Hidden Reader
Students respond to challenges based on what they have read and try to identify who has not read the same text.
lesespark!
CONTEXT
Lesespark! is a master’s project developed with Gyldendal for lower secondary school students. Against the backdrop of a reading crisis, it explores how community and social interaction can create new ways into literature.
READING TIME = PARTICIPATION
Observations showed that time set aside for reading did not necessarily mean that students were actually reading. The research also pointed to community and social influence as important drivers of young people’s engagement.
Could community become a way into literature?
SELECTED METHODS
Conversation tool with students
Made it easier for students to talk about what they like and dislike doing — and why.
Classroom observations
Provided insight into what actually happened when time was set aside for reading.
Expert workshop and conversations
Practitioners and experts contributed perspectives on reading, young people and social influence.
DESIGN PROPOSAL
Lesespark! consists of three digital reading activities built around short fiction and different forms of interaction.
Blank Text
Students collaborate to shape a text in their own way — one chooses words while another adds image and sound — before viewing and comparing each other’s versions in the classroom.
Your Voice
Students anonymously share their views on themes from the text and from teenage life more broadly, then compare them with the rest of the class as a starting point for discussion and reflection.
