In Baishida Primary School in Luohu District, Shenzhen, "reading" is called the most beautiful gesture on campus. With warm reading environment, rich reading activities, intensive reading courses and sufficient free reading time, the school is committed to cultivating young readers with strong reading interests and good reading habits. Cultivating lifelong readers is the long-term goal of school reading promotion. In this process, the school has always regarded parents as an indispensable force, calling on parents to accompany their children to study as a natural family life style.
Renew and promote parents' reading concept
To let parents participate in their children's reading life, we must first change and enhance their understanding of reading. Every year, the "parents' forum" before freshmen enter school begins with the principal's lecture-"Parent-child reading is the best companion". One idea that the school tries to promote to parents is that "children are not born readers, they usually need someone to lead them into the world of reading", and parents are the best candidates to shoulder this leading responsibility.
The school also invited experts with rich experience in reading promotion, reading promoters and parents to share their parents' reading experience, such as how to choose suitable books for children, how to cultivate children's reading interest, and how to treat the relationship between reading and learning. Through a series of lectures, guide parents to create a family reading environment and improve parents' parent-child reading concept and level.
Invite parents into the campus to carry out reading activities.
Schools create opportunities for parents to participate in school reading activities and even the construction of reading courses. Home and school work together to form a good reading atmosphere, making reading an important force to promote children's growth.
The school organized the activity of "Story Mom and Dad Entering the Classroom". On March 20 12, the first batch of parents volunteers who can tell stories came into the classroom to read picture books and tell stories to their children. Since then, parents have entered the classroom one after another to share their carefully selected books with their children, including picture books, bridge books and novels.
The school opened the library and set up a team of "library volunteers". For example, the mother of student Han Xueyuan not only cultivated her daughter into a reading enthusiast, but also grew into a professional reading promoter herself. As a parent volunteer, she is the director of the school library and leads the volunteer team to provide colorful reading services for children. These parents volunteers are not only responsible for the daily service of the library, but also hold a library class once a week, sowing the seeds of reading in children's hearts with professional reading guidance and expanding their reading horizons. The school library was also named "the most beautiful campus library in Shenzhen" because of the unique culture formed by parents' high participation.
Rich activities stimulate reading interest.
The school cooperated with parents to develop a series of rich activities and courses, which greatly stimulated children's interest in reading. For example, parents and volunteers set up a "reading performance club" and organized children to arrange many wonderful children's plays, such as Hairless Chicken, Journey to the East, and Good Horse. And provide children with a variety of reading experiences in the form of "book performance".
The "Reading Activity Planning Team" has planned a large number of creative reading activities, such as art walk, enterprise walk, evening music festival and so on. Let children further feel the beauty of reading in reading and practice. Children's favorite "Library Carnival" is a large-scale reading activity jointly planned and implemented by schools and parents, which integrates reading, art, food and games, scouring classic books, playing interesting games, watching wonderful performances and eating food ... Every activity is warmly welcomed by children and parents.
Through these colorful activities, parents' parent-child reading level has been continuously improved, and children's reading interests and habits have become better and better. In order to lead and promote more families' parent-child reading, the school collects family parent-child reading cases every year, selects outstanding reading volunteers and scholarly families, and promotes excellent parent-child reading experience through award ceremony and WeChat official account report.
Through the close cooperation between home and school, Blackstone Primary School has gradually built an ecological environment of "making reading as natural as breathing", from which all the people involved can benefit, not only enjoying the pleasure of reading, but also growing together in reading.