It is very important to give advantages
for pleasure of reading from the first years of life. In this task is essential
the permanent work from the school and teachers.
As a future
teachers, we must develop specific innovative strategies to encourage reading
with the aim to achieve habits on children. We have to know how to transform
limitations into possibilities.
Nowadays, there is
a deep lack of motivation towards lecture in children because of reasons, among
others, as a:
- Excess school and extracurricular
tasks obligations.
- Inadequacy of books to readers.
- Absence of reader encouragements in
the family.
The idea of
encouraging the reading habits and enjoying with books can try to develop with
different innovative strategies. One of them is to mix reading with ITC
resources. In that way it is possible to develop reading activity in two
cognitive ways: social and individual.
It is important to encourage reading from
entertainment, without putting pressure on the students in development of
curricular activities with the use of paper and pencil. We get children dont
feel reading like a more homework.
We can propose various
ICT tasks with the intention to facilitate the reading competence of a book:
1. Comments about
the book on a blog. Each student can create a blog. Then, they can advertise a
summary and a personal opinion of the book in their blogs.
2. Reading in a digital media using an
eReader or if they want to read a PDF documents, they can use Adobe Reader
program.
3. Send and receive tweets. We can
organize an activity in which they can exchange different points of view about
a topic in a school social network. Like this, we encourage our students to
read, they contrast ideas and provide opinions and we promote the respect about
code of conduct.
4. Narrations. Students can use tools
like Power Point or Prezi in order to elaborate slides which they will summarize
the content of the book. The fact to assemble each slide with videos, titles,
animation and/or audio is fun and entertaining for our students.
5. Interactive multimedia activities.
We have used a lot of tools along our training degree like Hot potatoes or
Jclic. As a future teachers we can develop various activities and interactive
digital games around the reading of a book with the aim that student use them
to reinforce the book´s contents.
