Bookworm Trust

The Rain

In our work,  we constantly try to brainstorm and  develop various activities for children. We hope that this will  encourage children to pick a book to read with interest, challenge their abilities and help build their imagination. What better way to capture one’s feelings and emotions in this monsoon than with a Rain Display to […]

Collaborating in classrooms

Working in collaboration on one project teaches us team work and gives us the satisfaction that we have made a contribution to it. In schools, the children contribute their own little work of art as an extension activity to the Read Aloud Stories we do. This is our collaborative activity. At the end of the […]

CRAWLING By Apoorva Parab

Found myself in a book, big and boring.. No laughter, no innocence, no imagination, no stories.. Enough of law, enough of lexicons.. Packed my apple and went searching.. Blinded by the colours and happiness.. Deafened by sweet innocent laughs everywhere.. This is where I belong.. So many stories to crawl on.. But division was here […]

2 Days with Bookworm: Observing LIS and MOP and Learning

Written by Neeraj N 2 Days with Bookworm: Observing LIS and MOP and Learning Stealing When I began working with children, 3 years back, I read Gijubhai Badheka’s book ‘Divaswapna’. In the book he writes about the experiments he has done in a classroom of a government school and immensely stresses on the power of […]

Teaching with Cultural Diversity

Our classrooms are expected to be diverse. In our Libraries in Schools program, we carefully and very intentionally select our schools on a criteria of diversity and then proceed to embrace this range of utter un-uniformity. The ethos of ‘access to all’ is made real by choosing schools with a high density of children coming […]

Mae De Deus High School Library Inauguration

The picturesque island of Corjuem hosts the only co-ed high school in Aldona – Mae-de-Deus High School. Bookworm has been conducting sessions under its LiS (Libraries in Schools) Program in this school since September 2015. At the end of every academic year since then, the Principal and teachers of this school have always offered some […]

Of Storytelling; By a Storyteller

‘The greatest art in the world is the art of storytelling….’ With a few lines dramatized to perfection, and delivered in bold and confident strokes, Raj had all of us captive. Our ears and minds absorbed each word from her mouth, as they spoke through different characters; each pause pregnant with expectation. The captive audience […]

Press feature: For the love of reading

Bookworm in Goa is a creative space of constant and thoughtful engagement A library appears the most innocuous of spaces, and a children’s library doubly so. But Sujata Noronha, the director of Goa’s Bookworm Trust, knows differently. “Literacy is about reading the world, and not just the word,” she paraphrases Paulo Freire, the Brazilian educator, […]