An Online Story Sharing Experience
The lockdown, sudden and complete, brought the library to a standstill, as we went from less programming to no programming, and finally had to put a stop to the return and borrowing of books as well. For the first few days after this abrupt halt, everyone retreated into themselves and their homes and sunk into […]
Seeking Blessings
I, word lover that I am have been hanging onto words like ‘mantras’ that must be chanted appropriately for units of time inorder to be heard. This will pass. It will not affect our work. Our vision is stronger than this time. How can libraries be irrelevant ? The children will return to us. We […]
Non Fiction and Read Aloud
Written by Bookworm Team Read Alouds as a mode of bringing students closer to texts, enhancing the story experience, strengthening comprehension, and benefitting reading achievements are established by bodies of research (Burns et al., 1998). Read Alouds enable students to listen to text voiced that may be beyond their immediate decoding level and their understanding […]
Displays: The Shift
A library is amongst many things a place for finding books to browse and read. Reading fills our minds with curiosity, transporting an individual to another world. On its shelves, the library holds precious books that could be overlooked at times. In order to open up the collection to our readers at Bookworm, we often […]
New Site – Live Happy
For the past two years Bookworm’s outreach sites have been listed as Chimbel, Cacra, Santa Cruz and Aldona. There has been a need to increase our outreach but no one on the team seemed able or willing to take up this initiative. Thankfully initiative comes to Bookworm. Beatriz Contreras Milla, who heard about Bookworm, immediately […]
Tomie dePaola and the Joy his stories brought
Unknown to us at the time, as Tomie dePaola passed away on the 30th of March 2020, amongst the Bookworm team, we were all reading and preparing for a book discussion on The Clown of God, one of our more charged and purposeful discussions of 2020. We read Nana Upstairs Nana Downstairs to hundreds of school children every […]
Things that can help make a story experience better
While planning for a Read Aloud or a Storytelling session, there is a need to think of ways that can bring the children closer to the story by allowing them to experience it in an interesting manner. Some of the things that worked during my sessions at Bookworm’s Mobile Outreach Program community library at Chimbel, […]
Home visit turned into community visit
Back story As children, we never had our teachers coming home, for any reason, be it our progress reports or our syllabus reports or even just a cordial interaction with our parents. The concept of home visits was fairly new to us when we realised we need to do them as a community building experience […]
LIBRARY TRAINING AND MENTORING PROGRAM 2019-20 Sharing Learnings and Experience
9th March 2020 will be remembered as one of the most memorable moments in Bookworm because it is the day where 15 teachers were felicitated for participating and completing Bookworm’s ‘Training and mentoring program’. it was a privilege to be with these teachers on their journey of learning more about library and how this work […]
The memories of Yo Ya Vachuya
Reading can be for joy, to be informed, to learn new words, to be transported into imaginary worlds and much more. Reading allows children to wander through their own imagination. It helps them develop language and listening skills in addition to helping them understand. So, Yo Ya Vachuya, which means ‘Come Lets Read’ sessions that […]