“Novel shows the beauty of the town, in the mountain tea Dong, water wharf, bay berth small boat, gentle mountain wind, endless bamboo, all this beautiful…” early winter season, Sichuan cloth tow middle school seventh grade classroom, with beautiful projection screen and the voice of the reader, modern Chinese writer shen Congwen’s Xiangxi city spring slowly flowing into the students’ eyes and heart.
This is the scene of “Zhejiang · Yue Reading” Reading club member —— Rice Reading Commune (Cixi Humanities and Social Science Research Association) “Mountains and seas Connecting the sky” middle school students classics guide project “walk” into the mountains of southwest China.
“To teach students in mountainous areas to read, what they lack is not books, but good lead readers.”Said Chen Yike, a Chinese teacher at Zhouxiang Middle School, one of the promoters of the project. He was one of the first teachers of Cixi city to help Sichuan. In July last year, he came to Butuo Middle School in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province to teach. He found that the school reading room had books of hundreds of thousands of books, but the reading atmosphere on the campus was not strong.”Material donations are important, but spiritual ‘lead reading’ is also essential.”
At the same time, the Daoreading Commune, which is committed to the popularization of humanities and social sciences and nationwide reading, has also turned its attention to rural schools in the central and western regions.”The project of ‘Mountains and seas with the Stars’ is an upgrade of the traditional rural public welfare book donation model.”Rice read commune, vice President of soup said, make up the gap between eastern and western urban and rural education, reading promotion is a way of low cost, feasibility, hope by recording, sharing classics reading video, let the mountain children can enjoy the high quality resources in the city, master the scientific reading method, develop good reading habits.
According to the report, the rice reading commune recruited volunteers from all walks of life, including senior primary and secondary school teachers, doctors, police, civil servants, carefully selected from the list recommended by the Ministry of Education, a total of 35 classics reading videos. Since October, the videos have been broadcast in three grades of Butuo Middle School, watching more than 4,000 students.”These videos have stimulated the interest of the students in the whole grade in reading, cultivated their good reading habits, and the students’ reading ability has been greatly improved.”Butuo middle school grade one director and Sha Niu Sha said.
In addition to the introduction of the famous works, Chen Yike also carried out reading notes and reading comments in the middle school grade of Butuo Middle School, and rewarded and encouraged a number of outstanding students each semester.”Reading classics can not only help students accumulate some good words and sentences, improve their writing ability, but more importantly, help them establish a correct outlook on life and values, so that they can make their body and mind more healthy and have more perfect character.”He said.
It is reported that the rice reading Commune “Mountains and sea connecting the starry sky” middle school students’ famous works reading project has been listed as the key project of Ningbo social science popularization base in 2022, and has received the guidance and support of Cixi Social Science Federation and the Municipal Civilization Office. In the future, we will adopt the “online + offline” mode, and build a local reading cycle through donating good books, “reading cloud classroom” and cultural pairing, etc., to help the cooperation between eastern and western education.