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DEAR
Drop Everything And Read
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Date: 7 Nov 2019
Venue: Classrooms
“A Reader lives a thousand lives before he dies …The man who never
reads lives only one.”
George R.R. Martin
Whether you are a novelist, a poet, a short-story writer, an essayist, a
biographer or an aspiring beginner, you want to improve your craft. The
question is: How?
We in Gulf Indian High School encourage and motivate students
to read for pleasure. We conduct such activities to inculcate reading
practices among students across all phases through the Drop
Everything And Read better known as DEAR, which is a time regularly
set aside in the classroom schedule for both students and their
teachers to "drop everything and read." DEAR time conveniently
accommodates a variety of student interests and ability levels, since
each student selects for himself/herself the book(s) he/she wishes to
read.
We have heard it said many times before, reading is good for you.
However, helping students to cultivate a love for reading is easier said
