Practices

Bookworms/Bookworms become actors!
eTwinning
Institutions involved:
Thematic Field: Literacy
Dunston Primary School (United Kingdom), Siegerland Grundschule (Germany)
Key words: Promotion of reading, Age and gender appropriate reading material,
Digital competence
Description:
The main aim of the "Bookworms" project is to increase children's motivation to
read. Since reading is a key skill, it is important to motivate children to read and to
exploit a diversity of media.
This project allows students (10-12 years of age) to learn about the culture of their
partners through multimedia communication dealing with the fairy tales, myths,
legends and history of the partner countries. The students write about what they read
(tales, legends, fables and stories), and present their favourite books through reading
diaries, illustrations and presentation of the characters or heroes. With the help of the
Internet, they research the authors, communicate (through e.g. blog and video
conference) with their partners, and use the TwinSpace.
The activities are further developed through the additional "Bookworms become
actors" project, where pupils explore European children's literature even further,
through reading and then acting out scenes from the stories.
A final result the project hopes to achieve the improvement of pupils' native language
as well as foreign language skills; intercultural exchanges and learning, development
of pupils' multimedia competences and development of pupils' imagination through
teamwork.
Duration:
2009-2012
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