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3 . E x a m p l e s o f g o o d p r a c t i c e
3. Examples of good practice
Mother tongue teachers and foreign languages teachers as well as school librarians conduct
numerous activities at their schools to promote reading and understanding different reading
strategies. Project partners have prepared some of the examples with the aim of exchanging
ideas and their future use at their schools.
3.1 An example from Primary school “Podrute”, Croatia
During the school year 2016/2017, Primary school “Podrute” had a contest in reading aloud
with the aim of encouraging the students to read. The students’ mentors were Croatian
teachers and primary school teachers for younger students. The students were very
interested in taking part.
This contest is aimed towards primary school students (grade 3 to 8) in The Republic of
Croatia.
The aims of this contest are:
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encouraging and promoting reading as well as reading aloud
developing affection towards books and reading as a good way to spending free time
promoting the students’ reading abilities
pointing out that reading is the basis for lifelong education
encouraging oral expression
developing motivational capacities
Organisers:
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Initiators: National library Vlado Gotovac, Sisak
On school levels: schools and school libraries
On town levels: cooperation between town and school libraries
On county levels: county libraries in cooperation with town and school libraries
On a national level: National library Vlado Gotovac, Sisak in cooperation with towns,
counties, media and publishers
Contest categories
1 Younger category: for students grade 3, 4 and 5
2 Older category: for students grade 6, 7 and 8
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