caa a22 4500 475743083 CHVBK 20180406123505.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000701xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1004086618679 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1004086618679 Elley Warwick 12A Kiteroa Terrace, Rothesay Bay, North Shore, 1310, Auckland, New Zealand aut The Potential of Book Floods for Raising Literacy Levels [Elektronische Daten] [Warwick Elley] The problem of raising literacy levels in developing countries is particularly challenging when pupils have their schooling in a non-native language. One promising strategy which has been tried and evaluated in the schools of several developing countries is the Book Flood approach. This article summarises the findings of Book Flood studies in Niue, Fiji, Singapore, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Solomon Islands, and several other countries. The evidence is now strong that it is possible to double the rate of reading acquisition of Third World primary school pupils with a "Book Flood" of about 100 high-interest books, per class, and short teacher training sessions. The benefits for reading skill and enthusiasm are consistent across diverse cultures, mother tongues and age levels, and they appear to generate corresponding improvements in children's writing, listening comprehension, and related language skills. Such skills are typically found to develop very slowly under traditional textbook styles of teaching. The problems of cost per school and cultural suitability of imported books are addressed. Several countries have adopted Book Flood programmes on a national scale, and others are currently planning to do so. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000 International Review of Education Kluwer Academic Publishers 46/3-4(2000-07-01), 233-255 0020-8566 46:3-4<233 2000 46 11159 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1004086618679 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1004086618679 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Elley Warwick 12A Kiteroa Terrace, Rothesay Bay, North Shore, 1310, Auckland, New Zealand aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- International Review of Education Kluwer Academic Publishers 46/3-4(2000-07-01), 233-255 0020-8566 46:3-4<233 2000 46 11159 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer