DEVELOPING LITERACY AND LANGUAGE SKILLS OF STUDENTS Erasmus Project

Project Title

DEVELOPING LITERACY AND LANGUAGE SKILLS OF STUDENTS

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

As the year 2018 has been stated as the European Year of Cultural Heritage, we decided to create the project which aims at promoting and raising awareness of Europe’s cultural heritage among pupils aged 7-11.
“DEVELOPING LITERACY AND LANGUAGE SKILLS OF STUDENTS” project comprised schools from 5 European Countries –Italy, Portugal, Bulgaria, Turkey, and Poland.
The project was based on the needs which were identified by all the partners. The most important ones include the need to reduce students’ tendency to stay withdrawn and introverted as well as the need to overcome aggressive and antisocial behaviour and to increase cultural knowledge and emphasise the meaning of freedom of thought and speech. It is our aim to provide students with the essential knowledge that will enable them to integrate into a multi-ethnic society and we also want to encourage interest for self-development and make the schools curriculum more international.
The project also aimed at promoting the European cultural heritage among our students in the form of a link between things that fascinate children and the need to get them to improve their success at school. Stories will stand for a key element by means of which students’ interest in the project topic was raised in a safe way and that is why they were motivated to take part in the project activities. It is students’ nature to love stories, fairy tales and myths. Stories have been created to pass universal values and show the world in an enjoyable and memorable way. They helped develop children’s creativity, imagination, empathy, respect, tolerance and appreciation for people from different countries and cultures.
Our goals included:
– developing literacy competences and creativity of students from 5 European schools
– improving awareness of similarities and differences of 5 European cultures
– increasing students’ willingness to express their thoughts and feelings
– encouraging using the storytelling technique in all fields of the curriculum

To attain the project goals, we planned to carry out the following activities which are based on the VARK model and address all types of learners:
-visual learners: logo, Erasmus+ corners digital stories, questionnaires, bookmarks and wrist bands
-aural learners: group discussions, chat on Facebook page and eTwinning Platform, exchanges of emails.
-read/write learners: presentations (PowerPoint), scripts for Puppet plays, stories for the magazines, dictionary, brochures, flyers.
-kinaesthetic learners: carnival, materials made during the Stories Arts & Crafts workshops.
The above-mentioned activities motivated our students to succeed at school and it involved students from migrant backgrounds; we strengthened the collaboration among schools-families and schools-external stakeholders.
50 teachers increased their awareness of the importance of adjusting teaching materials to different learning styles represents the direct target group. Students, families and local communities stand for the indirect target groups.
The tangible results included:
-questionnaires from Bulgarian team
-the project logo Bulgarian logo wins the competition
-Erasmus+ corners created in each partner school: Project website https://sites.google.com/view/code-project-2018-1-it02-ka229/home
-presentations of the partner schools, cities and countries, presentations of educational system and culture
-presentations of national legends, fairy tales, stories and myths
-5 digital stories
Italian: The tale of the storks and the snakes
Bulgarian: Sofia the princess
Turkish: The Liar Shepherd;
Polish: The Legend of Mińsk Mazowiecki church.
Portuguese: “The three rivers legend”, “The Barcelos Rooster legend mixed”

-1 exhibition promoting the materials made at the Stories Arts & Crafts workshops(Polish exhibition)
-5 scripts for 5 Puppet plays
Italian: The tale of Romulus and Remus
Bulgarian: The enormous turnip
Turkish: Karagöz and Hacivat are at Erasmus Project
Polish: The legend of Lech, Czech and Rus.
Portugal: “The Barcelos Rooster legend mixed”

-1 thematic carnival (with the characters from the stories, fairy tales, myths, etc.). We had a virtual meeting on 14th, 21th May 2021 and 7th June 2021
-dictionary (English-Italian, English- Polish, English- Portuguese, English- Bulgarian, English- Turkish)
-2 project magazines ( Turkey)
-10 lesson plans (https://read.bookcreator.com/bFUXfxVcCaQUFh1Ri6pySdP21yz1/_Whuo0I8Q7WkzBFNdOHxkA)
-3 project web pages
1. Googlesite Poland link: https://sites.google.com/view/code-project-2018-1-it02-ka229/home?authuser=0
2.Twinspace (Italy) link: https://twinspace.etwinning.net/71757/home
( Guest NA- Username: agenzia.nazionale.erasmus Password: progettoka229)
3. Facebook Project page link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/733357777018562/
-promotional materials: bookmarks, flyers, wrist bands (all the partners)
-the project e-brochure (Italy)
-the project video on a USB key (Portugal).
The project methodology aimed at producing teaching materials that will increase teachers’ motivation to use digital and non-digital innovative practices, enhance their teaching methods promoting literature and help pupils to develop the key competences useful for living in multicultural societies. Due to the activities, social cohesion will be fostered by developing literacy skills, creativity, innovation, ICT skills, social cultural competences, civic spirit, intercultural skills and the competence-based learning.
The project website includes the project results that everybody can access and download for free. The dissemination plan reached a larger audience and it made an impact on a local, regional, national and international levels.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 135425,67 Eur

Project Coordinator

DIREZIONE DIDATTICA STATALE “G. MARCONI” & Country: IT

Project Partners

• CEBECI SULTANCIFTLIGI ILKOKULU
• Szkola Podstawowa im. Tadeusza Kosciuszki w Cygance
• Agrupamento de Escolas de Vialonga
• 52 primary school ‘Tsanko Tserkovski’