Nationwide Reading Day 2022 on the Kleve Campus
More than 70 fourth-graders from the Willibrord School visited the university on November 18th 2022 to listen to and experience stories together with students from the Childhood Education programme on Read Aloud Day.
In three small groups, the students chose a book suitable for the class animals of "their" class, selected exciting passages and developed creative, activating impulses for the children. They transformed the seminar rooms into a forest area, an investigation office and a water world according to the content. One group read out a whale story and brought several languages into play, the other two groups chose children's detective stories set in the forest. The children looked for clues, tried to solve cases and created bookmarks at the end.
Children as well as class teachers were impressed by the university, everyone listened spellbound and participated. The students bravely embarked on the read-aloud adventure and did a great job, they encouraged the children to participate and got them excited about books!
All three classes will be given the read-aloud books at the end of the read-aloud event to read on and share with the other classes. Who knows, maybe they will even read them to younger children at their school, just as they were read to here?
"We are very pleased that the good cooperation with Willibrord Primary School enables our students to test theoretically gained research findings on the promotion of reading, multilingualism and diversity in practice with primary school children," says lecturer Renate Schmitz-Gebel, thanking those involved.
