Introduction

"Let's Read: A Reading Promotion Programme Through Gamification" arises from a need, which is to develop a reading plan that encourages reading for pleasure for students increasingly reluctant to read both in their native language and in second language.

Today's teenagers prefer other leisure and free time activities, such as video games or even board games, so it is necessary to define methods of reading promotion that use the techniques that stimulate the loyalty of these games and incorporate them in the curriculum for the development of reading. This is gamification, to introduce techniques and dynamics of games into non-ludic contexts, such as education.

Therefore the main objective of our project is to promote reading in students, in order to develop their creativity, critical and divergent thinking, prevent failure and school dropout and at the same time to do so through an international project that allows us to share good practices on reading promotion with other schools in Europe, learning to work in teams in international contexts and developing active citizenship and a sense of belonging to a united Europe.

During the next two years, we will analyze the different elements of gamification, starting from the "narratives" which are the context stories in which the different gamified activities are inserted, the types of players, the reward systems, and the dynamics. At each mobility, in which 5 students from each country will participate, together with the host students, we will focus on one of these elements, and using design-thinking as the work methodology, we will design our own gamified reading program based on the interest of the students. These dynamics will be put into practice in different countries upon completion of the mobilities.