Drop Everything And Read – DEAR – drive by a Hyderabad-based school.
HYDERABAD, Apr 11 (The CONNECT) – DEAR – Drop Everything And Read – a programme to cultivate the habit of reading, particularly among the pre-primary and primary children – has been launched by a city school.
The initiative is planned for the next Saturday at 8.30 am for about an hour, said Dr. K. Suvarna, Principal of the Bowenpally-based St. Peter’s High School.
About 800 children from Nursery to Grade V will participate in the event and the entire school campus will be turned into a reading zone.
Theme- based reading corners are being set up , where children will read books along with their parents, according to T. Alphonse Reddy, Correspondent of the school.
The school also has another distinction of having ‘Reading’ as a subject in its curriculum and a dedicated period is kept for Nursery to Class III to read books of their choice.
Reading is important because it develops the mind and gives knowledge and lessons of life. But, reading habit is slowly and steadily decreasing. Technology is impacting how we read and write.
With smartphones, tablets, and e-readers, children have become ‘screenagers'(using mobile, tablet, PC, Laptop, OTT, TV, Cinema and many other such screens). It is no big surprise that kids of the day read more digitally.
