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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 one.
A childhood [...]

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 [...]

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。