Our programs and campaigns build self-confidence, promote leadership, and strengthen children and their communities. LitWorld's LitClub and LitCamp programming cultivate a new generation of leaders, storytellers and academic achievers, effecting change for themselves, their communities, and their world. Our campaigns mobilize children and adults from around the world to advocate for literacy as a human right that belongs to all people.
Join Pam Allyn on Scholastic’s Facebook page from 4pm ET to 4:45pm on March 7th, 2012 as she hosts a live chat — live from The Scholastic Store! She’ll be answering your questions, offering prompts and ideas of my own, and talking about her tips and experiences reading aloud to kids.
And, join the conversation on Twitter with #readaloud and by following us on @litworldsays.
World Read Aloud Day is one week away! To help get you ready, here are your Top 7 Actions for an incredible WRAD!
1. Host a Book Swap Bash with your friends and bring short pieces to read that make people laugh.
2. Gather a group of children, donate some books and stay awhile to read them together.
3. Change your social media avatars to the WRAD Badge to rally your friends and colleagues!
4. Spread the word: Write about WRAD on your Facebook, Twitter, or Blog.
5. Head to our Activity Page where you can download our flyers, worksheets, recommendations, certificates, and more to fill your World Read Aloud Day with action, excitement and learning!
6. Make sure on this day that you read to your own family or loved ones or find a new friend to read to!
7. Upload your photographs & videos from your World Read Aloud Day celebration on our WRAD Upload Page.
Check out this video of Jerusalem preparing for World Read Aloud Day by reading Shel Silverstein's "Colors!"
World Read Aloud Day is three weeks away: Spread the Word!
Write about the event on your Facebook, Twitter, or Blog, and change your social media avatars to the WRAD Badge to rally your friends and colleagues to act for Global Literacy! Send our WRAD 2012 Kit to interested friends, family, and colleagues.
Check out the full schedule for our signature New York City WRAD event at Books of Wonder, which will feature read-aloud sessions by special guest authors (Walter Dean Myers, Katherine Paterson, and Peter Lerangis, to name a few!) and include exciting workshops on pop-up book making, spoken word poetry, creative writing, and more. Each child will receive one free ticket to win an awesome prize from our ongoing WRAffle, and Clifford the Big Red Dog will be present. So should you! Those who cannot make the event will be able to watch the day's events streamed live online!
Please join us for a magical evening celebrating LitWorld's accomplishments and looking ahead to the exciting and innovative initiatives unfolding right now.
Thursday, May 10, 2012 ~ 6:30-9pm
The Metropolitan Pavilion
Metropolitan Suite, 2nd Floor
123 West 18th Street
New York, NY 10011
Cocktails, Hors D'oeuvres, Live Music, Paddle Raiser & Silent Auction
RSVP early on our LitWorld Gala 2012 page.
We at LitWorld love this quote, and we are pleased to share this with our community.
- By Kofi Annan (Ghanaian diplomat, secenth secretary-genearl of the United Nations, 2001 Nobel Peace Prize.) “Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty, and a building block of development, an essential complement to investments in roads, dams, clinics and factories. Literacy is a platform for democratization, and a vehicle for the promotion of cultural and national identity. Especially for girls and women, it is an agent of family health and nutrition. For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right.... Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential.”
Pam Allyn will be one of the renowned global experts speaking at the Pearson's National Summit on School Improvement on February 9-11 in Orlando, Florida. The conference will be focused on school leadership, change management and implementing sustainable systemwide change.
Pam will be examining Common Core State Standards as a lever and a tool for transforming classroom life as states transition to fewer, higher standards to ensure that students are college- and career-ready.
The conference also includes case study and best practices in school improvement seminars presented by current educators, sessions on implementing the Common Core effectively, as well as large session conversations and presentations focused on educator effectiveness, continuous improvement, and increasing teacher engagement.
This World Read Aloud Day, we invite our Global Community to ponder on the question, "What Would the World be Like if Everyone Could Read?" Above, view some responses from adults to children alike, and hear their perspectives on how reading could transform the world for the better. Then, it's YOUR turn! Share your written responses and video links with LitWorld on Facebook (facebook.com/litworld) and Twitter (twitter.com/litworldsays)! We'd love to share on our website! We look forward to hearing what you have to say!
Nineteenth-century German Jewish poet Heinrich Heine wrote in his 1820-1821 play Almansor, "Dort, wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen": Where they burn books, they will also ultimately burn people.
In the wake of yesterday's incredible "Internet Blackout" over the disturbing SOPA and PIPA bills, we are left thinking deeply about censorship. Recently, Tucson banned a set of books that represent the diverse community that makes up this country. We at LitWorld are outraged by the actions being taken in Tucson. These books share important lessons, theories, and ideologies, and banning them in school is an injustice to our students. We embrace the diversity of our country, and we believe that all stories have the right to be heard. Our students deserve an education that allows for the representation of a diverse cultural history that reflects the beauty of our multi-ethnic society.
As we officially take a stand against the Tucson book banning, we encourage you, our community, to go out and support the 7 books that are being banned:
Critical Race Theory, by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic
500 Years of Chicano History in Pictures, edited by Elizabeth Martinez
Message to Aztlán, by Rodolfo Corky Gonzales
Chicano! The History of the Mexican Civil Rights Movement, by F Arturo Rosales
Occupied America: A History of Chicanos, by Rodolfo Acuña
Pedagogy of the Oppressed, by Paulo Freire
Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years, by Bill Bigelow
Please buy copies of these books today, encourage your friends to do the same, and spread the message that book banning is no way to teach our children.
We hope you will stand with us in protecting our students' rights to access these important, groundreaking books that will fuel their education.
Friday, March 2, 2012 at 2:14PM