{"id":867,"date":"2015-10-07T05:32:13","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T04:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/?p=867"},"modified":"2015-10-07T05:32:13","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T04:32:13","slug":"reading-holiday-in-sweden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/2015\/10\/07\/reading-holiday-in-sweden\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Reading Holiday&#8217; in Sweden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/files\/2015\/10\/IFLA_Torbjorn-Nilsson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-868\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/files\/2015\/10\/IFLA_Torbjorn-Nilsson-300x125.jpg\" alt=\"IFLA_Torbjorn-Nilsson\" width=\"300\" height=\"125\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The result of the PISA survey 2012, published in 2013, was a real wake up call for Sweden, as it revealed that Swedish pupils performed significantly worse than students in other OECD countries in terms of literacy.\u00a0 As a reaction to this negative result, a number of reading promotion projects started, focussing on children&#8217;s reading and reading comprehension ability.<\/p>\n<p>The latest project, L\u00e4slov (Reading Holiday), was launched during the Gothenburg Book and Library Fair at the end of September this year, when the Minister for Culture, Alice Bah Kuhnke, as well as the Minister for Education, Gustaf Fridolin, participated.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/files\/2015\/10\/bahfridolin-600x400.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-869\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/files\/2015\/10\/bahfridolin-600x400-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"bahfridolin-600x400\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/files\/2015\/10\/bahfridolin-600x400-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/files\/2015\/10\/bahfridolin-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nL\u00e4slov is about turning the autumn break, the old potato and harvest holiday, which occurs in week 44, October 26-30, each year, into a week of reading activities, where the output of the venture is, instead of rich potato and cereal harvests like in the old days, increased literacy and knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>L\u00e4slov is run by the non-profit organisation L\u00e4sr\u00f6relsen, which has both individual and institutional members at all levels of society.<br \/>\nDuring L\u00e4slovet, school-aged children will be invited to take part in reading activities in the municipalities. The goal is to get L\u00e4slovet v44 added into the Swedish curriculum in 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The result of the PISA survey 2012, published in 2013, was a real wake up call for Sweden, as it revealed that Swedish pupils performed significantly worse than students in other OECD countries in terms of literacy.\u00a0 As a reaction to this negative result, a number of reading promotion projects started, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":723,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/723"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=867"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":871,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions\/871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}