The Department of Culture, through the municipal library "Mateo García", has recently inaugurated, with the groups of 5 ° A and 5 ° B of the CEIP "San José", the program of Animation to Reading 2017/2018 offered to the educational centers of the municipality.
The program has started with the activity "After the track", and will have the presence of students in the fifth year of the schools "San José", "La Milagrosa", "Luis Pérez Rueda", "La Cruz", "County Deitania "," Santa Eulalia "and" Tierno Galván ".
This activity, carried out by the library staff, aims to promote reading not only of literary texts but also of subject books, and consists basically of a guided tour of the library to learn about its resources.
The main objectives are to teach how the books are arranged and explain the reason for that placement, know the management and the advantages of using the online catalog of the Regional Library page.
In addition, it is intended to provide the student with the necessary tools to locate the works on the shelves through the use of said catalog.
The visit begins with an explanation of how the books are classified and arranged, and what the colored tiles mean, then they are taught to use the website of the Regional Library to find a book.
Next, a fragment of a documentary about the explained thing is projected and the game begins, that consists of solving three tests to leave (Terror, Adventure and Fantasy).
Before the game the students are divided into three groups, each one will solve the riddles that are hidden in the books;
books that you will find with the help of the computer through the online catalog.
For this course, the municipal library "Mateo García" has prepared a calendar in which some eighty-seven animations will be carried out, which will cover children between the ages of 5 and 12.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Totana