Practices

Europe: Reading is also the Future
eTwinning
Institutions involved:
Thematic Field: Literacy
Colegio de Educación Infantil y Primaria Tremañes (Spain), Circolo Didattico Statale
"G. Rodari" di Opera - Scuola dell'Infanzia "F.lli Cervi" (Italy)
Key words: Promotion of reading, Reading and writing skills, digital competence
Description:
This is a project for the creation of a children's campaign to encourage reading in
Europe and the development of a collaborative creative writing workshop. More
specifically, the aims to exchange experiences, knowledge and educational resources
related to children's literature, reading and writing initiation, school libraries and
encouraging reading, to promote pupils' self-esteem through believing in the creative
potential, to strengthen the role of literature, books and reading among the values
and interests of the pupils, to provide new literary experiences for pupils to expand
their creative skills and to strengthen positive attitudes toward books and reading.
The project involves 4 to 5 year old children in a large number of activities such as
the design of a campaign for making reading attractive, collaborative "writing",
blogging, video conferencing between the schools in Italy and Spain etc.
Throughout the project, groups of children correspond across classrooms with pupils of
the same age. They share photos, presentations, videos or games. Using a video
chat programme, the children have virtual meetings with each other. Together with
their partners, the children develop an advertising campaign in favour of reading in
Europe, making slogans, posters etc.
The project activities also include video production and collaborative writing and
illustration of a story. The story is published as a digital book on the
Internet. Children become familiar with the use of 2.0 applications for collaborative
online drawing. The blog "Parliamo di Infantile Literature" contains the project
materials and information and experiences developed by the project.
Duration:
2010-2012
Webpage:
http://www.etwinning.net/en/pub/profile.cfm?fuseaction=app.project&pid=37240
http://twinblog.etwinning.net/27772/
http://infantiltremanes.wordpress.com
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