THE BRIDGE-HELPFUL READING LITERACY STRATEGIES

Reading Literacy
3. Reading Literacy
3.1 Reading activities for the improvement of reading literacy - for
pre-school children and learners aged 6 to 12
by
Jana Špilar Dodič, teacher of Slovenian at the lower secondary school level, Slovenia
There are four main objectives in the project:
THE OBJECTIVES
- to present a project on »Reading Literacy« and some of the reading activities
involved;
- to present a workshop showing how different methods work in practice;
- to get new ideas for reading activities.
Slovenian national project „Reading Literacy“
A few years ago, our school participated in a national project called »Reading Literacy«. The
project was led by the Slovenian Institute of Education and the Ministry of Education, and
financed by the European Union. Why was the project founded? Slovenian students were
achieving average results in various exams at national and international level. Some of them
had problems reading and were not motivated enough to read. Of course, we wanted them
to be more successful.
There were 35 schools included in the project, and every school had its own team, which
organized different activities for students and workshops for teachers.
The main objective of the project was to use different reading strategies to improve reading
literacy and also motivate students to read by giving them more opportunities in doing just
that. Our expectations were not too extensive. The goals were set on a smaller scale, which
would show gradual improvement in reading literacy in the long run.
The project proved to be such a success that even after the project officially ended some of
the activities have still remained part of our school life. As teachers we believe that, in order
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