot of pre-testing -mock exams, contests – so our students are well-prepared to sit for their exams;
3. Since our school works from 8 a.m. till 5 p.m. we are free to have a lot of extra-curricalr activities such as reading clubs, historical-reading club(!), drama clubs both in Polish and English, school newspaper editing club etc.
We use every chance to take part in different cultural projects encouraging reading:
The House of Words - one of cultural centres in Lublin, annual festival „The City of Poetry”
Storytelling contest won by our student Michał Serwa
*Our solution for young learners – Innovative School
*Extra Science and English classes – both multimedia and traditional;
*Introducing German in the first year of primary school.
*http://innowacja.sfera.lublin.pl/index.html
The results of our reading survey:
113 students aged 10-127 questions
Do you like reading?
81%
19%
yes
no
18
28
11
17
44
2
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
45
all the time, Ialways have abook on me
every day at weekends only when thereis a set book at
school
whenever I havetime
I don’t read atall
How often do you read ?
65
17
86
19
29
51
86
8
28
14
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
Fantasy sciencefiction
adventurebooks
love stories horrors detectivestories
teenliterature
science travelbooks
biographies
What kind of books do you like?
72
57
4348
44
58
38 39
75
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
readingenrichesyour
vocabulary
readinghelps us
experiencevariousemotions
reading is atime-kil ler
reading isentertaining
booksbroaden ourknowledge
readingteaches ushow to spell
reading canhelp in l ife
reading canhelp atschool
readingdevelops
imagination
Why should we read?