Improving Writing Skills through Stages – Oriented Reading Project

“Improving writing skills through stages – oriented reading project” is an initiative taken in 2018 and 2019 to help low – proficiency learners to improve their reading and writing skills through a set of reading materials. The project involves 10 stages of reading tasks and in each stage students completed 10 reading tasks which were accompanied by activities that test skills that are essential to develop reading and writing skills. Students had to complete one stage in order to move to another. 25 students were involved in this project and it was carried out during the students’ free periods throughout the year. The students involved in this project were those who had failed their English language test in the PT3 examination and had an alarming score of below 30 in their term examinations in form 4. A pre – test was carried out before the project took off and they were given written and reading tests after every stage of reading to record their progress. The data collected throughout the project were the evident to show improvement and significant progresses that the students made.