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On April 7th, RCEF was fortunate to invite 26 teachers, students, and parents from Trinity School in Menlo Park, California to the city of Yongji to visit Guan Ai School and Xiaochao School. The experience that made the deepest impression on me was my discussion with Librarian Becky Zeren. From that conversation I gathered some [...]

This post was written by Xiaochun Li, a first grade teacher at Guan Ai Primary School. She is part of a team of teachers and RCEF staff who work on the library and reading program at the school. 以下的博客是关爱小学的李晓春老师写的。她是学校图书和阅读项目的一名负责人。 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [...]

Developing and teaching a bookmaking class at Guan Ai School this past summer was an incredibly rewarding experience for me. I love teaching and took advantage of the summer vacation to develop a ten day activity class at the school. Though I developed the curriculum, most important to the class was my partnership with two [...]

Ms. Wang is the first grade Chinese teacher. She likes to tell stories to students. Here is a blog post she wrote: Young faces, rising voices, enthusiastic hand movements. All of these show their happy and enriched childhoods, increased interest in reading, and improved speaking and presentation skills. A childhood without reading is a dry [...]

Last year, construction at Guan Ai Primary School began with the building of two new wood buildings donated by Canada Wood, a non-profit organization. The two buildings are being used as offices for the teachers and RCEF staff members so they have space to design lesson plans, attend trainings, and reflect on their teaching. This [...]

中文翻译在英文后面。RCEF has donated books for libraries in six rural schools and communities. On July 18, teachers from two of those sites, Henan Dayang and Shandong Guozhuang Elementary Schools, gathered at Guan Ai Elementary School for a sharing meeting. Another participant, Huang Yaxiong, used his own money to start a small lending collection for his middle [...]

I’ve just returned from a visit to Guozhuang village, where a brand new RCEF-sponsored library was just opened. The village had held a “book giving ceremony” as part of the Chinese New Year festivities. Afterwards, the village committee invited booklovers in the village to come together and decide how to encourage reading in the village. [...]

我们在关爱小学所作的阅读项目应该算是一种尝试。在农村一线的这段时间，我们发现仅在乡村小学建立图书馆，而不辅以相对应的措施与学校的配合，则几乎会是一种无用功。问题在于农村儿童由于经济状况、家庭培养，社区氛围等原因，极少数会有读书的习惯与能力。与其说读书的习惯与能力，不如说能不能坐下读一页书的能力，答案是几乎没有。大多数的学生对书的渴求完全来自于好奇心与“好玩”，所以借阅制度是小问题；而能不能让学生们真正去读进去一本书才是真正的困难，也只有克服这个关卡，随后相关的制度等延伸问题才变得有意义。那么如何解决这个问题我们做了相应的尝试： 第一， 最重要的一点，就是要选择适合该年龄阶段儿童的读物。我们发现有些学校里本身有的读物根本就不适合孩子们阅读。我们有几个选择的标准，比如说：很大的画，较少的字；故事内容吸引人；带拼音；低年级的书要很薄，等等。只有这样，才能为孩子们阅读能力从0到1打下基础。