Story Books in the Reading Life of Your Child by Sujata Noronha #Takshila
In this session titled ‘Story Books in the Reading Life of Your Child’, our speaker Sujata Noronha dwells on the indispensability of good literature for children. Follow Takshila Educational Society Website: http://takshila.net/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/takshilaeducationalsociety/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNNpRmI_M0k19w57cU9B1Qg and https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSCQval2fcIfKEY1KGxuLpg/featured Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/takshila.india/
Reading Circle Discussion Group
We invite you to join us in reading this powerful text together. If there is a time to discuss a book – this is that time and this is one of the books that will enable us to understand racism through systems of power. If you have a copy of the book, our reading guide […]
Why Library ‘Report’ Cards are important to children
The word report carries a lot of weight. For example, if it is a medical report the patient has to wait for the doctor to analyse it and proceed accordingly. A college report decides a student’s future course of action. In a school report card, parents and children get a view of how the child […]
Mutation, Permutation
I first came to Bookworm Library a day after 2020 began. At a crossroads in the Portuguese-era neighbourhood of Fontainhas, Panjim, between the Ourem creek and the Altinho hill steps down which a painted river cascades, is a white-walled, blue-trimmed, pitch-roofed treasure of a library. It used to be a school, but now it houses […]
LIBRARY IN LOCKDOWN
March began like any other month. The team at Bookworm was busy with our Library in Schools program, we were in communities reading and interacting with children through our Mobile Outreach Program, activities were being planned at our Library and we had begun preparing for our Library Educators Course which was a little more than […]
Are the Children Alright? Am I?
I was locked down for over six weeks in a home with no children. As I looked out onto the road, I would see a man on a bike, a woman on a bike, an occasional car driven by a woman or more often a man,but I never saw a child. I was beginning to miss the […]
From Lockdown Library by Bookworm Trust – Episode 005 with guest Sushil Shukla
Hosted by Nayan Mehrotra and Anandita Rao Links mentioned in the podcast Room To Read – https://www.roomtoread.org/ Azim Premji Foundation – Talk Series They have conducted two sessions so far. One with Hriday Kant Dewan and another with Arvind Gupta. – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJrRM-sC7Fs Tata Trusts – https://www.tatatrusts.org/#search Hamidullah’s Library Initiative – reaching out to children […]
A place that fosters Growth and Learning
Written by Nayan Mehrotra You dream of a place and a company of people, and then, if they become part of your life, how would you feel? It’s been just a month since I joined but I feel I have been part of Bookworm since a long period of time. Looking back, I am trying […]
What we have been doing during the lockdown:
In this time of social isolation, we have been engaged in a number of long distance activities and discussions. Sharing some of these below. About Stories Like the fish that is not aware of the water, in our day to day work, we rarely pause to think about stories. The lockdown enabled us to offer […]
Literacy Playground
Amidst the COVID-19 lockdown, schools and others, through parents are enabling learning using digital media. How does this work? Does it work for everyone? In the last few weeks, we have been reflecting on the inequity of the digital divide and sharing an infographic to help us all think together for a way forward. 1) […]