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Buddy Reading

The best way to improve students’
understanding of English and build their
vocabulary is to foster a love of reading.
The more they read, the more they improve
their language ability and confidence. In
order to nurture this reading culture among
our students, we have set up a mentoring
programme – Buddy Reading – to help boost
our students’ confidence in reading.

These sessions run during lunch recess in the English Wonderland.
Our English Ambassadors and younger students, and even peers,
are paired together as “buddies” to read aloud to each other.
Reading aloud helps students connect the written with the spoken
language, improves their reading rate and rhythm, and lets them
experience the pleasure of reading together.

The reading buddies take turns choosing the books, either from
the ones available in the English Wonderland for KS1 or the e-books
available on the Oxford Owl Reading Scheme for KS2. Buddy
reading shares the work between the pair, encourages support for
each other and, more importantly, increases confidence. It can thus
benefit both students’ reading and listening skills, aiming towards
increased fluency.

With this Buddy Reading mentorship programme, we hope to
cultivate the students’ interest and enjoyment in reading English
texts. We also hope to enhance their social skills by developing
support, trust and friendship between the buddies.

Rajni V. Bharwaney

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