By Ayrton Senna Institute | Ayrton Senna Institute
School Newspaper encourages children from Piaui to learn
Students of small town Água Branca, in Piauí, are playing the role of journalists during 2014. The reason is that Instituto Ayrton Senna has taken there the School Newspaper project, which aims to stimulate children to read, analyze and form their own opinion. Writing and editing a newspaper in class allow students to improve their writing and reading, besides boosting cooperation and critical thinking competencies.
In all, 1057 students from 4th to 7th grade of elementary school of 7 schools are taking part of the project. Each school will produce 3 newspaper issues over the year. In the newspaper production the teachers work on specific textual genres (opinion texts, comics, poetry, life story, based note, reader´s letter, etc.) in formats that include editorial, report news, interview, etc. Thus, students will have the chance to learn while having fun, engaged to say what they think and what they know.
“For students to produce good texts they must know what they mean, who they are writing for and which is the genre that best expresses those ideas. Reaching such goals requires hard reading and constant review, aspects that we believe will be covered by building the School Newspaper.” – says Gildon Gonçalves Lima, teacher and pedagogical coordinator of Municipal School Maria do Carmo Ennes Fonseca.
Children are thrilled with the novelty. Schools of Água Branca have been making progress in education but a great deal of work is still needed. Official assessments point out that only 33% of students have learn properly in reading and texts interpretation up to 5th grade in municipal schools system. In the state of Piaui, the index is even low: only two out of ten children of this age group know how to read and write accordingly.
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Photos credit: Neyla Siqueira dos Santos Alencar || Education Department Coordinator – Água Branca - PI
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