Students produce a radio show to improve reading skills
By Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo TAMBOGRANDE, Peru – The Miraflores Alto’s 15220 elementary school is fighting the low reading learning levels through a radio show released via streaming. But the different thing in the Project is that the students research, write, and produce. So, they promote the critic and creative thinking and through the format they have named Capsulitas de Opinión (Opinion Little Capsules). The Project was developed in 2019 and it is one of the 50 best selected across the nation by the Development for the Peruvian Education Fund, or Fondep as in Spanish, as part of its Transforming Ideas call. “The proposal and the strategy of my project responses to perform radio shows that allow the students to make scripts about interesting topics for the people, and generate an opinion trend by developing the critic and creative understanding,” the teacher Freddy Juárez García explains. He is the principal and only teacher of the school, underscoring that th