MIND MAPPING THE SCHEME CALLED SKIM PEMBACAAN INISIATIF KEBANGSAAN

spik!...seeking a paradigm shift from a 'never-asked-to-read-before' to a 'must-read' environment deAstroyed

We have been correctly advised that SPIK makes a better SPIN,

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- at the PPD level, SKIM PEMBACAAN INISIATIF KEBANGSAAN or SPIK to organise CERAP in-service coach training programmes using suggested materials (photocopiable until the books arrive), with the objective of turning a corps of assistant English language instructors, preferably picked from BM language teachers or other volunteers, who would have no problem picking up at the least reading fluency. In time Grammar rules would be autonomic once the reading progresses. Each school should send at least 1 teacher willing to champion and breed coaches at school level.

- at the school level, SKIM PEMBACAAN INISIATIF KELAB or SPIK is the name, run as an extra-curricular capacity building outcome based structured practice strictly based on agreed CERAP method rules.

- at the school level, SKIM PEMBACAAN INISIATIF KELAB or SPIK should not interfere with the official timetable nor be a cost item in the school budget. The cost for materials/modules and other tools of the trade should be borne from a book sponsorship fund through PIBG etc.

- at the school level, SKIM PEMBACAAN INISIATIF KELAB or SPIK is run as an English Coaching Games, using the reading sets as finishing lines, timed and graded, and audio recorded and graded.

- at the school level, SKIM PEMBACAAN INISIATIF KELAB or SPIK should bring more joy to English language teachers in the formal classroom.

- at the school level, SKIM PEMBACAAN INISIATIF KELAB or SPIK must ensure students have reached minimum Intermediate level mastery by PMR stage, and High Intermediate by SPM stage (the top cream should reach beyond MUET banding and ready for Cambridge A-Levels).

- at the school level, SKIM PEMBACAAN INISIATIF KELAB or SPIK would at the minimal produce students with better expressive skills and coherence, raising self-esteem and building confidence whilst removing despair ...[which many sociologists believe would lead to death of mat rempit mania].

- at the school level, SKIM PEMBACAAN INISIATIF KELAB or SPIK should be expanded as peer coaching programme to include BM, Jawi, Bahasa Arab, English for Science & Technology, using the right modules and maintaining the reading momentum and meeting students hunger for more.

- at the DBP level, SKIM PEMBACAAN INISIATIF KELAB or SPIK should make them want to dig their treasures, bring the language experts in (and kick the Konsortium out?) and churn out a series of graded readers. KITAR SEMUA!

- at the tuition cottage industry level, SKIM PEMBACAAN INISIATIF KELAB or SPIK teacher-operators would have to adjust accordingly and include reading fluency or be left out of the market.

-at the home level, SKIM PEMBACAAN INISIATIF KELAB or SPIK should induce more parental control and awareness of child's progress, from viewing reading progress card or clicking on the portal. [If kids know dad interested, this will spur them on. Mums always there though.]

- at the PPD level, SKIM PEMBACAAN INISIATIF KELAB or SPIK 's secretariat for the Games.

- at the MOE level, SKIM PEMBACAAN INISIATIF KEBANGSAAN or SPIK should be considered, despite the lightness of its budget requirement, a painless privatisation.