A Day with Thathu…
Friday. St. Thomas Girls Primary School, Aldona. It’s a writing week in LiS schools. This means that our focus for the extension activity is to facilitate the kids to produce text on their own. For this particular class in Std. 3, I have (for some unapparent reason) chosen to do Days with Thathu. This is […]
Bookworm Jumble Sale 2014-Ready-Steady-Go!
Dr. Good Book is doing the rounds…
I like books, you like books Board books, Big books, Picture books, If it’s torn and worn or rift apart too, You know what you have to do. … this has been the song for the week gone by. In the weeks gone by, as the process of book-goes-out-book-book comes-in carries on, more and more, […]
Reading “The dot” at the Mobile Outreach Program
A dot is not necessarily an important thing in the life of literacy. Or so we think. I asked the children at MOP what they would call a dot and they said point, spot, circle, round, full stop, end point, bindi and finally we got dot. Why the fuss? Wise story participants that they are, […]
How Our Students Chose to End The Musical Donkey…
What words you can find from CUCUMBER PLANT? ‘I know! I know! words like P-u-t Put, A-n-t Ant, U-p Up’, so on. But you know I got some very interesting words from the students which I would have not thought of, the words like camel, bear, pear, even Amruta a girl’s name from Smt. Sunandabai […]
Raising Money to Raise Readers by Recycling and Reusing – Bookworm Jumble Sale on 9th February
Jumble Sale 2014
Bookworm’s Jumble Sale supports our Libraries in Schools program which takes library experience and resources to 20+ schools in different parts of Goa where we do interventions in different models. We deliver over 3000+ books to the schools we work. More about Jumble sale of previous years are available at https://www.bookwormgoa.in/2013/02/13/thank-you-for-supporting-jumble-sale-2013-we-are-doing-chimbel-jumble-sale/ https://www.bookwormgoa.in/2012/12/28/jumble-sale-jumble-sale-jumble-sale/
Go Bindi Su!
The little red car that Milan created and then painted into a book with us is driving into classrooms this week. Bindi Su revved up and showed up at St Thomas Boys School and it was a good place to be. A classroom full of boys were delighted to find a car in a book […]
Stories in Graded Readers
The graded / levelled reader has long been criticized for its artificial chunking and arrangement of text. Readers of this nature have been cited as the texts that destroy the natural ability to make meaning whilst reading and often lead the ‘reader’ into a fine pattern of breaking up words and decoding them. Sing Mother […]
Shivaji’s Exposure visit to Bookworm
We have been waiting for Shivaji a long time. This is Shivaji Godhraj, a gentleman who works hard and quietly in the hilly terrain of Dhadgaon Nandurbar District , Maharashtra. I have been particularly wanting to bring Shivaji to Goa to share our library work with him as he works with an organisation Janarth that […]