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“Reading Battle” Experience Sharing Seminar cum Award Ceremony Enhance Reading Ability at ease with gamification

22 Jun 2015

Funded by the Quality Education Fund since 2013, the project “Reading Battle” aims to strengthen reading comprehension ability of primary school students through engaging them in an interactive e-quiz cloud service, Reading Battle, as post-reading activities.

Reading comprehension questions on a collection of quality children’s literature were developed with scaffolding support on Reading Battle. After reading the respective children’s literature, students can self-check if they have successfully grasped the meaning of the literature through attempting “Reading Battle”. Teachers can have a better understanding of their students’ reading habit and progress. Reading Battle is accessible via web browsers, on PCs, iOS or Android.

Reading Battle has proven to be very successful in motivating students to read and to enhance their reading ability. Up to now, over 20 primary schools in Hong Kong and Taiwan have joined this scheme. Members of the media are invited to come to this Experience Sharing Seminar cum Award Ceremony, in which Professor SK Tse will share with us his expertise on Chinese reading comprehension. Details and programme are as below:

Date:              June 30, 2015, Tuesday
Time:              2:30 – 4:30 pm
Venue:            Rayson Huang Theatre, The University of Hong Kong
Language:     Cantonese

For media enquiries, please contact Ms Rachel Li, Senior Manager (Development and Communications) (Tel.: 2219 4270 / E-mail: lirachel@hku.hk); or Ms Wendy Wu (Tel: 2219 4314 / E-mail: wendywu@hku.hk).