Bookworms of Europe

4th MeetingBarcelona/ Catalunia/Spain

20th to 24th April 2015

Successful and ongoing projects

St.-Georg- MittelschuleAugsburg/ Germany

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Reading – learning – scenario:students work in groups on various aspects of a chapter of a book (history, music, cloth, characters, …)

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Reading diaries: students document their readingMark Twain “Tom Sawyer”

For every chapter students work at- unknown words - voluntarily selfmade pictures- characters - resume of the whole book- summary

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“ZiSch”: daily newspaper at school

Learning about• different kinds of news• making a newspaper• the structure of a newspaper

Students work at• one newspaper article compulsary and one voluntarily• unknown words• summery of one article

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“Gedanken-Gedichte-Gedankendichte“: poetry reading and writing as a way to express feelings. At the end a book was published with poems and fotos written respectively taken by students of a 9th grade.

Students• read some poems • learn about different kinds of poems and interpretation• write poems about farewell, new beginning, life and future

Ongoing projects

• Motherlanguage Reading: Parents read out in mother-languages f.e. italian, englisch, turkish …

• “Antolin”-Competition: German internet reading community • “2-4-1” (two for one):Second graders prepare a reading bag

for first graders• “Reading Dog”: students read out to a special educated dog• Magazine project: offer of different magazines • “heartbeat”: writing competition “Herzklopfen” published

as a book • Rotaries, who have donated the “Leseinsel”, read out• Athlets read out

Ongoing projects

• Reading night: a class spends a night together at school, reading, playing, … .

• Week of reading projects• "Ich schenk dir eine Geschichte" („ I give you a story as a gift“)• Worldwide Day of books• Nationwide reading day• Book safari in bookstores: students have to fulfill tasks in

several book stores to get a book for free• “Bookworms of St.-Georg”: media workshop 8th grade• A lot of projects with the New Public Library and our

“Leseinsel”

Conclusions

Due to the results of the questionaire we started a lot of projects to motivate and convince students.

Students don´t read because of other medias • Implementations: owlfinch; Antolin,

• Experience: The combination of modern medias, like Internet, and reading motivates students. But their main motive is playing games. They are not interested in literature and international cooperation/ communication but in collecting points for quizes. So at our school they enjoy “Antolin” more than “owlfinch”.

Conclusions

Students don´t read because it´s boring • Implementations: Reading events; reading night; summer

reading club; book safari; “Papyrus”; “Heartbeat”; Romeo and Juliet; “Ich schenk dir eine Geschichte”; “Bookworms of St.-Georg

• Experience: Those activities are very motivating. Students love to take part and to act out their creativity in painting, writing and acting. We want to continue and widen out reading events.

ConclusionsStudents don´t read because of lack of comprehension• Implementations: “Stikk”; Salzburger Screening• Experience: At the beginning it is a hard work to

implement a habitual using of dictionaries. Students don´t read because there are little reading models at home • Implementations: VIPs as roll models: Athlets, local

Politians and Rotaries read out• Experience: Those activities are very motivating. Students

love to take part because they get in close contact to people they know from medias.

Conclusions

Due to gender and age students need a guidance to adaequate literature • Implementations: all activities in NPL and “Leseinsel”; class

literature; teachers training

• Experience: The teacher has to know the interests, the standard of lingual abilities and reading skills of the students to select adaequate literature. Even reading classics could be fun!

Nevertheless nowadays it´s a hard work to guide students to books because of the rivalry of other medias.

Thank you for your attention

and two years of…

… working,

… fun,

… eating,

and sightseeing

… with a great team!

We will miss you and never say good bye!!!

Ingrid, Cathrin, Elke and Winni