Reading Worldwide
An exchange of experience across borders is essential and it opens new opportunities in a globalised media society as ideas for projects and synergies can be put to a worldwide use. As an information and service portal „Reading Worldwide“ intends to inspire a transfer of knowledge and provide support to multipliers in the field of reading promotion.
2012-02-23
Intercultural reading animation in Switzerland
Ambassadors of language and culture for multilingual events
The Swiss Institute for Child and Youth Media (SIKJM) provides contacts to competent reading animators who support preschool institutions, libraries and family centres in organizing events held in another or more than one language. The SIKJM has placed an information module on its website presenting suggestions for multilingual events, making them accessible to all interested parties.
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2012-02-15
The television is the No. 1 family medium in Germany
FIM study 2011 assessed communication and media use in families
Results from the recent FIM study 2011, carried out by the Media Educational Research Alliance South-West (mpfs), were presented at the conference for “Media Today” on February 2nd, 2012. While the television, radio and the internet are the media that are most commonly used in families in Germany today, books are particularly important for the younger children: parents read to, or read together with, 82 percent of the children aged three to five years.
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2012-02-08
“Reading sacks” increase reading motivation
A project of the umbrella of parent organisations in Liechtenstein schools (DEV)
Studies have reported that the interest in reading recedes in children aged nine to eleven years. Hence, people active in DEV thought about how the motivation to read might be kindled in this particular age group. In 2004 the project “reading sacks” was launched. Simple cloth bags were each filled with a book and two matching objects, and distributed to all third and fourth graders in schools in Liechtenstein from 2004 until 2006.
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