Paliwal, Anchala
(2017)
Rethinking reading.
Language and Language Teaching, 6 (1).
pp. 76-77.
ISSN 2277-307X
Abstract
Researchers largely agree that reading is not
just an aid to acquire learning but it is an
important means to facilitate thinking and
therefore, enables an enhanced understanding
of society and its problems. A holistic notion
of education includes the ability to read with
comprehension, as a necessary pre requisite.
So there is a need to refashion 'reading' as
ability and encourage a suitable reading
habit. Efforts for the same will make a more
profound impact if started at the elementary
level of education.
As a remarkable endeavour to achieve this is
the Reading Development Cell set up by
National Council of Educational Research
and Training (NCERT). The End-term
Survey Report: Mathura Pilot Project
2012-2013 prepared by Early Literacy
Programme, Department of Elementary
Education, NCERT provides these details.
“NCERT had set up a Reading Development
Cell in the year 2007 under Sarva Shiksha
Abhiyan with support of the Ministry of
Human Resource Development. The
creation of this Cell marked the beginning of
a significant attempt to focus the attention of
policy makers and curriculum designers all
over the country on the pedagogy of reading
in the early classes.” (p. iii, Report)
The highpoint of this programme is that it
“emphasizes on using children's literature in
the classroom to provide children with an
environment conducive to reading.” (p. iii,
Report) This renewed focus on children's
literature is noteworthy.
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