Robin Roy, Director of Literacy Programs for the Screen Actors Guild Foundation, demonstrates a read aloud at Arizona BookPALS year end luncheon.
Arizona BookPALS was delighted to have Robin Roy, National Director of Literacy Programs, visit our branch for our year end celebrations. Robin also runs the LA BookPALS program and is a BookPALS reader herself. Robin attended our PencilPALS party and also our BookPALS Appreciation Luncheon. She showed us how it’s done! What a fun read aloud. Thank you Robin…see next page for video
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Junior BookPALS, a part of the SAG BookPALS literacy program, teaches students the skills of reading aloud. A BookPALS volunteer reads for several months to a class of students demonstrating the do’s and don’ts of reading aloud. The students practice with each other before trying their hand reading to classes of younger children. Everyone benefits from this program. The older students get to prepare material for the younger students. This is a good chance for below grade level readers to approach material at their own grade level and master it. The younger students look up...
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Read MoreJune Read Aloud Booklist
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