Literacy Education through Teaching Effective Reading Strategies Erasmus Project

Project Title

Literacy Education through Teaching Effective Reading Strategies

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 : Strategic Partnerships for Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

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

Project Summary

The written word is present everywhere and therefore reading is a fundamental skill which is increasingly needed in almost every sphere of life. A wide range of reading skills, including digital reading, are essential for an individual’s personal and social fulfilment, for taking an informed and active part in society and exercising full rights of citizenship.
The PISA results bring evidence that students who master reading comprehension strategies are more proficient readers than students who do not.
The project‘s “Literacy Education through Teaching Effective Reading Strategies“ (LETTERS) main goal is:
To develop reading competences and critical thinking, through the comprehension strategies that are used in the partner countries schools, in the context of plurilingual and international education.
The realization of the project goal enables:
– To develop literacy and foreign language skills through working in the multilingual classes.
– To apply a holistic approach while learning languages, to take advantages of more common plurilingualism in nowadays classes, in this way to improve the integration of refugees, asylum seekers and migrants through education system.
– To stimulate critical thinking, to develop literacy skills taking into account of environmental and (or) cultural circumstances.
– To raise literacy in the media area and to use effectively information and communication technologies (ICT).
– To develop social, civil and intercultural skills.
Three schools are participating in the project: Kaunas Rokai gymnasium (Lithuania); National College “Vasile Alecsandri” Galati (Romania); IIS G. Malafarina, Sovierato (Italy).
The target group – 16-17 years old students.
During the Project partnership schools will analise fictional and subject texts while using certain comprehension strategies. The activities of the Project have three stages: A1 activity – the analysis of informative text.; A2 activity – the analysis of epic text; A3 activity – the analysis of drama text.
Each partnership school has chosen to organize the concrete stage of the project depending on their opportunities to give the biggest surplus value while trying to achieve the goals of the Project. IIS G. Malafarina, Sovierato (Italy) is responsible for organizing A1 activities. National College “ Vasile Alecsandri” Galati (Romania) is responsible for organizing A2 activities. Kaunas Rokai gymnasium (Lithuania) is responsible for organizing A3 activities.
Each country is responsible for organizing the concrete stage of the project: will present the analyzing text and comprehension strategies used in their school, which will be tried by partner schools; will organize transnational training; will organize dissemination event for the local community; will organize the survey for the school community, trying to attain the effects and the benefits of the project; will prepare the information report for the media about the results of the project stages (national and in English language); will prepare the recommendations about the application of the comprehension strategies (national and in English language) for the methodological publication “The application of comprehension strategies: international practice”.
During the project all students from partner schools will have the opportunity to get acquainted with original country texts (texts will be written in English language), to analyze them according to the comprehension strategy recommendations of that country. The work with the English text will develop foreign language skills. The results of text analysis – the visualization of texts, using multimedia technologies, will develop critical thinking and will let to appreciate different cultural influence for the comprehension. During transnational training time the project activities for students and teachers, while working in international teams, will imitate the work in plurilingual and multicultural class. Such practice enables teachers to distinguish the most effective work methods in plurilingual class and to gain more experience in multicultural class – to apply holistic approach while teaching languages, also to use plurilingualism which is increasingly rising in nowadays classes; in this way to consolidate the integration of immigrants, asylum seekers and refugees through the education system; also to stimulate critical thinking firstly of the subjects through training with regard to the environment and (or) cultural context. The students while working in the international teams will gain social and intercultural skills and will develop their tolerance towards foreigners. During the Project LETTERS the methodical publication “The application of text comprehension strategies: international practice” will be prepared. This publication will be disseminated in the websites of the partnership schools also on the platform of eTwinning as well as on the platform of projects of Erasmus+ and it will grant an open assess.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 55800 Eur

Project Coordinator

Kauno Roku gimnazija & Country: LT

Project Partners

• Colegiul National Vasile Alecsandri
• Istituto Tecnico Tecnologico G. Malafarina