Bookworm Trust

Fund raising at Bookworm

For the past 5 of the 7 years of Bookworm, efforts to fund raise by way of a giant jumble sale have been organised. The purpose was  to keep alive the core of Bookworms’ work – The Mobile Outreach Program and The School Book Treasury Program. These programs help over a thousand children across Goa […]

Learning Lessons

I have been thinking hard about teacher education, teacher framework, teacher training , teachers as both people and professionals. At Bookworm, we struggle to be educators who both understand the pedagogy and the content of literature based literacy instruction and the knowing that we are not part of the system yet work within it to […]

All in a day’s work

The School Book Treasury is on the go! One of our projects involves conducting a weekly intervention in the 3rd grade classes of 3 schools to assess the correlation between reading and literacy. Having begun in Auxilium High School, the next on our list was Ideal High School. In the 2 weeks that I’ve been […]

Workshop at Lemon Tree Public School, Taleigao

Lemon Tree Public Schools in Taleigao is now a part of the School book Treasury! Bookworm was invited to do a workshop for their preschool teachers on the 21st of July. The objective of this workshop was to create a system that facilitated a better reading habit and also, to use books more fruitfully in […]

Gurukul Academy join The School Book Treasury

Gurukul Academy invited Bookworm to organise a workshop. The main objective was that Gurukul Academy wishes to set up an active library program in the school and wanted all stakeholders in parents and teachers to be appraised of the same. The workshop was held on Saturday 24th June, 2012 Resourced by Sujata Noronha and titled […]

Extending stories in the classroom to link with literacy and learning.

Eleven educators who work in classrooms in Goa, met  at Bookworm to consolidate activities for story extension in the classroom. Objective: Create a Resource Book for Story extension ideas for teachers and others to use  once read aloud is done in the classroom. To pilot the activities in School Book Treasury Classrooms through observations, demonstrations, […]

School Book Treasury 2011-12 Summary

School Book Treasury features include: 1. Book exchange on a monthly basis. 2. Interaction with the teacher about the nature/type of books that are preferred 3. Sharing with the teacher about the book box being renewed, nature, type, link with curriculum. 4. A story session with extension activity when it fits into the school time […]