Preparing tasks for students’ reading literacy development

Reading literacy is not just about flipping through a book, looking at pictures, it is the ability to think critically about what you read, sifting through a vast amount of information, and applying it to your own life.

As part of the vacation school’s activities, Örken East Kazakhstan Regional Scientific and Methodological Center for Informatization and Education Development of Education Administration of East Kazakhstan region, jointly with a teacher of physics of NIS of Chemistry and Biology of Ust-Kamenogorsk city Gulmira Zh. Zhukokova, held a workshop on the topic: “Preparing tasks for students’ reading literacy development” for teachers of the Russian language and literature of schools with the Russian language of instruction of the region.

The goal of the workshop was to provide methodological support to teachers in preparing students to developing functional reading literacy skills.

The objectives of the workshop: to develop the ability to understand task instructions to the text; to instill skills for general orientation within the content of texts and grasping the overall meaning of what is read; to reduce/eliminate gaps in students’ abilities when analyzing texts of different styles and genres; to develop skills in finding information in texts, text interpretation, reflecting on the content of the text, reflecting on the form of the text; to develop problem solving skills.

Using these recommendations will help teachers to create their own tasks in preparing students for the International Study (PISA) and developing reading literacy.