Nevertheless, it was clear\u2014not least because the parallel class had also had a positive experience with the Reading Olympics\u2014that another project was needed to further promote reading motivation and reading skills. To continue to cater to the class\u2019s high level of enthusiasm for reading, but also to motivate those who had not yet discovered reading\u2014and, by extension, the class library\u2014as a form of entertainment, a Reading Olympics was held during the first semester of 6th grade: The children were encouraged to read at least 50 pages each week and to record the number of pages they had read on a large master list in the classroom. <\/p>\n
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No More Non-Readers!<\/strong><\/p>\n From the very beginning, the Reading Olympics was very well received by more than half the class. Thanks to the motivation of many students and the competitive nature of the event, the others were swept up in the excitement as well, creating a momentum that captivated everyone. As a result, there were some students who read thousands of pages almost every week. The record here was 5,207 pages in a single week. Equally significant is the fact that there wasn\u2019t a single student who stopped reading because of the Reading Olympics. Some of the students who had previously been complete non-readers went on to read several hundred pages over time\u2014even though participation was voluntary. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Certificates for Everyone<\/strong><\/p>\n Overall, Class 6a achieved an outstanding reading result, reading 139,843 pages in the first half of the school year (August\u2013mid-December). A truly impressive result! The students were finally honored for this achievement in January. All participants received certificates for their great dedication to reading. The nine winners also received book vouchers. These were generously donated by Steinm\u00fchle and <\/em>the Roter Stern\/Lesezeichen<\/em> bookstore, with which Steinm\u00fchle has been collaborating very successfully for many years. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Livia Schulze in the lead<\/strong><\/p>\n Livia Schulze took first place with 27,381 pages, Rebecca Zenker took second place with 25,044 pages, and Lilly Peters took third place with 18,432 pages. Henry Just took first place among the boys with 12,252 pages read, followed by Fabian Fahr with 4,164 and Leon Schmidt with 3,668 pages read. Even the students who placed lower managed to read at least 486 pages. Thus, the Reading Olympics\u2014which was very well received by the students\u2014can be considered an impressive success. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Awards for the Rising Stars<\/strong><\/p>\n To motivate even those students who struggle with reading or who generally described themselves as \u201cabsolute non-readers,\u201d there was also a prize for the students who made the greatest progress\u2014a prize that almost all students would have deserved: This prize was awarded to Hanna Schmidt-Dege (6th place with 10,350 pages read), Lasse H\u00fchn (12th place with 1,730 pages read), and Enrique Seip (11th place with 2,380 pages read).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Both statistics and the students\u2019 own experiences and assessments show that reading is becoming less and less common. In a survey conducted in Class 6a, 16 students reported that they never or only occasionally read. Five indicated that they read occasionally. Eleven answered, \u201cI never read.\u201d Various reading projects carried out in the 6th grade […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":43958,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,103,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-contests-awards","category-languages-international-affairs","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48960,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43955\/revisions\/48960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/02\/2_klein-scaled.jpg\")
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