Developing reading literacy in English using the digital children's librarySymposia
How to encourage children’s reading habits is a question that teachers often ask themselves. The objectives, course and evaluation of the reading lesson will be presented, with students developing reading strategies in the digital library and using KWN reading strategy.
The International Digital Children's Library is a modern learning resource that enriches and makes reading lessons more interesting for students. The purpose of this unique library is to support the children of the world in becoming effective members of the global community who have tolerance and respect for different cultures, languages and ideas. It offers the best selection of children's literature for free.
The lesson was set up as a part of cross-curricular learning: two eighth-graders first introduced an online library to fifth-graders and browsed through interesting book material. They then read to students in English the story about a whale that is sad because it is too big to play hide and seek. The peer learning project proved to be very successful. The students actively participated in the lesson and were enthusiastic about the first walk through the digital library, and the students teachers were also satisfied with the implementation of their first lesson. We connected English, Slovene and fine arts interdisciplinary. We believe that this way of learning is closer to students because they perceive the world as a whole and not divided into different subject areas. The lesson course and the digital source were also presented to schools in Lithuania and Greece, which participate in the two-year international project Erasmus + Out of subject box. The purpose of the project is to step outside the precisely defined subject framework and to connect interdisciplinary and internationally in order to exchange examples of good practice.