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| Welcome to Boston BookPALS! | |
BookPALS is in its sixth year in the greater Boston area and we’ve received rave reviews from teachers and students!
Few children learn to love books on their own. Someone has to lure them into the wonderful world of the written word; someone has to show them the way. Our BookPALS mission is to spread the love of books, the joy of reading and the hope of literacy. Who better than an actor, gifted in the art of storytelling, to bring the magic of stories to life for children?
Professional actors, theatre students and retired teachers donate their time to read in at –risk, public, inner city elementary schools. We develop a schedule that is most convenient for you. Boston BookPALS also read at school special events and literacy festivals as well. Additionally, BookPALS read aloud to pediatric patients at the Massachusetts General Hospital.
Learning begins with the gift of reading. A child who can read is a child who can dream about the future and make that dream come true. By reading a rich selection of different books, BookPALS open up the world and expose children to different experiences. More than helping children to read better, more than giving them the example of good writing, more than developing their imaginations, when BookPALS read aloud to children, they are helping them to find themselves and to discover some meaning in the scheme of things.
Join over 150 Boston actors who are already BookPALS. Here’s a wonderful opportunity to practice your dramatic skills, using your voice, body and imagination, and to make a real difference in a child’s life. Your connection with children through BookPALS will also reinforce your joy of living. Through children, we gain new insights into life and it is this constant learning which replenishes our “well of youthfulness.” Reading aloud to children will change their lives forever…and may give you many unexpected rewards as well!
You can become a BookPAL by contacting Jane Turner Michael,
Boston BookPALS Coordinator, by Phone at 978-369-7626 or by
E-mail at JTMconcord@aol.com
Latest News & Updates:
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Saturday, April 02 2005 @ 09:07 PM EST
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BookPALS partners with Harvard’s Graduate School of Education and with Cambridge School Volunteers to read one-on-one, bi-weekly, to students in two second grade classes at the King School in Cambridge. BookPALS is in its fourth year of involvement in this successful “Reading Buddies” program.
Boston BookPALS Coordinator Jane Turner Michael with reading buddy in Cambridge.
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Saturday, April 02 2005 @ 09:06 PM EST
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Boston BookPALS continued it’s involvement in Massachusetts General Hospital’s ongoing Healing Arts program. The Mission of the Healing Arts Group is "to enhance the healing process of the children who inspire us every day by bridging their burdens of illness with the rich rewards of fantacy and art". Using the healing power of literature, BookPALS have brought the written word to life, providing hope and joy to young pediatric patents.
Carl Schwaber hams it up for pediatric patients at MassGeneral.
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Saturday, April 02 2005 @ 09:04 PM EST
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On March 2, 2005 Boston BookPALS joined Read Across America to commemorate Dr. Seuss’ 101st birthday in a wonderful partnership to promote literacy and the love of reading. Classrooms of children across the city donned paper Cat in the Hat hats and BookPALS introduced them to the wonderful, whimsical characters of Theodor Seuss Geisel, who was a native of Springfield, Massachusetts.
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