Special Reading Initiatives

As mandated by the Organic Law for the Improvement of Educational Quality, educational authorities have in accordance with the 2013 law sponsored numerous promotional activities to encourage reading, and to use school libraries as dynamic spaces for teaching and integrating information services.29 This particularly pertains to the incorporation of new technologies into instruction. The most effective practices for fostering reading and introducing students to books are systematic and ongoing (e.g., reading books; taking part in oral or written reading comprehension activities; the interchange of meanings, opinions, and ideas about texts). Occasional activities (e.g., exhibitions, meetings with authors, reading promotion campaigns) reinforce literacy development but do not in themselves guarantee a habit of reading.