The Central Education Council (CBSE) will launch the ‘Reading Mission’, which aims to increase reading literacy among students, which is in line with the objectives of national education policy (NEP), 2020.
Speaking to the education period, Joseph Emmanuel, Director, CBSE (academics), said that “reading mission is a program designed by the CBSE to promote reading habits among students.
National Preivement Survey (NAS) conducted in 2017 revealed about one third of students Schools cannot read and write correctly.
Reading is a root competency, which leads to understanding, analyzing, interpretation, evaluation and creativity.
This campaign aims to make each student read with a minimum speed and skill.
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The CBSE reading mission will be held throughout India and Pratham books have offered school to use all their publications for free.
Target for class I students to VII, there are four modules for nurseries, kg, I and II children, there are 60 books available to read.
For class III and IV students we have 61 books while 66 books for class V and VI students.
Finally, for class VII students and VIII who are sophisticated readers, 62 book reservoirs are available for them to read and enrich.
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To promote the age of appropriate reading skills, suitable level books are also available.
The development of teacher capacity will also take place as part of this reading mission, further adds Emmanuel.
Bisang Saha, Director, CBSE, said, “Students’ reading skills vary in nature.
There are two aspects associated with them.
One of the aspects is to read text in the worldwide and others are reading and understanding the text.
The culture of reading empowering students.
If we Seeing papers questions from various competitive exams, there are long textual materials that require long reading time.
The ability to read together with the speed of reading students must be gradually enhanced.
This effort is to make students learn to read, understand, and contextualize learning through this reading mission .
Mission reading this will greatly help students to develop 21st century skills are important.
for example, if a class VIII student reading ability was found to be at the level of class III to V students, then such a scenario is quite alarming for the whole nation.
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