Classroom library activities in the kinder gardens: means for implementing Greek language curriculum goals or for developing positive attitudes to reading?
Abstract
The Greek Language Curriculum in the preschool section supports the importance of organized library settings into the kinder gardens as an effective and appropriate literacy environment. A study on the 'classroom library' as an organized place for language activities was carried out in 130 kindergartens during the school year 2003-2004. This article presents classroom library activities that took place in the kindergartens. The results reveal the successful class- library functioning as a literacy environment as well as a multifunctional medium enhancing children's love for books and reading. Various original activities took place promoting children's contacts with books. Technical and cooperational difficulties which appeared during planning and implementing activities indicate the necessity to consider developmental writing level of the individual child, group synthesis of the classroom, socioeconomic, cultural background and children's own 'capital'. Cooperation with parents was shown to be a fundamental factor for the success of a library program. Finally, the difficulties noted suggest reflection and propose engaging in alternative ways for handling a future implementation.
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Μπατσούτα (Maria Mpatsouta) Μ., Παπαγιαννίδου (Christina Papagiannidou) Χ., & Δάντη (Athina Danti) Α. (2007). Classroom library activities in the kinder gardens: means for implementing Greek language curriculum goals or for developing positive attitudes to reading?. Investigating the child’s World, 7, 70–86. https://doi.org/10.12681/icw.18224
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