Mentakab mentor Jimmy Ma started a program in his SK Bangau school a month ago. This program was aimed at increasing reading opportunities for the students. The students currently are participating in a program called "nilam," which gives them weekly time in the library in order to read books. From those books, they are asked to fill out information about various things like author, character names, etc.

Jimmy's program is similar to this program, except it's reading without the chore. It's more geared towards reading with a friend (PAL) for enjoyment. The ultimate goal of this program is for the students to understand that reading does not have to be a chore and can be fun and enjoyable.

One month into the program and the students are really responding positively. The vast majority of students are on-time for this early morning event and they are also on-task.

It is the hope of Jimmy that SK Bangau will continue this reading program long after TELL2 is finished; and it looks like that is exactly what is happening!

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As we come into the last months of TELL2, mentakab mentors Martina and Jimmy are still working hard at their projects. One of the projects that Martina and Jimmy have been doing all year has been reading and writing workshops. Martina and Jimmy have been doing these workshops for all of their schools in their clusters.

As the year draws to a close, Martina and Jimmy have been going around their schools and scheduling "top-up" workshops. These are the same workshops with a different group of students. The benefit to repeating these workshops is to introduce a new group of students to these skills and remind teachers/mentees of how helpful the skills from the workshops can be when those skills are used frequently.

Below is a workshop done in SJKT Ladang Semantan.

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