Edition 119 Sesotho, English - Goals for a new year

Sep 18, 2026

A bilingual reading-goals supplement for children for the new year. It explains how to help children set reading goals that are truly their own, emphasizing motivation and making goals achievable. It provides guidance to record goals, suggests a manageable number of goals for the year, and offers extensive example goals such as reading more regularly, choosing new authors and topics, exploring biographies, using libraries, joining clubs, writing stories, and reading books behind movies. It also notes where the supplement is available in newspaper term times.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryLifestyle

FormatPDF

Pages16

Reading Time25 min

AccessFree to download

Goals for a new year

Helping children set achievable reading goals

Recording goals and enjoying reading

Example reading goals

Edition 119 Sesotho, English Goals for a new year The beginning of a new year is always a goodtime to think about what you want to experience and achieve over the next twelve months. Have you thought about helping your children set reading goals for themselves for 2017? Motivation plays a big part in children’s reading lives. It is the thing that makes them want to learn to read in the first place and then keeps them reading, thereby making reading for enjoyment a habit! So, when you think about helping your children to decide on their reading goals, they have to be their goals. They have to be things they want to experience and achieve for themselves – not things they think will please you. Here are some suggestions of some of things your children may want to try in 2017 – but they may have plenty of their own ideas too. Dipheo tsa selemo se setjha Ho qala haselemosesetjhakamehlake nakoentleya ho nahana katseore batlang ho kopanale tsona bophelong lehodifihleladikgweding tse leshome le metsoemmedi tse latelang. Naokilewanahana kaho thusabana bahao hoipehela dipheo tsa ho bala bakeng sa 2017? Kgothaletso e na le seabo se seholo maphelong a bana a ho bala. Keyona ntho e baetsang hore ba batle ho bala mme ba dule ba ntse ba bala, e leng ho etsang hore ho balla boithabiso e betlwaelo! Kahoo, ha o nahana ka hothusa bana ba hao ho etsa qeto ka dipheo tsa bona tsa ho bala, di lokela ho ba dipheo tsa bona. Di lokela ho ba dintho tseo babatlang ho kopana le tsona bophelong le ho di fihlela ka bobona – e seng dintho tseo banahanang hore di tla o thabisa. Tsena ke ditlhahiso tsa tse ding tsa dintho tseo bana ba hao ba ka batlang ho di lekaka 2017–empa ba ka nna ba eba le dikgopolo tse ngatatseo e lengtsa bona. The trick with setting goals isto make sure that they are not completely unachievable. This means not setting too many goals and making sure that they are within your reach. About four or five reading goals for the year is enough! Your children could use the reading goals poster on page 2 of this supplement to record their goals, or they could write them down in their own way. (You can also download additional copies of the poster from“Story supplies” on [www.nalibali.org](www.nalibali.org).) Whichever they choose, make sure they have fun doing it–and, of course, that they enjoy reading in 2017! Bohlale ka ho ipeheladipheo ke hoetsa bonnete ba hore hadi kgone hofihlelleha ka hophethahala. Sena se bolela hose ipehele dipheo tse ngata haholo le ho netefatsa horeotla kgona hodifihlella. Dipheo tse ka bang nne kapa hlano bakeng saselemo se leseng di lekane! Bana ba hao ba ka sebedisa phoustaraya dipheo tsa ho bala e leqephengla 2 latlatsetsoena ho rekota dipheo tsa bona, kapa ba ka di ngola fatshe ka moo ba batlang kateng. (Hapeo ka jarolladikhopitsedingtsa phoustara ho“Story supplies” [ho](ho www.nalibali.org)[ www.nalibali.org](ho www.nalibali.org).) Ebang ba kgethaefe kapaefe, etsa bonnete ba hore ba natefelwa ke hoetsa seo–mme, ehlile, le hore banatefelwa ke ho balaselemong sa 2017! F Reading more regularly or ata regular time each day. F Reading fora certain length of time everyday. F Reading books by an author that is new to them. F Reading as many of the books by their favourite author as they can. F Reading information on topics that are newto them. F Reading the biography of a person who interests them. F Visiting the library regularly–or joining one! F Starting a reading club with some friends, where they swap books and get together at eachother’s homes to chat about books they’ve enjoyed reading. F Writing a story of their own. (If they need help getting going, you can find the opening lines to stories in the“Story seeds”section of the“Story and rhyme library”on the Nal’ibali website–[www.nalibali.org](www.nalibali.org. Your children)[. Your children](www.nalibali.org. Your children)[ ](www.nalibali.org. Your children)can use these asthe start to their stories and complete the

FAQs

Why is motivation important for children’s reading goals?

Motivation drives children to want to learn to read and helps them keep reading, making reading for enjoyment a habit.

How should reading goals be chosen for the year?

Goals should be the children’s own—things they want to experience and achieve—rather than ideas meant to please others. Keep the number of goals manageable.

What kinds of reading goals are suggested in the supplement?

Suggestions include reading more regularly or for a set time daily, trying books by new authors, reading information on new topics, reading biographies, visiting or joining a library, starting a reading club, and writing stories.

Sep 18, 2026

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