The Reading Climate in Elementary School: A Case study of 1st and 2nd Grade Classes in MuZha Elementary School
Date Issued
2007
Date
2007
Author(s)
Huang, Jin-Ju
DOI
zh-TW
Abstract
The governments of foreign countries, such as United States, United Kingdom, and Japan have made the children reading policies to let the authorities concerned to engage in the children reading movement and to cultivate the forces of the nation since the end of twentieth century. Recently, the issues of children reading have been emphasized domestically by government, education authorities, libraries, profit organizations and non-profit organizations. Much money and many resources have been invested in to raise public awareness of the issues of children reading.
Therefore, the purpose of the study is to investigate the reading climate in elementary school and it is a case study of 1st and 2nd grade classes in MuZha Elementary School by interviewing 5 teachers of the class in order to gather their strategies and methods when managing the students’ reading habits and behaviors in the classes. Also the students’ behaviors of using the school library from the interviewees’ point of view are included.
The study describes the strategies and methods the teachers have done to raise the reading habits of the students. School principals, staff, teachers, and the parents or caregivers of the students have to put their efforts to build up the reading climate of the elementary school. The elementary school authorities have to actively maintain the basic infrastructure and the encouraging environment for the students to read more, such as the active roles of the principal, well-supported administrative systems, abundant reading resources, and a large number of volunteers. As for the teachers, the attitudes toward children reading affect the ways and the wills they manage the reading habits of the students in the class. The collections of the books in the classroom and students reading in the morning are the better ways that the teachers can cultivate the students’ reading habits. As for the parents or the caregivers of the students and school’s parent association, they should provide the human resources, financial support and the resources needed to support the elementary school to build up the reading climate.
Finally, the suggestions are described according to the research results for the government and education authorities, the elementary schools, parents and school’s parent association, education authorities and the public libraries.
Subjects
兒童閱讀
閱讀習慣
閱讀風氣
臺北市深耕閱讀計畫
班級經營
Children Reading
Reading Habits
Reading Climate
Children’s Cultivating Reading Plan in Taipei
Class Management
Elementary Schools
SDGs
Type
thesis
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