![]() Our trained Words Alive volunteers facilitate book discussions, writing workshops, and projects to help bring the books alive. Our ABG program serves teenagers in alternative schools who have faced extraordinary circumstances such as violence, pregnancy, and homelessness. Upcoming Curriculum for our Adolescent Book Group Program A big focus of this book is relating it to the students own lives: what do the students want to be when they grow up? Does it remind them of any other people they know who have worked to achieve equal rights? Relating a book to our reality helps bring the book to life and can make it a more memorable activity for students. Who Says Women Can’t be Doctors? describes Elizabeth Blackwell’s decision in the 1830s to become a doctor instead of a mother or housewife. As with most books at this level, our volunteers talk a lot about the book before reading it - what do the students think the story will be about? Where do they think the book is set? After reading the book, some topics of discussion will be idioms included in the story as well as what lessons were learned. This book follows Gerald the Giraffe’s journey from a self-conscious to graceful dancer, including all of the animals and friends he meets along the way. Students are also given the chance to learn about and create their own silly alliterations and share their own Halloween costumes with their peers.Īnother book our volunteers are looking forward to reading is Giraffes Can’t Dance. While reading, our volunteers help students focus on rhyming, rhythm, and emotion. ![]() The book includes 15 different poems describing youngster’s Halloween celebrations, accompanied by bright illustrations. The goal is to bring enjoyment to the classroom through reading while helping children develop cognitive, language, and social-emotional skills.įor the month of October, we have a Halloween themed book titled Trick-or-Treat: A Happy Hunter’s Halloween. ![]() Rather than reading through each book and moving quickly on to the next, our volunteers bring the book to life by asking questions before, during, and after reading aloud to encourage the students to participate. Upcoming Curriculum for our Read Aloud ProgramĪlthough children’s books are generally shorter, we want to ensure that students get the most value out of each book we bring into the classroom. Here is a sneak peek of a few of the books we’ll be reading in each program this year! Providing students with diverse representation in books is so important in our programs and allows students to make connections between the books they read and their own lives. More than a third of people in the United States are non-white and they deserve to see themselves represented in literature as much as anyone else. By 2013, the numbers had only risen slightly to 10%. In 1965, The Saturday Review published “ The All-White World of Children’s Books” showing that only 6.7% of children’s books published in the past three years had included black characters. In our curriculum for both programs, we focus on new, diverse, and relevant texts so that students can see themselves represented in popular stories. Words Alive’s Adolescent Book Group and Read Aloud Program have started back up for the school year! We are excited for our volunteers to get back into the classroom and engage with students while reading and talking about books together.
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