Practices

Thematic Field: Literacy
Lifelong Readers: A European Reading Promotion Framework for
Primary School Librarians, Educators and Administrators
Comenius Multilateral Project
Institutions involved:
Κεντρο Ερευνων Πανεπιστημιο Πειραια (Greece), University Of Worcester (United
Kingdom), Biblioteka Publiczna IM.W.J. Grabskiego W Dzielnicy Ursus Mst (Poland),
County Meath Vocational Education Committee (Ireland), International Institute For
Children´s Literature and Reading (Austria), Innovade Li Ltd (Cyprus)
Coordinating institution:
Center for the ADV. of RES. & DEV in EDU. TEC. LTD (Cyprus)
Key words: Promotion of reading, Teaching skills
Description:
A lifelong learner is first and foremost a lifelong reader. Lifelong Readers (LiRe) aims
to provide school librarians, teachers, and administrators with guidance and
tools for encouraging children of ages 6-12 to develop lifelong reading habits. The
low level of young Europeans' literacy skills has been repeatedly documented, and the
EU emphasizes the need for lifelong learning.
The Lifelong Readers (LiRe) project aims to convince stakeholders about the need to
devote more time and effort to reading promotion and to place reading for pleasure
at the centre of their policies, approaches and practices, to provide stakeholders with
guidance, training, and an array of tools for reading promotion in the primary school
and to initiate change by implementing reading promotion programmes in all
participating countries.
The LiRe project builds a reading promotion framework which features: summary
descriptions of successful reading promotion programs, strategies and
approaches, an extensive collection of reading promotion actions (grouped under
categories such as Reading Promotion through Play / ICT / Volunteerism / Awards /
the Arts) reading promotion evaluation tools and a catalogue of relevant sources
and resources.
The training modules will address the reading promotion training of teachers, school
librarians, and administrators. The material will be piloted and implemented by all
partners.
Duration:
2011-2013
Webpage:
http://www.lifelongreaders.org/
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