The Reading Facilitation Training Programme is the inhouse training programme designed to support the growth and professional development of the reading teachers. It introduces research backed pedagogical and teaching strategies to effectively engage children into developing their skills to read, write and promote love for books.
The training is led by Reshma Thapa-Gurung, the director of the foundation who is also a teacher trainer, children’s writer and an educator by profession. The training began in March 2021 with the purpose to build capacity for our team to support the reading and writing abilities of the children who came to the library and those connected through the Reading For Joy.
The training is centered around strategies that would provide a stress-free learning environment. Child-centered methods and hands-on learning activities are used to focus on active learning and understanding rather than rote learning. The children are encouraged to raise questions and share their thoughts and ideas. The activities designed are based on reading levels to provide focused reading support.
key reading strategies and assessment tools applied by the reading teachers;
It is a strategy to introduce reading to young children. It is considered as the single most important reading activity to produce successful readers. The strategy is the friendliest way to help children read, comprehend and think critically.
An engaging and effective reading activity which encourages the reader to put aside all distractions and enjoy reading books together.
All About Today is a fun activity that allows the children to write about what they learnt during the DEAR activity which helps in putting their thoughts and ideas into words and improving their writing and creative art skills.
It is an interactive and instructional approach where children share the reading of a book while being guided and supported by a teacher. The teacher models skills of proficient readers with fluency and expression while making use of big books with enlarged prints and illustrations.
A strategy to build vocabulary in children. The instructions are drawn from Robert Marzano’s six steps to vocabulary instruction.
A method that was recently introduced. It is a way of teaching how to read and write in an alphabetic language through letter and sound relationship. It helps a child blend the sounds of letters to decode unfamiliar sounding words.
It is a strategy for developing reading fluency where children read parts or dialogues in the scripts or text used for the lesson. It helps children to read and enact confidently with expression.
Reading assessments is a tool access and understand reading levels of children. It helps the teachers to support and design reading interventions accordingly.
Free write is a method to improve writing skills in children to break free from the fear of writing. Prompts are given to help them write freely with confidence.
It is an effective reading activity in which the teacher and children read aloud an engaging text where children are encouraged to identify issues and formulate questions. And the group discuss and propose possible answers to the questions raised.
The activity involves children mapping and drawing chambers on a blank heart sheet. It enourages introspection and expressing their feelings and memories.
It is a writing activity where children are asked to write about themselves which helps them to know about themselves in a better way.
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DG Reading Room Resource and Education Foundation
Dumigaon, Assangthang,
Namchi, South Sikkim - 737126
