The Kpone- Katamanso Municipal Education Directorate, in collaboration with the Ghana Education Service (GES) and its development agencies, has organized a maiden Municipal Reading Festival in Kpone.
The Reading Festival was on the theme: “Learn to Read, Read to Learn,†to inculcate the habit of reading into students, especially at the lower primary level.
Mr. Samuel Okoe Amanquah, the Municipal Chief Executive, in a speech read on his behalf, pledged that the Municipal Assembly would continue to support educational activities within the municipality to enhance teaching and learning in the various schools.
Mr. Amanquah stressed that the reading festival would also offer the pupils the opportunity to learn new words to improve their vocabularies, adding that being able to read and understand helps the student to perform well during examinations.
The Kpone-Katamanso MCE said due to the lack of intensive reading in the various basic schools, many students did not perform well during their final examinations, stressing that education was vital as far as development was concerned.
In an interview with the Ghana News Agency on the fringes of the reading festival, Mr. Harry Evans Arthur, the Kpone-Katamanso Municipal Education Director, explained that the reading festival was also to highlight the importance of reading to the pupils.
Mr. Arthur said as part of the incentives to boost reading in the municipality, the best readers out of the lot would be allowed to represent the municipality at the regional level.
He urged stakeholders in the education sector, including parents, to support their children to enhance their reading capabilities.
He said the education directorate would ensure the reading festival expands its regime to include students from private schools within the municipality for effective and efficient competition.
The 2022 Kpone-Katamanso reading festival was sponsored by USAID.
Source: gna.org.gh