Promotion of Reading

The Educator Assistant (EA):

• helps to set up the reading corner in the classroom.
• supports the educator to implement Drop all and Read activities weekly.
• assists the educator with learner preparation for participation in reading promotion competitions/ activities such as spelling bees, language festivals, readathons, creative writing competitions etc.
• helps the educator to administer vocabulary extension activities, oral reading fluency activities as well as reading comprehension activities to enhance reading proficiency.
• assists the educator with classroom management issues related to pre-reading, during-reading and post reading activities.observes learners during prepared reading, unprepared reading, reading aloud, shared reading, group guided reading, independent reading, summary writing activities, notes findings and informs the educator on the learners who are experiencing challenges in reading for remedial purposes.

The Educator Assistant (EA):

• assists with participation in national literacy promotion activities such as world book day, literacy week, library week etc.
• helps the educator to manage the reading card used to record books with prescribed number of pages that learners should read per day/ week for enjoyment purposes as part of the extended reading programme.
• assists the educator to make the class print-rich by displaying interesting newspaper and magazine articles on the classroom walls and encouraging learners to read them by asking questions about them on a daily basis.
• supports the educator to ensure that learners read the prescribed literature genres for semester 1 (i.e. Poetry, Folktales and Novel) and semester 2 (i.e. Poetry, Short stories and Drama) for the purposes of formal text study in set work.