Teach Middle East Magazine March-April 2016 Issue 4 Volume 3 | Page 31

Featured Teacher students need to improve their literacy in both reading and writing. How successful have these programmes been in raising the literacy level of students? Our literacy standards have always been of a good standard but over the last eighteen months, we have ‘raised the bar’ and are seeing the results of putting these programmes into effect, ensuring they consistently occur on a daily basis. This year, we are seeing that a lot more reading is happening daily with the students being allocated a regular period of independent reading time of at least 15 – 20 minutes. We are already seeing an increase in the literacy standards throughout the school. What steps does the school take in developing a love for reading for pleasure amongst students? What technology has the school utiliz Y[