This year's graduates have been promoted to junior high school in the autumn of 2006. They are students from grade one to grade six in my primary school. As early as their third grade, in order to cultivate students' interest in reading, I asked them to subscribe to some extracurricular books and periodicals, such as Innovative Writing for Pupils, Reading and Writing for Pupils, Fairy Tales, King of Pupils' Writing and King of Stories ... The students were very enthusiastic, and they subscribed to their favorite books and periodicals. Every time the postman delivers the books and periodicals subscribed by the students, the students can't wait to read them. After reading their own books, they exchanged reading with each other. Teachers often read beautiful articles to their classmates. Every Friday, our class will hold a regular press conference, so that students can talk about their collected short stories, look at articles they think are good-looking, or look at good words and sentences inside. Other parents also support students' extracurricular reading and buy them some extracurricular books. Students have a lot of extra-curricular books, so I asked them to concentrate their books in the classroom and set up a small book corner so that every student can have a chance to read more and more wonderful books.
At first, some students and parents were reluctant to donate extra-curricular books to the class because they were worried that these books would be dirty and damaged. This kind of worry is not unreasonable. Most of the children's small hands in rural areas are dirty. Some children don't pay attention to books and periodicals, just throw them away and tear them up. To solve this problem, the whole class held a class meeting. I ask students to read the famous saying posted in the classroom: Love books, which is the ladder of human progress. Love books, it is the source of knowledge. I told my students that if you love books, you should first take good care of them, keep them clean, tidy and flat, and then study hard. I also worked out the management rules and borrowing system of the class library corner with my classmates, such as compensation for the price of dirty and broken books, and each classmate served as the librarian. This will reassure students who have concerns, and the book corner in our class will soon be established.
After collecting many books, I instructed students to number, catalog and register books according to the Measures for Library Management. The number, title, donor's name and donation time of each book are recorded in a booklet, which is managed by specialized students. The students each designed a beautiful library card, and they can borrow books to read. Sometimes, we read in groups.
As time goes by, more and more books are donated to the book corner of our class. The book corner regularly recommends new books to students, organizes activities to exchange reading experience, and guides everyone to read good books. The book corner has become everyone's mentor, and students' interest in extracurricular reading is getting higher and higher. In the fourth grade, some students will consciously extract good words and sentences from reading materials and learn to write reading notes. When students enter the fifth and sixth grades, their reading ability is gradually enhanced. I guide them to read newspapers and influential books. I took the newspapers I subscribed to and the books I bought to the classroom for my classmates to circulate.
During the four years from grade three to grade six, students have read Andersen's Fairy Tales, Arabian Nights, 100,000 Why's, Education of Love, How Steel was Tempered … and many excellent student works.
Now, the students have graduated from primary school. Some students left their donated books, saying they were for first-year students. These books are piled on my desk. Although it faded, there was not a page missing or a code missing.
The establishment of class book corner can not only cultivate students' extracurricular reading habits, but also standardize students' daily behavior. Students can not only develop dedication, but also improve the management ability of class cadres.