Importance of Silent Reading
INDRODUCING NEW FORMS FOR GREATER MOTIVATION OF CHILDREN FOR READING
GENESIS
“I will let him at first read any English book which happens to engage his attention because you have done a great deal when you have brought him, to have entertainment from a book. He’ll get better books afterwards.” ----Johnson
By reading we mean reading comprehensively. Suppose a person say’s “I have read the paragraph.” This doesn’t mean that he has simply gone through it or he only knows how to read loudly by producing different sounds. Reading here means effective reading or good reading with comprehension. Difficulties of learners in reading are increasing from 5th class on and learners are more and more left on their own. Everyone expect that they are already solid or good readers and in this way not get special help. The problem is getting bigger and bigger as their motivation for reading is very small. A new form of motivation- silent reading, which has been running in school, already showed some results and will continue in future. Silent reading is a form of motivation meant to children for better reading. The learners, teachers read for 30 minutes in a fortnight. In this contribution the whole procedure and additional functions, which are needed for this kind of project, are presented. At the end of the session teacher carried out an opinion poll among the readers, (classes VI& IX) to get feedback of its effectiveness. The results of it are also presented in this contribution. It is known from school practice that teachers come across with learners who have serious difficulties with reading in higher classes. There are always lots of reasons for that kind of situation. The most frequent answer is shown in the statements of children that they do not like to read, are not motivated to read. The problem is increasing as wheel turns into magic circle: read poorly do not like to readdo not read enough. The school
GENESIS
“I will let him at first read any English book which happens to engage his attention because you have done a great deal when you have brought him, to have entertainment from a book. He’ll get better books afterwards.” ----Johnson
By reading we mean reading comprehensively. Suppose a person say’s “I have read the paragraph.” This doesn’t mean that he has simply gone through it or he only knows how to read loudly by producing different sounds. Reading here means effective reading or good reading with comprehension. Difficulties of learners in reading are increasing from 5th class on and learners are more and more left on their own. Everyone expect that they are already solid or good readers and in this way not get special help. The problem is getting bigger and bigger as their motivation for reading is very small. A new form of motivation- silent reading, which has been running in school, already showed some results and will continue in future. Silent reading is a form of motivation meant to children for better reading. The learners, teachers read for 30 minutes in a fortnight. In this contribution the whole procedure and additional functions, which are needed for this kind of project, are presented. At the end of the session teacher carried out an opinion poll among the readers, (classes VI& IX) to get feedback of its effectiveness. The results of it are also presented in this contribution. It is known from school practice that teachers come across with learners who have serious difficulties with reading in higher classes. There are always lots of reasons for that kind of situation. The most frequent answer is shown in the statements of children that they do not like to read, are not motivated to read. The problem is increasing as wheel turns into magic circle: read poorly do not like to readdo not read enough. The school