An initiative to make students love reading

“Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man,” says Sir Francis Bacon.

The advantages of reading are identified to many and now, the Government of Andhra Pradesh has launched a programme ‘We love reading’ to inculcate a love for reading in students at college.

Launching the marketing campaign in Guntur throughout a programme held to mark Constitution Day on Thursday, Minister for Human Resources Development Adimulapu Suresh stated the idea of ‘We love reading’ is a barinchild of Chief Minister Y.S Jagan Mohan Reddy. It intends to inculcate the behavior of reading amongst students at an early age.

‘We love reading’, the one yr reading fluency marketing campaign takes place in 4 phases — preparatory, basis, superior and valedictory to enhance the reading expertise of kids from courses 3 to 9, he stated.

Home Minister Mekathoti Sucharita urged students to make reading of books, newspapers on a day to day foundation a behavior to acquire information and construct their very own persona. She stated the federal government prioritised the training sector and carried out varied schemes like Amma Vodi, Vidya Kanuka, Vasati Deevena, and Vidya Deevena which have tremendously elevated enrolment in authorities faculties.

Principal Secretary (college training) B. Rajasekhar, District Collector I. Samuel Ananda Kumar, Joint Collectors A.S Dinesh Kumar and P. Prasanthi and different officers have been current.

The marketing campaign goals at remodeling non-readers into readers by cultivating the behavior of reading and focuses on growing foundational literacy expertise each conceptual and skill-based information among the many students of Class 3 to 9 and intends to construct superior expertise after the inspiration. The superior expertise embody phonemic consciousness, alphabetic precept, reading fluency, vocabulary amongst others. Awareness will likely be created on utilizing e-books and digital libraries wherever infrastructure is obtainable.

Main actions

The most important actions to be taken up on this marketing campaign are classroom reading, college ebook financial institution, group reading centre, reading fests and most significantly offering two library durations, one is for Telugu reading and the opposite is for English. As a part of classroom reading, a reading nook with all of the obtainable library books and reading playing cards will likely be made obtainable in every classroom. Similarly with college ebook banks, the place books of all types will likely be collected from lecturers, students and even donors, for reading.

The programme additionally has a group reading volunteer the place the headmaster and lecturers with the assistance of ward volunteers and village secretariat employees have to determine volunteers who can contribute their time for varsity students reading marketing campaign throughout after college hours and holidays to run the group reading centre. In addition to these, month-to-month reading fests will likely be carried out on the village or college degree to carry out reading expertise by the students and to assess the achievement of studying consequence of students.

So far, about 45,359 faculties registered below the Readers Clubs and 72% of those faculties have libraries. The current college libraries and obtainable village libraries will likely be strengthened and utilised for this initiative.