{"id":269557,"date":"2025-08-26T00:19:57","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T18:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=269557"},"modified":"2025-08-26T00:19:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T18:49:57","slug":"joy-of-reading-spreads-through-1-11-21-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2025\/08\/26\/joy-of-reading-spreads-through-1-11-21-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"Joy of reading spreads through 1\/11\/21 initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 25 Aug:<\/strong> The Kendriya Vidyalaya No 1here has set a benchmark in promoting foundational literacy and reading habit by launching the innovative 1\/11\/21 reading initiative.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Introduced in October last year, the programme is aligned with the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 goals on foundational literacy and numeracy,and is designed to instil a lifelong love for reading among children.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Under this unique drive, students of Class 1 to 5 are issued books on the 1st, 11th, and 21st of every month. What began as a local practice at KV No 1 has since been adopted across the Tinsukia region of KVS, making it a model for others to follow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To strengthen the culture of reading, the vidyalaya also organizes book exhibitions, observes a Reading Promotion Week, and gifts books as prizes in competitions, turning reading into an engaging and rewarding habit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Parents have shared positive testimonials, noting that children are more eager to read at home, while teachers have reported significant improvement in Hindi and English reading fluency.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By combining consistency with innovation, the 1\/11\/21 initiative has transformed the way students engage with books &#8211; proving that small, sustained steps can spark big changes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With its success, KV No 1 Itanagar has truly shown how the joy of reading can spread from classrooms to homes, setting a benchmark for literacy practices in schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, 25 Aug: The Kendriya Vidyalaya No 1here has set a benchmark in promoting foundational literacy and reading habit by launching the innovative 1\/11\/21 reading initiative. Introduced in October last year, the programme is aligned with the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 goals on foundational literacy and numeracy,and is designed to instil a lifelong love [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-269557","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}