1. The document describes an educational project at the Dolishniy Shepit Educational Complex in Vyzhnytsia district, Chernivtsi region, Ukraine. 2. The project aims to engage students in effective independent reading of English books to increase reading skills, develop critical thinking, and foster a love of reading. 3. Activities included students surveying reading preferences, obtaining books from a book aid organization, using online tools like ePal and eTwinning, and creating presentations, crosswords, poems and other works responding to what they read.

1. Dolishniy Shepit Educational Complex
Vyzhnytsia district, Chernivtsi region
My monthlybookfor fun
Done by Klymchuk M.O.
teacher of English

2. Participants
•Practice-orientedType
•Educatingthrough its
content
•Group of 5-10By number of
participants
Subjects
By time
English, ICT, Art
Students of 5-11 grades
Long-term

3. Project Relevance
Reading is one of the main language activities as stated in
the Common European Framework.
The State Educational Standards of the basic and
complete secondary education and new syllabi
Reading is one of the main tasks at EIT (External
Independent Testing)
Reading develops and enlarges the active and passive
vocabulary of the students.

4. DrivingQuestion
How can we
make reading in foreign language
more exciting?

5. the Aim of the project
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2
3
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engage students into the process of
reading English books effectively
increase independent
reading
develop creativity and
critical thinking
nurture love for reading
and tolerance to
preferences of the others

6. Objectives directly learned or taught through doing
the project
implement various Internet search techniques
extend the amount of age appropriate independent reading
understand the content of the authentic texts of different genres & styles
pick out the main thought or idea of the author & the problem touched
generalize the obtained information, come to conclusion
use different features and tools of presentation software

7. At the end of the projectSWBAT:
Work in pairs and groups effectively
Obtain and generalize the information properly
Make an age appropriate presentation or publication
Present the results in a short and clear way
Overcome foreign language speaking barrier
Enlarge active English vocabulary a lot

8. The partners of the project
Sauter Abigail, Peace Corps Volunteer
2010-2012
Darien Book Aid Plan
http://www.darienbookaid.org/
In existence since 1949, it is a non-profit, all volunteer
organization that builds a foundation of peace,
understanding, and friendship through the free
distribution of books.

9. Project implementation
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• DIAGNOSTICALLY-CONCEPTUAL or
• PREPARATORY
2
• ORGANIZATION and
• IMPLEMENTATION
3
• OUTCOMES and
• EVALUATION

10. Thefirst stage products
Survey analysis
Books supply
Detailed plan of activities
ePal website registration
E-Twinning Plus website registration

11. 57 21
Surveyresults 70
62
55
37 17
46
30 54

12. Books supply

13. ePal and e-Twinning registration

14. Implementation stage
Theoretical
block
Practical block
Creative
integration
block

15. Students Teacher
google necessary information
look up the unknown words
compose a crossword
use PP, Publisher, Photostory and Skype
write acrostics
Add the material about the project on a blog page
Theoretical block
gets to know a lot of
different reading
strategies and
activities

16. Practical block
Students Teacher
monitors,
helps,
supports
do the
activities

17. Thesecond stage products
The list of books
Information and communication,
thinking and reasoning, personal
workplace skills improvement

18. Thethird stage products
A project page at a school blog
A hand-made and drawn picture dictionary to the book read.
Set of crosswords
Set of acrostics
PPP “New faces”
Video interviews with native speakers
“A minute of poetry” publication
A booklet “More poems of the author”
Videos of acting out
An audio bank

19. Evaluation rubrics
Reflective learning log
CollaborativeWorkSkills rubric,
Group Collaboration rubric
Interview rubric
NACollaboration rubric
NAMultimediaPresentation rubric
Participation Rubric
Research Report rubric
Teachers Weekly Observation rubric
Collaboration rubric
Oral presentation rubric
Peer evaluation rubric
Project debrief

20. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_European_Framework_of_Reference_for_Languages
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PhVEoAeWbk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMCZvGesRz8
http://wveis.k12.wv.us/teach21/public/project/MainMenu.cfm?tsele1=3&tsele2=105
http://www.cricksoft.com/uk/products/clicker/home.aspx
http://elearnmag.acm.org/featured.cfm?aid=1667453
http://www.studentguide.org/the-complete-guide-to-project-based-learning/
Resources

21. Thank you
for your patience
and your attention