St. Michael’s Primary School, Namibia

Our school is located on a farm in the middle of nowhere. There isn’t much for the children to do except play soccer or misbehave. Because the library now contains books at their reading level, the learners want to hang out in the library and read. They are no longer bored and misbehaving. The books that have been the most useful are the short children’s books. The reason for this is because all grades can use these for English proficiency. Before school got out, we had the grade 1 and 2 children reading to the older children, and we had the older children practice their inflection and creative reading skills by reading to the younger children.