Photo Essays: Reading Promotion
Figure 1.-- Here we see a boy reading a parerback during the rest period after lunch. Notice the coloful Spiderman duvet.
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Most prep school strongly promote free reading. Schools have a variety of approaches to interest and encourage the children to read. Most schools ensure that time is set aside every day for the children to persue their personal reading interests. Many schools have rest periods after lunch during which the children are encouraged to read. They are not required to read, but there is not a lot of napping that goes on, although some younger children doze off. So many of the children do read. We see children reading a range of books and magazines. Schools also provide quiet time in the evening after the children wash up and return to their dormitories. This time is often used for reading. Supervised quiet time is one approach. There are many others approaches. St. Michael's in Surrey requires that each boy have a book checked out at all times and sets books for holiday reading. At other schools the encouragement is less formalized.
