Bookworm at Parents Teacher Meetings
Ideally the main objective of a Parent Teacher Meeting should be to create a common platform for both parents and teachers to come together to discuss the children’s performance and to devise and share new methods to enrich the children’s learning experiences. I have learnt over the years that this is not so. Our schools […]
Experiencing story Read Alouds in a new way
One of the things that I like the most about the Libraries in Schools (LiS) program is reading aloud a story to the children. This is something that I enjoy because I like stories and sharing them with children makes me feel good. This year instead of just focusing on making sure I am reading […]
Book Talk
Book Talk (BT) is an important component of our library practice. What is a Book Talk? Book Talk is when you talk about a book that you have read and liked very much, a book that has touched your heart. You now talk about that book to others building a curiosity in them to want […]
Something very magical happens when you read a good book – JK Rowling
I agree as I have seen the happiness and joy on the faces of children and adults alike when they are reading a book and enjoying it. This joy is nothing short of magic. A library is a space which holds a lot of magic and this magic has to be spread amongst children and […]
The Story of Ferdinand- propaganda literature !
Year after year The Story of Ferdinand remains timeless and much loved and we do not cease to be amazed by how this story captures the minds and hearts of children across all our schools. Munro Leaf wrote The Story of Ferdinand in less than an hour one rainy fall afternoon over 80 years ago […]
Enabling Critical Thinking Through Reader Response Activities- a journey in the planning
This year as the Library team sat together to plan the syllabus, we discussed and decided to change some things going forward in the programs that we do. One of the interesting changes to be incorporated was to look at our reader response activities. We always did these activities in the Libraries in School program […]
The Late Flight
In our collective pursuit at Bookworm to extend our reach in Goa, we have finally ( after over 8 years of school outreach work) felt bold enough to invite teachers into our circle of learning. We feel ready to share what works and what is sustainable during a school calendar to bring reading joy. In […]
Looking Ahead…
The academic year has begun and our Libraries in School (LiS) sessions have started last week. During the first school week we do not go into classes so as to give the children time to settle in and get used to the school schedule. In the second week, we enter the classrooms, book boxes and […]
Learning how to assess
In March, the last month of the academic year, the children in our Libraries in School program answer a library test. We call this the End line test. Here, a story is read out and then the children answer the test based on this story. We designed the test to assess the children’s comprehension and […]
A road to learn….
John Patrick Norman McHennessy is a lovely story which is written and illustrated by John Burningham and was originally published in the year 1987. This uniquely illustrated story tells us about a boy, John Patrick Norman McHennessy, who hurries off along the road to learn. He looks forward to learn everyday but incidents on the way […]