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Scheme to develop reading ability in students of 1st to 5th standard : Entire April month of this year to be dedicated to development of reading ability

Raipur ( thestates.news ) | Reading ability is one of the most important aspects of quality education. The textbooks serve its purpoe only when children understand what they read.Keeping this in view, School Education Department has formulated a scheme to develop reading ability in children. Under this scheme, entire April month will be dedicated to development of reading ability in children, so that they may learn to read and understand their lessons. For this, competitions will be organized from cluster level to state level. Nearly 17 lakh children of primary schools across the state will be benefitted under the scheme.

School Education Department Principal Secretary Dr Alok Shukla has written letter to all the District Collectors, informing them about the scheme, and has directed them to chalk out and submit the format for respective district within a week. It was stated in the letter that evaluation work in all schools of primary-level should be completed by the month of March, so that April month can be dedicated to development of reading ability in students. In the month of March, workshops will be organized at school-level in all the districts and reading material along with text books will be selected. This material will be made available to primary schools and in libraries. Collectors have been directed to ensure that the reading material is enjoyable for students, games and activities should be planned to develop reading ability in children. Teacher learning material should be developed by making best out of waste. In every cluster, minimum 100 games and TLMs should be enlisted, through which children may have fun learning experience.

In the month of April, schools will dedicate entire day every day to teach reading to children. A team will be formed by Collector to monitor this activity and every school will be inspected at least once by any of the officer. Collectors have been directed to prepare plan for monitoring system and share it with Principal Secretary School Education.

Towards the end of April month, reading competitions will be organized at cluster-level and mother of students will be the judge. Local public representatives have also been requested to be present in these competitions. This competition will serve as parents-teachers meeting. Winners of cluster-level competitions will participate in block-level reading competitions. And the winners of block-level competitions will participate in district-level competitions. Collectors have been asked to set time table for these activities. On a fixed date in month of May, state-level programme will be held, where children of all schools will read a lesson simultaneously. In this way, 17 lakh children in all the primary schools across the state will read simultaneously.