Big Brother Mouse

31 March, 2014, Namnyang Village, Xayaboury Province, Laos

Launching a Reading Program: For our reading program, we give enough books to each classroom in the school so that children can read every day. Often called "Sustained Silent Reading", this approach develops reading skills, a love of reading, and a habit of reading. We launch the program with a book party, show here. For one full morning or afternoon, our team reads aloud, talks about books, leads outdoor games, and teaches songs about books and reading. At the end, every child gets to choose a book of their own, in addition to the books we leave in the classrooms.

This event was sponsored by Lyle and Agnes Schaller (United States). Thank you!

Today, students at this school began their new daily reading program. Reading skills are very low; in the fourth photo most students are chosing books with just one sentence per page. But soon, these children will move on to other books.

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