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The Library’s Reading Programme for children currently underway at the Juvenile Department of the National Library has been functioning for over five years.It has as its main aim, improving the literacy skills of young children over the summer holidays.The programme began on Monday, and will run for five weeks. Students are taught by volunteers who are teachers by profession and teenagers who share a passion for teaching young children.The children are benefiting from daily activities such as practices in sentence enhancement, vocabulary, phonics, Mathematics, Science, Art,Wholesale Jerseys China, Craft and learning to use the English dictionary.The classes are divided into two categories according to the respective ages of the children.In the lower classes the children learn to read through flash cards, sight words and word search puzzles.Karen James, one of the volunteers who is also a Home Economics teacher at the St. Joseph High School, said, “Children are more interested in watching the television than reading and doing their homework so we are trying to reintroduce reading as a fun activity in the lives of our young generation.” Mrs. James explained that this year there has been a massive attendance, greater than the previous years.Children from some of Guyana’s top primary schools are on this year’s register. She added that some students come from areas as far as Soesdyke.Margaret Suffrien, another volunteer who is a teacher at the Adults Education Association, stated that she enjoys working with children.Apart from the daily activities, she teaches her class to exercise good behavioral patterns that would assist them in developing everyday patterns of respecting each other as individuals in society. |