{"id":75043,"date":"2019-08-10T01:57:46","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T20:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=75043"},"modified":"2019-08-10T01:57:46","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T20:27:46","slug":"schools-celebrate-reading-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/08\/10\/schools-celebrate-reading-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Schools celebrate &#8216;Reading Week&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, Aug 9:<\/strong> Schools throughout the state organised reading programmes as part of the education department&#8217;s &#8216;Reading Week&#8217; celebration from 5-9 August.<br \/>\nThe event featured class-wise reading competition in both English and Hindi subjects, reading and understanding small texts, understanding storybooks, news items, advertisements, and such.<br \/>\n&#8220;The SCERT in collaboration with the NCERT conducted a national achievement survey in November 2017 for Classes 3, 5 and 8, covering 2600 elementary schools in the state. As per the survey&#8217;s report, only 52 percent students of Class 3 can read small texts with comprehension and 48 percent students can read printed scripts in the classroom (poems, posters, charts, etc), while 42 percent students of Class 5 can read and comprehend independently storybooks, news items\/headlines, advertisements, etc,&#8221; the department informed in a release.<br \/>\n&#8220;Another 43 percent students can read texts with comprehension, locate details and sequence of events, and 44 percent students of Class 8 can read textual\/non-textual materials with comprehension and identify the details, characters, main idea and sequence of ideas and events while reading,&#8221; the department said.<br \/>\n&#8220;Celebration of Reading Week in the schools will attract students towards book reading and improve education standards,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, Aug 9: Schools throughout the state organised reading programmes as part of the education department&#8217;s &#8216;Reading Week&#8217; celebration from 5-9 August. The event featured class-wise reading competition in both English and Hindi subjects, reading and understanding small texts, understanding storybooks, news items, advertisements, and such. &#8220;The SCERT in collaboration with the NCERT conducted a [&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-75043","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\/75043","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=75043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}