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First Year Reading Habits and Attitudes 2013

First Year Reading Habits and Attitudes 2013. St. Pauls Secondary School, Greenhill’s. Aim of Project. The promotion and development of Literacy: Students LEADING “Research” from the Bottom up

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First Year Reading Habits and Attitudes 2013

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  1. First Year Reading Habits and Attitudes 2013 St. Pauls Secondary School, Greenhill’s.

  2. Aim of Project The promotion and development of Literacy: Students LEADING “Research” from the Bottom up Integrating the use of ICT a Second Year committee was purposively selected to gather analyse and present data on First Year Reading habits and attitudes.

  3. Student Learning Objectives To develop teamwork, communication, peer mentoring and presentation skills. To enhance literacy, numeracy (statistics) and ICT Skills. To develop basic research skills – information gathering and design of survey instrument. Students should know how to report research findings.

  4. Project Design

  5. Design online Questionnaire Review Literature Conduct Survey Analyse, communicate and Present.

  6. Survey Instrument: Online Questionnaire

  7. Communication and presentation of findings Oral: 5th Year Literacy Committee and school Literacy coordinator. School Notice-Board Website (Independent), click Here

  8. Leadership Collaborative Pyramid Staff Literacy Committee 5th yr. Literacy Committee First Year Respondents

  9. There was a 99% response rate by First Years. Key Statistics 84%agreed that reading is important. 71%agreed that reading is a skill for life. 63%enjoyed reading.

  10. Key Statistics Cont. 56% agreed that reading is fun. 47%agreed that reading teaches them how other people live. 44%agreed that reading helps them understand the World. 36% reported that their reading time has decreased in recent years.

  11. The Importance of reading: First Year comments “It helps you learn.” “It helps to improve your English and your imagination.” “It helps your speech…[and] writing… it helps me when I make stories.” “It broadens your mind and improves your vocabulary.” “It improves spelling and grammar and you learn new things.”

  12. The Importance of reading: First Year comments cont. “It helps you with words and spelling.” “It helps us with literacy.” “It…opens up our minds.” “[To] get a good job.” “It helps you to spell and read more quickly and better.”

  13. Some First year comments about reading “I enjoy books”. “I liked reading ever since I learned to read what was written on the stop sign”. “If the book looks good”. “My dad kept nagging me to read. I started and now I really like it”

  14. Some First year comments about reading cont. “People are saying other books are good so I decided to read them”. “It takes you somewhere else”. “I couldn’t sleep so my mam said to read…”

  15. First Years: Favourite authors J.J.R. Tolkein Jacqueline Wilson Cassandra Clare Suzanne Collins John Steinbeck Meg Cabot Victor Hugo Stephenie Meyer J.K Rowling Nicholas Sparks EoinColfer Michael Lawrence

  16. Other activities that would promote First Years to read “Family reading time” “Apps on my phone” “Reading with friends” “Reading book reviews” “Creating and writing own books”

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