Opening the Door to Learning Literacy Is a Family Affair

Photo: Lo Birgersson/City of Gothenburg

"The Urban center Where We Read for Our Children" is a Gothenburg project designed to encourage reading with and for children in their early age. Now, for two years, the city will hold an European union project within the Erasmus+ program on the aforementioned theme. The project includes four other European cities and is called "Open the door for reading".

"Open the door for reading" is coordinated by the City of Gothenburg and includes the cities of Turku, Milan, Brussels and Bristol. For two years, the cities will substitution knowledge about reading promotion through workshops, seminars and visits in all five cities.

The purpose is to increase skills, dare to try new ways of working and develop reading promotion methods. One of the focus areas is how to achieve, support and strengthen vulnerable families and their children.

How will the project exist carried out?

The projection includes transnational meetings in each partner city, seminars/ workshops and study visits, a" booklet"/ training transmission for professionals and other actors promoting reading among families, 2 multiplier events with lectures/ seminars and presentations of the project results.

Part of a bigger objective

The EU project is part of The City of Gothenburg's mobilization issue "The Urban center Where We Read for Our Children". The purpose is to encourage reading with and for children early in their life's. Research shows that reading for and with children contribute to improved vocabulary, interest in reading and reading power among children.

If we read to our children, in long term, more people will exist able to stop school, get further instruction and qualified jobs. The issue is therefore an important role in the metropolis'due south piece of work with reducing disparities in living weather condition in Gothenburg, "Equal Gothenburg"

Training Manual – A Guidance for practitioners working with young families

The Open the Door for Reading projection raises the importance of reading and telling stories amongst practitioners working with families across a broad range of contexts. The manual is a product of the Erasmus Plus 'Open the Door to Reading' project, involving five European cities and the transnational exchange of all-time practice.

Download Grooming Transmission – A Guidance for practitioners working with immature families

Transnational meetings

Gothenburg, December 2017

Programme and report from the meeting

Bristol, May 2018

Program and written report from the meeting

Turku, October 2018

Programme and report from the meeting

Brussel, May 2019

Programme and study from the meeting

Milano, October 2019

Programme and study from the meeting

Photos

Multiplier Events

Brussel 9th of May

This briefing is one of 2 events in order to present our project results, share our experiences and proficient practices.

Programme

Milano 18th of October

Program and report

Presentations

Photos

Press about the project

Gothenburg

Interview with project coordinator Malin Omland (Gothenburg EU-Office) (in swedish)

Article from Gothenburg EU-Office (in swedish)

Article from Milano coming together (in swedish)

Fem städer pratar ökad läsning i nytt Göteborgsprojekt (in Swedish)

Cities open up the door for reading to Children (Eurocities — in English)

More manufactures (in Swedish)

Brussel

School Education Gateway (article and interview Amos Van Gelderen)

Press and articles

Turku

Blog postal service

Posts from Taru-Project:

Taru i

Taru two

Taru three

Taru 4

Bristol

Bristol shares learning on how to promote reading to children with European cities (article)

Start Bristol Children's Centre Opens New Cloakroom Library (commodity)

Tweets

https://twitter.com/BHillSettlement/status/1199980739665833984

https://twitter.com/BristolCouncil/condition/1194628188065820672

https://twitter.com/helengt76/status/1194684509372997633

https://twitter.com/CllrAnnaKeen/condition/1194724839766024194

https://twitter.com/BBBrussels/status/1186207906745737217

https://twitter.com/CllrAnnaKeen/status/1163812154140553219

The participating cities

Gothenburg

For many years The City of Gothenburg have worked with social sustainability, human being rights and equal opportunities. The concept (Equal Gothenburg) is now coordinated by a long-term plan "The Metropolis of Gothenburg's program for an equal urban center 2018-2026" with the primary target to support our citizens so that they can reach their full potential in wellness and wellbeing. That ways that some city districts get more than intense back up then others where the social standard and wellbeing already are at an elevated level just still, nosotros work to create a more equal and cohesion city over all.

To tackle the difference in living conditions and equality we have organized our piece of work in 4 dissimilar objectives; A good start in life and practiced upbringing conditions; To create good atmospheric condition for work; To create sustainable and equal local communities; and To create good conditions for citizen participation, influence and trust in society. The mobilization "The Urban center Where Nosotros Read to our Children" is a function of the first objective in this program and is designed to encourage reading with and for children in their early age. It is a very simple and concrete issue which gives a possibility for many, with relatively depression input, to contribute to a more positive evolution in our society.

The mobilization is implemented through the evolution and strengthening of reading promotion activities, development skills and communications efforts.  To take an issue and to be able to influence differences in living weather condition and health we need to piece of work on different levels, therefore both general and more than specific deportment is needed. One important effort within this mobilization is our ongoing Erasmus+ project Open the door for Reading

Bristol

As Teaching and Learning Consultants we are delighted to exist taking part in the Open the Door To Reading Project.  Nosotros currently lead on the Every Child a Reader (ECaR) initiative in the City : ECaR was a national initiative that began in 2005 with Bristol being seen as a leading Authorization in the innovation of this project at a local level to address underachievement of vulnerable groups in the Urban center.

ECaR is a means of organizing and managing a range of effective literacy interventions for children struggling to read and write in Key Stage ane. Information technology is a school based approach which aims to ensure that every child achieves literacy success in literacy through carefully targeted back up. At the cadre of this strategy is Reading Recovery which provides intensive didactics for the very lowest attaining children and professional back up for staff to ensure quality commencement education and reduce the need for intervention. ECaR bridges the gap betwixt dissimilar abilities in the classroom, making sure that every child is reader earlier they move into Key Stage 2.

Milano

Second largest city in Italian republic (1,400,000 inhabitants in its Municipality, 180 sq Km), Milan is as well administrative and business centre in the largest Italian metropolitan expanse, with a population of about five.000.000 people, and the main city of Lombardy, Italian more populated and rich region. The Municipality of Milan is a Local Authority and is responsible for the strategic planning and delivery of a large number of services for the metropolis (teaching, social services, economic development, culture, mobility, housing).

The Education Department of Municipality of Milan manages more than 300 preschools for children 0/vi years old. In item, 104 plant nursery schools (0-3 years one-time), 175 preschools (iii-6 years old) and 39 "Sezioni Primavera" that are classes of continuity betwixt nursery schools and pre-schools. Moreover we manage services for families, such as spaces for families, centers for early childhood and play areas that have for target children that are non enrolled in our daily services. The Department is equanimous of people of staff. More than 3000 educators 4250 piece of work in Education Section and 33.000 children 0/half dozen years erstwhile attend our services. We are dealing with a public-individual integrated organization that involves as well private nursery schools and pre-schools.

Fromt the OTDTR project we expect to heighten and improve our internal processes supporting the reading practices, which have a key role in the evolution of our pedagogical approach that is based on inclusive education and divergent thinking. Moreover reading is connected to wellbeing meant in the broader sense as the capability of adults to take care of children and of their self reliance capability. Reading become the way to guarantee the possibility of giving equal opportunities to all children, also in culturally deprived contexts. Besides public libraries, our local partners are pediatricians and Regional Health Section.

Turku

Turku is the oldest city in Finland and 1 of the oldest in the N. It is a cultural hub of erstwhile and new with 6 college educational activity institutions. The Turku region is the third largest urban region in Finland with 317,000 inhabitants. The official population of the City of Turku is around 190,000.

Turku area is characterised past its international dimension. There are more than than 100 nationalities resident in the surface area. ten % speak languages other than Finnish or Swedish.

The strategy of the urban center emphasises health and well-being of its citizens. Fundamental Administration of Turku oversees the implementation of city's strategy. Urban center strategy is supported by 2 strategic programmes, the other i being Well-being and action. This plan focuses on promoting active lifestyle, participation of citizens, and co-operation of dissimilar actors in the city. For city of Turku, Open the Door for Reading –project supports creating new possibilities to promote reading and reaching families with dissimilar backgrounds.

Brussel

The Brussels Network of Dutch Public Libraries takes reading promotion at heart. Given the social and cultural superdiversity that characterizes the Belgian capital, the libraries pay special attending to disadvantaged multilingual children and their parents. To enrich the volume and reading context of vulnerable families, that is what the libraries endeavour to achieve. In this perspective, the libraries accept developed quite some reading projects: Boekstart (for private children from 0 to 2,5 years), Boekenbende ('The Book Squad', for individual children from 5 to 6), Voorleesweek ('The Read Aloud Week' likewise known every bit 'Brussels Reads Aloud' in November, for individual children from 4 to 7), Jeugdboekenmaand ('The Youth Books Month', for groups/classes of children from 4 tot xiv). And of form, the overall, continuous Reading Line, an integrated approach of reading promotion, techniques and exercises throughout all the projects the libraries organize.

The Brussels Network of Dutch Public Libraries is an initiative of the Department 'Support Platform Libraries in Brussels', which is a service of the Flemish Community Commission (VGC). The Flemish Customs Commission supports the national literacy plan and has an date to support Dutch and multilingual communities in Brussels. With this delivery as a broad guideline, the Network links poverty reduction to the literacy plan.

Family literacy in combination with socially vulnerable families is a hard and fragile mission. The transnational project 'Open the Door to Reading' is therefore important for our library network. The exchange of ideas and good practices will help united states of america to have a clearer focus on our mission, to broaden our vision on possible partnerships, to improve our projects and especially, to ameliorate our skills and methods to communicate to/with families that exercise non often read at home.

Link to this folio

www.goteborg.se/openthedoorforreading

Contact for further information

Malin Omland - Leading the project "The city where we read for our children"
E-mail service: malin.omland@forskola.goteborg.se

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