English Panel Programme 2009

Introduction

“To give quality education in order to produce knowledgeable, educated and charismatic
pupils”

R
eading is the cognitive process of deriving meaning from written or printed
text. It is a means of language acquisition, of communication, and of sharing
information and ideas. Effective readers use decoding skills (to translate
printed text into the sounds of language), use morpheme, semantics, syntax and context
cues to identify the meaning of unknown words, activate prior knowledge (schemata
theory), use comprehension, and demonstrate fluency during reading.

Other types of reading may not be text-based, such as music notation or

pictograms. By analogy, in computer science, reading is acquiring of data from some sort
of computer storage.

Studies have shown that American children who learn to read by the third grade
are less likely to end up in prison, drop out of school, or take drugs. Adults who read
literature on a regular basis are nearly three times as likely to attend a performing arts
event, almost four times as likely to visit an art museum, more than two-and-a-half times
as likely to do volunteer or charity work, and over one-and-a-half times as likely to
participate in sporting activities, according to Jamie Littlefield on charityguide.org [2]
Literacy rates in the United States are also more highly correlated to weekly earnings
than IQ.
Reading books is generally regarded as being a relaxing past-time, while at the
same time requiring the brain to process text so it can be stimulated. Because of this it is
sometimes considered to cause at least a temporary increase in one's mental faculties.

Rational

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Drop Everything And Read or formerly known as D.E.A.R is the programme that
created to nurture a positive spirit among the pupils in learning English. This programme
is for the first 10 minutes everyday after school end. It will start officially on 28 th January
2008.
During this programme, pupils need to read any English reading materials. The
teacher on duty will monitor the pupils in order to ensure that they read only English
material.
D.E.A.R programme is very important to the pupils as their guidance and as early
exposure in facing the challenge in education since the ministry introduced the Science,
and Mathematics subjects that being delivered in English.

Objectives
In conjunction with the new education curriculum, the objectives of this programme
implemented at this school are as follow:

 To nurture positive reading habits among pupils.

 To encourage SK Ulu Poi’s pupils to read English material so that they can
improve their English proficiency.
 To abolish the low-self esteem among the pupils in learning English.
 To enrich their vocabulary through reading the English materials.
 To manure an independent and knowledgeable pupils.

Date
19th January 2009 until school ends. (every year).

Venue
SK Ulu Poi.

Time
1.00 p.m until 1.10 p.m. everyday.

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Target Group
SK Ulu Poi’s pupils.

Number of participants
41 pupils from Year 1 until Year 6

Activities
 Read English books and magazines (silent reading).
 Recite poems.
 Listen and sing English song.

Conclusion
Throughout this programme, the English Panel hopes it able to produce
knowledgeable pupils that manage to face the challenge in education. Besides that, it also
hopes that it can generate a reading habit among the SK Ulu Poi’s community. In other
hand, the programme is a benchmark for the pupils to move a step forward to be a better
person in future. According to Toa “The success starts from a single step”.

Prepared by: Checked and endorsed by:

DONNY STEPHEN SEKAI PETER TINGOM

Head of English Panel Headmaster
SK Ulu Poi, Kanowit SK Ulu Poi, Kanowit.