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 ookPALS is a unique all-volunteer literacy program. Professional actors visit public elementary schools in local neighborhoods to read aloud to children every week. The world of literacy and literature is then opened to these children by the very people who can make books come alive through their talent and training.
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Tuesday, March 31 2009 @ 12:13 PM EDT
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Las Vegas BookPALS took students at four elementary schools on a Dr. Seuss adventure. Students at Kathy Batterman, Vegas Verdes, Ollie Detwiler and Reynoldo Martinez Elementary schools were treated to a reader's theatre version of "The Butter Battle Book".
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Tuesday, February 02 2010 @ 09:47 PM EST
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Jon Mindell, a volunteer actor with NY BookPALS (Performing Artists for Literacy in the Schools), dressed as Batman this year and visited several first grade classes at PS 111. This unique program was done last year and was such a huge hit that all first grade classroom teachers requested his visit this year.
Jon Mindell is pictured reading to one of the first grade classes.
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Monday, January 11 2010 @ 03:55 PM EST
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This past fall, Minnesota StoryLine celebrated its 10th year of recording stories, providing this free service throughout the Twin Cities metro area. With a new story recorded by a BookPALS volunteer every week, that's over 5,000 stories read to over 100,000 children! January & February 2010 will be our last two months with a theme and corresponding list of books. We will be featuring stories about saying goodbye, and have lined up some of our most dedicated readers, including Dan Geiger, Daniel Abdon, Michelle Berg and Adena Brumer. MN BookPALS coordinator Delta Giordano and MN StoryLine coordinator Patty McDonald will also be recording in January & February. You can continue to check the website, www.storylinemn.org, or call 952-352-1350 to hear a story. Many thanks to our technology partners, Black Box & VISI, and to our wonderful volunteers for making this past decade possible!
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Tuesday, December 08 2009 @ 02:23 PM EST
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by BookPAL/PencilPAL, Jan Godown Annino of Tallahassee, Florida
I don’t know what the children’s’ yesterday was like away from school
nor can I guess about their tomorrow
but in this moment of their morning -
some Fridays of
September
October
November
December
they turn faces up
with great expectations
Children waiting to receive
what Mr. Armstrong sings about –
“… a wonderful world.”
The Screen Actors Guild Foundation programs are paths for me to bring “a wonderful world” to young students in Florida. As a PencilPAL, I encourage both letter-writing and also art work on paper, about books, with a 4th grade student. As she writes:
“… now wonder you are good palls.”
BookPALS is also the path for me to bring to two classes, which serve multi-grade learners, a lively, no-cost presentation from an author who loves to read rhymes and other fast-paced text out loud.
I visit schools where the majority of students are eligible for a
sponsored lunch. So I understand that these children’s grown-ups aren’t bringing into the students’ home worlds, books in bookcases, maps on the walls, Audubon prints, original Florida nature photography, fabric art from Panama, sculpture, a globe, a basket of one-hand musical sound-makers, and other cultural totems of varied ways of expression in our “wonderful world.”
For a few moments during my visit, I hope a taunt of the neighborhood bully, a cussing from an older, angry sibling, a stinging rebuke from an unthinking grown up, is forgotten.
The children see words on the page running riot in Double Trouble in Walla Walla, and they hear the very proper, deep-voiced Principal Thomas, wearing his red tie and tweed jacket, speak nonsense:
“Eeentsy-beentsy, choo-choo, teeny-tiny
hurdy-gurdy, roly poly, rag-tag, hurly-burly
riff raff…”
c. 1997 Andrew Clements “Double Trouble in Walla Walla” The Millbrook Press
Hours later as I write a fifth revision of a book that’s still not coming out right, I take a break. I remember laughing little voices in class that morning, voices that grow successively louder each time they arrive at the part I assign them, voices that complete the end of a sentence with an increasingly exuberant, “Walla, Walla.”
This reminds me that they ask to hold the books I bring, they want me to leave the books behind in class. They would love to have them in their homes.
I take that for success: leaving them with a thirst for literature, one picture book at a time.
Jan Godown Annino
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Tuesday, December 08 2009 @ 02:22 PM EST
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PencilPALS gathered in Ms. Lewis's 4th grade class for holiday cookies and juice. Each student was presented with a book to read over the holiday break, as well as chocolate Santas, and snowmen candy canes. Special thanks to all the PencilPALS who made this visit extra special for the children: Sharon Berry, Maureen Bergondy-Wilhelm, Linda Bond, Lisa Derryberry, Joan Cross, Martha Darcey, Lisa Derryberry, and Sheryl Moore.
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