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.
Best practices for creating reading culture
The Goals: The KiiT-IS Reading Culture motto is to promote reading habit to “make today's reader for tomorrows leader” through conducting several reading programs in KiiT International School Bhubaneswar. Each year the entire KiiTis 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 KiiT-is Reading Culture will pursue these goals through a variety of activities:
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 center 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 programes
The Goals: The KiiT-IS Reading Culture motto is to promote reading habit to “make today's reader for tomorrows leader” through conducting several reading programs in KiiT International School Bhubaneswar. Each year the entire KiiTis 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
- 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.
The KiiT-is Reading Culture will pursue these goals through a variety of activities:
- The newcomer’s orientation will incorporate for the Reading Culture.
- The KRCC will develop study questions and a schedule of activities to be posted on the Reading Culture website (in KiiT-IS activity website). All members of the KiiT-IS community will have access to these resources.
- The KRCC will work with KiiT-IS Library to sponsor activities for alumni and the parent's community.
- The KRCC 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 KRCC will sponsor all Reading programs to bring together members of the KiiT-IS community for group discussion.
- The KRCC will work with local bookstores, such as Crossword, Scholastic and British library to bring in speakers and to promote the reading.
Reading Curriculum
Reading Curriculum provides a continuum of reading skills for each grade level to enhance the delivery of a quality reading promotion program. Additionally, through a collaborative agenda with classroom teachers, it provides a structure for developing a literature based instructional program that incorporates an inquiry-based approach. Consequently, this scope and sequence becomes a companion document to the information literacy instructional program. So reading curriculum is an important part of KiiT-IS. By creating a reading curriculum teachers are able to encourage students to strive harder and achieve greater results.
First, reading is a window to the world. Reading is a foundational skill for learning, personal growth, and enjoyment. The degree to which students can read and understand information in all formats and all contexts is a key indicator of success in school and in life. As a lifelong learning skill, reading goes beyond decoding and comprehension to interpretation and development of new understandings.
Second, inquiry provides a framework for learning. To become independent learners, students must gain not only the skills but also the dispositions to use those skills, along with an understanding of their own responsibilities and self-assessment strategies. Combined together, these two elements build a learner who can thrive in a complex information environment. Integrate reading with home works and projects. Students should be given more & more library oriented projects.
Determine the Theme and activityThe KRCC will meet twice in a year to determine a theme for the Reading culture. Nominations will be solicited from the KiiT-IS community and reviewed by the Committee, which will recommend a reading PROGRAMS to the Principal. The Committee will make recommendations at least six months in advance, to allow time to invite speakers, develop study questions, plan activities, and prepare the other activities designed to promote the Reading.
First, reading is a window to the world. Reading is a foundational skill for learning, personal growth, and enjoyment. The degree to which students can read and understand information in all formats and all contexts is a key indicator of success in school and in life. As a lifelong learning skill, reading goes beyond decoding and comprehension to interpretation and development of new understandings.
Second, inquiry provides a framework for learning. To become independent learners, students must gain not only the skills but also the dispositions to use those skills, along with an understanding of their own responsibilities and self-assessment strategies. Combined together, these two elements build a learner who can thrive in a complex information environment. Integrate reading with home works and projects. Students should be given more & more library oriented projects.
- Projects which requires
- Current periodicals,
- Books,
- EBooks
- Encyclopedias
- Online Databases and library resource websites etc
- Make reading a part of school life
- Teachers need to set goals based on the guidelines while keeping in mind the students within the class.
- The goal of reading curriculum is to build on the lessons learned in early years and extend literary knowledge for improvements in reading and writing skills.
- The goals should focus on small steps, the intermediate steps and the final expectations that students must meet by the end of the year.
- To develop new ideas, understand materials after reading and improve on skills that were developed at a younger age.
Determine the Theme and activityThe KRCC will meet twice in a year to determine a theme for the Reading culture. Nominations will be solicited from the KiiT-IS community and reviewed by the Committee, which will recommend a reading PROGRAMS to the Principal. The Committee will make recommendations at least six months in advance, to allow time to invite speakers, develop study questions, plan activities, and prepare the other activities designed to promote the Reading.