Almost Trapped
At Bookworm our vision in practice is to take stories to children in diverse contexts to engender what Pat Mora calls ‘bookjoy’. It is close to fifteen years of this work on the ground and it surprised me to realise I felt trapped by a web of our own making. After weeks of deliberation by […]
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Bookworm at Parents Teacher Meetings
Ideally the main objective of a Parent Teacher Meeting should be to create a common platform for both parents and teachers to come together to discuss the children’s performance and to devise and share new methods to enrich the children’s learning experiences. I have learnt over the years that this is not so. Our schools […]
Experiencing story Read Alouds in a new way
One of the things that I like the most about the Libraries in Schools (LiS) program is reading aloud a story to the children. This is something that I enjoy because I like stories and sharing them with children makes me feel good. This year instead of just focusing on making sure I am reading […]
Book Talk
Book Talk (BT) is an important component of our library practice. What is a Book Talk? Book Talk is when you talk about a book that you have read and liked very much, a book that has touched your heart. You now talk about that book to others building a curiosity in them to want […]
Something very magical happens when you read a good book – JK Rowling
I agree as I have seen the happiness and joy on the faces of children and adults alike when they are reading a book and enjoying it. This joy is nothing short of magic. A library is a space which holds a lot of magic and this magic has to be spread amongst children and […]
The Story of Ferdinand- propaganda literature !
Year after year The Story of Ferdinand remains timeless and much loved and we do not cease to be amazed by how this story captures the minds and hearts of children across all our schools. Munro Leaf wrote The Story of Ferdinand in less than an hour one rainy fall afternoon over 80 years ago […]
LEC Contact 2
It was already June and the Bookworm Team realized that LEC 2019 Contact 2 was just a month away! The Team huddled to plan, prepare and get ourselves and our Library ready to welcome the participants to Contact 2. Faculty prepared for their sessions and sent out reading and resources lists, Visiting Resource Persons were […]
Enabling Critical Thinking Through Reader Response Activities- a journey in the planning
This year as the Library team sat together to plan the syllabus, we discussed and decided to change some things going forward in the programs that we do. One of the interesting changes to be incorporated was to look at our reader response activities. We always did these activities in the Libraries in School program […]
So many ways to see, and so many more ways to relate …
Written by Swetha Nambiar, LEC 2019 Have you seen a cat ? Have you seen a child see a cat ? Have you seen a dog see a cat ? Have you seen a fish, a rat or a bee see a cat ? You can, if you pick up “They all saw a cat” […]