A Passage a Day

A Passage A Day
Type of site
Online-reading, educational web learning platform
OwnerNew Horizon Education & Research Ltd.
Created byProfessor Ho Man Koon (CUHK / HKIER)
URLprof-ho.com/reading

A Passage A Day (Chinese: 每日一篇) is a Chinese language reading scheme for all primary and secondary schools in Hong Kong, founded by Ho Man Koon of the Hong Kong Institute of Educational Research, The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2000.

History

Between January and May 2004, there were approximately 5.5 million visits each day.

It is the most populated web learning platform in Hong Kong.

Usage

The scheme helps pupils and students to read regularly, tactically, rapidly and to widen their knowledge horizon by providing a new article with three questions daily.

  • Its articles are assigned according to their grade levels.
  • The user will read their assigned article and answer 3 multiple choices questions daily.
  • The reading record is kept for tracking and assessment by teachers and the users themselves.
  • Each student or school involved in this programme is given a school ID number, user ID number and a user password.
  • The system will get points to the user which equals to the number of words having read; there is a ranking table with the distribution of points of the students' (users) class and those of the same grade.