Dear readers,
DEAR ( Drop Every thing And Read ) is a kind of program which can be used as improving the students reading ability especially for Junior High school students. I got this program in Burwood Girl High School in Sydney Australia when I visited that school in 2004. I saw DEAR program is very interesting for our students in developing their reading skill.We know that it's difficult to invite the students in doing reading especially in Indonesia, reading is very hard habit to do. So DEAR is good way for us because it's started by enjoyable activity. Let I tell you how to do this program. Burwood Girl High School is one school in Sydney which has all girls.To develop the students reading skill this school does DEAR program every Wednesday on the last period. This activity is done not only the students but also teachers and staffs. Every body does this activity. It last one period of the lesson ( 45 minutes).Ofcourse the teacher who is in the class accompany the students in this time. Can you imagine the school's situation on this period ? Yea... the school looks like empty , calm, no body do speaking or discussion. Wow... how wonderful it is. When I interviewed one of the teacher, she started from the easiest way. They did this program from the simple materials. The students may read what they like to read such as, magazines, newspapers, comics, novels or knowledge books, ect. They also can bring from their home or borrow from their library. The important thing is they do reading on that period. After having the development the school try to ask their students to read the materials by giving tasks, such as the students ask to re write the story that they have read, make the conclusion of the materials, ect. If they have finished writing the conlusion, they collect their task to the teacher. I was intersted about this program.I explore this at my school. For the first time I face d difficulties to do. Some of my collages did not accept this idea. They thought it's a waste program, useless, un interested, etc. Thanks God in the third year my campign my school accept this program and put on the school time table until now. Every Wednesday on the 6th period my school do DEAR program. I hope by exploring this program can develop my students' reading ability, and I hope next time we can make reading is an interesting activity for us in this country, since by reading much we can get more and we can be clever people, like the God's instruction " read...read " you will know every thing in the world. How do you think ? it's so nice, isn't it ? I'll wait for your comment
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