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<\/p>\nThe results of the reading assessments in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur's primary schools in autumn 2016 show that pupils with good reading skills in years 5\u201310 now make up almost a quarter of the pupil body (24%), up from 16% at the same time last year. At the same time, the number of pupils in the lowest ability group is 17%, down from 22% a year ago.<\/p>\n
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In September 2016, for the second time, assessments of reading proficiency were carried out for just over 2,200 pupils in Years 5 to 10 in the primary schools of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur. The tests administered to students in the autumn are new reading tests from the National Education Agency called Lesferill, which are standardised for the entire country. The tests become more difficult with increasing age, and likewise, the performance benchmarks increase. The tests used in autumn 2015 were Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur-specific and therefore not standardised. It is also worth bearing in mind that the reading tests in question measure pupils' reading speed rather than other aspects such as reading comprehension and vocabulary.<\/p>\n
The results of the autumn assessments indicate progress in reading skills among pupils in the middle and senior years at Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur's primary schools. This raises hopes that a new reading initiative for Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur's nursery and primary schools, READING IS THE GAME OF LIFE, is already paying off. The results therefore suggest that the year-on-year improvement can be attributed to reading being given greater importance in and out of school by pupils. Likewise, an increased emphasis is placed on supporting teachers by providing them with benchmarks, tests and screening tools, courses, training and advice, in addition to an emphasis on collaboration between teachers within schools and between the nursery and primary school stages. A specialist teaching adviser has been appointed to provide guidance on teaching literacy in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur's nursery and primary schools. It is important to continue to promote increased reading proficiency among pupils, and work is being carried out on all fronts. The pupils, school staff and parents are also thanked for their cooperation in working together to strengthen reading, in line with 'READING IS LIFE'S GAME'.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ni\u00f0urst\u00f6\u00f0ur lestrarm\u00e6linga \u00ed grunnsk\u00f3lum Hafnarfjar\u00f0ar hausti\u00f0 2016 s\u00fdna a\u00f0 nemendur me\u00f0 g\u00f3\u00f0a lestrarleikni \u00ed 5. \u2013 10. bekk eru n\u00fa n\u00e6r fj\u00f3r\u00f0ungur nemendah\u00f3psins (24%) \u00ed sta\u00f0 16% \u00e1 sama t\u00edma \u00ed fyrra. Um lei\u00f0 eru nemendur \u00ed getuminnsta h\u00f3pnum 17% nemenda \u00ed sta\u00f0 22% fyrir \u00e1ri s\u00ed\u00f0an. \u00cd september 2016 f\u00f3ru \u00ed anna\u00f0 skipti fram […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-frettir"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13190"}],"curies":[{"name":"WordPress","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}