Lies mit! – Projekt – Hundertwasser-Schule

About the project

The "Lies mit" project is a joint initiative of the school inspectorates for elementary school in the Gütersloh district, the competence team, the education management and education office in the Gütersloh district, the Center for Education and Opportunities and the Reinhard Mohn Foundation.

We are delighted that the staff of the Hundertwasser School have unanimously agreed to take part in the "Lies mit" project in the Gütersloh district in the 2023/24 school year and will take part in the training sessions with other elementary school within 18 months. The core idea of the project is the systematic promotion of reading as part of a school development project that is supported by all colleagues.

The Detailed objectives are as follows:

All pupils taught at the same level achieve the standard range of the Salzburg reading screening in the first semester of fourth grade.
Pupils with special needs at the participating school improve their reading speed by regularly taking part in reading training during their primary school years.
The teachers implement the reading training in the fourth school year at the latest after the start of participation in the project.
The project will be piloted with five elementary school from the coming school year. These schools applied to take part following an information and testing event.

The structure of the offer

Teachers from the participating elementary school take part in seven modules over the course of 18 months. which cover the following topics:
Reading fluency, diagnosis and five sound reading methods: Choral reading, dice reading, tandem reading, reading with an audio book and read-aloud theater.

Each module consists of:

a movie, exchange about the movie and planning the realization
in the year team
Implementation of the read aloud method
Inter-school exchange
Test with the Salzburg Reading Screening in a free online version
Discussion of the results in the year team.

If you would like more detailed information, you can find it here the movie about the project:
https://youtu.be/Q9TwVTWEg60?list=PL5LYbSLXzQs-pIlZO-9nmDxBdt5-eU7Qp

"Read along" at the Hundertwasser school

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: "Let's start reading. 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 - in other words, the basis for all education. Pupils' progress in reading skills is recorded through 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!

Read along! - Project

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