Reading Promotion - A School Development Task

Reading promotion has been a focus of German education policy, especially since the first PISA results were released. After intensive efforts in recent years to develop reading promotion concepts and integrate them into the German education system, measures to enhance reading competence are now well-known in most schools. However, reading promotion is often implemented in an unsystematic way, which can hinder its widespread success. The authors demonstrate that reading promotion is primarily a school development task that can build on existing concepts within the school and does not always need to be approached as a new development initiative. Step by step, the authors guide through various phases, starting with reviewing the existing concepts in the school.