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UG, Courts Guyana Inc. host annual ‘Reading is Fun’ programme

Aug 30, 2015 News

– Urge parents to engage in story telling, reading to their children

Reading is pertinent to helping students improve their literacy and communication skills. Experts say reading to children at the early stages of life will help them develop a love for words and vocabulary.
Against this backdrop, the University of Guyana in collaboration with Courts Guyana Incorporated hosted their 11TH annual “Reading is Fun,” programme.
Structured under the theme for the Developing Skills in Reading for Life Empowerment, the three weeks programme facilitated 52 children between the ages of 8 -13 years.
Throughout the programme, activities were aimed at motivating the children’s love for reading.
The programme concluded on Friday with a formal ceremony at the University of Guyana, and the young participants, who hailed from the Cummings Lodge and Sophia, Greater Georgetown, were awarded certificates of appreciation.
Offering an overview of the reading project, Senior Assistant Librarian of the Readers Services Division of the University of Guyana, (UG) Juneann Garnett  noted that this year, in addition to the regular emphasis being placed on improving the reading, writing, comprehensive and speaking skills, the children were introduced to another dimension of the programme; West Indian literature.
According to Garnett, the children were introduced to this type of literature through storytelling.  She said that for the first time, some children heard of Guyanese Folklore such as “Ole man pappy.”
In this same vein, the UG official noted the importance of storytelling, and recommended that parents and guardians engage in this practice with their children regularly.
According to Garnett, storytelling and reading to children are more important since it is becoming clear that increased exposure to new communication and information technology is not only robbing our children of their imaginative skills but also their interest and knowledge of local culture and heritage.
As such, she noted that parents should not allow children to take digital devices to bed but instead read bedtime stories to them, limit their television time, buy them books as gifts, create a reading timetable and let them join a library.
Meanwhile, evaluating the success of the programme, the facilitator underscored that children ages 8- 10 were able to read at their level and write well structured sentences, while a few others, ages 10 -13 were reading below their level.
Speaking in general, she said however that the teachers, which included lecturers and students of UG’s Faculty of Education indicated that the programme was successful; the students had a boost of self confidence as they were encouraged to share their ideas and were given positive feedback.
Finance Director of Courts Guyana Inc, Neil Boucher in his brief remarks stated that the company is pleased to be associated with such a venture and will continue to offer its support in this regard.

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