Literacy is a prerequisite for active participation in society, and poor literacy can have a negative impact on educational progress and, consequently, on future life opportunities. According to PISA results, reading comprehension has not improved in Iceland, and the same survey also suggests that a large proportion of Icelandic children are unable to read effectively. These facts were the catalyst for the local authorities in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur to focus on developing a clear and effective literacy strategy that would involve pupils, teachers and parents. The strategy has been implemented systematically over the past few years, which has, among other things, resulted in increased continuity between school levels and laid the groundwork for the importance of literacy as a cornerstone of learning.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On 25th January, a harvest festival was held for the literacy project of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur's nursery and primary schools to mark the re-release of 'Reading is the Play of a Lifetime'.\u00a0 The new edition is an update of the previous version from 2015. READING IS THE GAME OF LIFE is the policy, standards and procedures for language use, reading instruction and reading proficiency for children in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur. At the celebration, school leaders and the schools' contacts for the literacy project were presented with the first copies of the revised 'Reading is the Game of Life' and thanked for the immense work that school staff, parents and others have put in to implement the literacy focus.\u00a0<\/p>\n
READING IS LIFE'S GAME now includes after-school clubs, the Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur Library, childminders and the parents of the youngest children. The National Education Agency has also issued official benchmarks for literacy by pupils' age, whereas previously, Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur had its own.<\/p>\n
In the coming days, parents of children in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur can expect to receive the new edition of 'Reading is the Game of Life'. A copy will be distributed to every household and will be brought home by the eldest child of each household who attends one of the town's nursery or primary schools.<\/p>\n
Literacy is the key to the knowledge and understanding that it is vital for all children to master. With good reading skills, more learning opportunities open up, and new worlds of possibility are revealed. READING IS LIFE'S GAME is a project from Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur which aims for every child to achieve the best possible command of reading, to encourage rewarding interactions with others, and to foster an interest in seeking knowledge with an inquisitive mind.\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Lestrarf\u00e6rni er forsenda virkrar \u00fe\u00e1ttt\u00f6ku \u00ed samf\u00e9laginu og b\u00e1g lestrarf\u00e6rni getur haft neikv\u00e6\u00f0 \u00e1hrif \u00e1 n\u00e1msframvindu og \u00fear me\u00f0 t\u00e6kif\u00e6ri \u00e1 l\u00edfslei\u00f0inni s\u00ed\u00f0ar meir. Samkv\u00e6mt ni\u00f0urst\u00f6\u00f0um PISA hefur lesskilningur ekki aukist \u00e1 \u00cdslandi og einnig lei\u00f0ir sama k\u00f6nnun l\u00edkur a\u00f0 \u00fev\u00ed a\u00f0 st\u00f3r hluti \u00edslenskra barna getur lesi\u00f0 s\u00e9r til gagns. \u00deessar sta\u00f0reyndir voru kveikja […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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-13725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frettir"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13725","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=13725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13725"}],"curies":[{"name":"WordPress","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}