9 April, 2013, Nanork Village, Xayaboury Province, Laos
Book party: At book parties we read from books, play games, and sing songs. At the end of each book party, every student gets to choose a book, usually the first book they've ever owned. Then we give more to the school.
Our book parties have two goals. First, we get children excited about books. (Previously, most of them had seen textbooks, but never a book they were eager to read.) Second, we observe closely, to see what books are most avidly read, what's needed, and what techniques help spread a love of reading.
This event was sponsored by Susan Nagel (United States). Thank you!
In the last picture, the girl on the left is reading The Big Chicken, a book intended for very early readers.
The Lao alphabet is more complex than English. There are 26 consonants (or 27, or 30, or 33, depending on how you count certain things). They are each one single symbol. This is the "alphabet" that children learn first.
Then there are more than 30 vowels, made from about 15 symbols which can go on any side of the consonant. Two or three symbols may combine for one sound; many symbols are use in more than one sound. That's where it gets tricky.
The Big Chicken is for children who have learned the consonants, but are still working on those vowels. It's a story with a plot, which introduces just one vowel at a time. That vowel is used on several pages in a row, so children can learn it before moving on to another.
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