Read along! - Project

Read along" project

The 2023/2024 school year starts with a number of changes for all elementary school. Among other things, the state of North Rhine-Westphalia is encouraging elementary school to attach greater importance to reading and to incorporate mandatory reading times into the timetable. Increasing reading fluency and the ability to extract meaning as well as the joy of reading are important goals.

In the course of this, the project "Read along"which the staff at the Hundertwasser School have been enthusiastically participating in since the beginning of the school year. The project is a joint offer from the school inspectorates for elementary school in the Gütersloh district, the competence team, the education office and education management, the Center for Digital Education and Schools and the Reinhard Mohn Foundation and includes various training modules that are then implemented in everyday teaching and later reflected on as part of the project.

For several weeks now, the following sentence has been heard four times a week at a fixed time throughout the school building: "We are starting to read. Fingers under "..." - 3-2-1 ...". We then read together in chorus. During this 15-20 minute reading promotion time, the children try out various reading aloud methods, such as choral reading, reading cubes or reading audio books. All methods have been proven to promote reading fluency, reading comprehension and reading motivation - the basis for all education. The progress of pupils' reading skills is measured by regular testing with the Salzburg Reading Screening in an online version.

The children can hardly wait to discover and read new texts and readings and to get to know and try out other sound reading techniques.

We are excited to see what happens next!