Dangling Primary School in Lhuentse Dzongkhag, Bhutan was facing major problems with students' English skills, including difficulty reading, pronouncing words, and speaking English. To address this, the school implemented several initiatives focused on building reading habits and practice. This included maintaining reading logs, conducting literary activities, increasing library books, doing buddy reading, teaching rhymes, creating a reading room, and holding language days. As a result, students' reading skills, accent, participation, and interest in communicating in English improved. However, challenges remained such as preference for the local dialect and lack of resources and exposure.

1. DANGLING PRIMARY SCHOOL
LHUENTSE DZONGKHAG
OUR STORY OF CHANGE- “ENJOY READING”

2. FEEL-SPOKEN ENGLISH: A
MAJOR PROBLEM
MAJOR PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED..
 Difficulty in reading
 Difficulty in pronouncing
 Low performance in English
 Difficulty in spoken language

3. SO WE IMAGINED TO..
 Build reading habits by maintaining reading log
 Conduct focused literary activities
 Have active literary members
 Increase number of library books
 Carry out buddy reading and model reading
 Teach at least twenty rhymes to classes PP-II
 Create reading rooms
 Maintain reading articles on the literary boards
 Propose to DES for sound system to give them practice
 Construct podium for the students to practice reading
and speaking
 Stress more on campus language and observe
language day

4. DO- ALLOCATED READING PERIOD AND
MONITORED THE MAINTAINING OF READING LOG

5. CARRIED OUT BUDDY READING TWICE A
WEEK

6. BOUGHT MORE NUMBER OF LIBRARY BOOKS AND
CREATED A SMALL READING ROOM DESPITE THE
SHORTAGE OF ROOMS

7. CONSTRUCTED CEMENTED PODIUM FOR STUDENTS
TO PRACTICE THEIR SPEECH AND READING

8. OBSERVED LANGUAGE DAY-ENGLISH SPEECH(THU/FRI),
CLASSES PP-II-RHYMES(WED)
SATURDAY-READING ALOUD—

9. CONDUCTED LITERARY ACTIVITIES AND DISPLAYED
ARTICLES REGULARLY ON THE LITERARY BOARDS
FOR STUDENTS TO READ

10. BOUGHT SOUND SYSTEM WITH THE SUPPORT
FROM DES

11. BENEFITS
 Enhanced reading habits
 Active participation
 Improved children’s accent and their reading skills
 Started taking interest in communicating through
English
 Help in improving their speaking skills and the
performance in English.

12. CHALLENGES
 More inclined towards local dialect
 Have to monitor regularly
 More interested towards Dzongkha
 Lack of resource
 Less exposure
 Parental background
 Lack of support
Share
We shared our story of change to two nearby
primary schools and DES

13. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
You have really changed us through your sharing.
Thank you Baptong Primary School and ELC for
making us the agent of change.
We build on your strength and happy to know that
together we can make a difference…..A difference
leading to eternity.