This is the presentation about the Habitat Children's Book Forum that we made at the IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People) Congress in London, August 2012.
Кachak: Reading as a tool of children's development from 6 monthsZoryana Kulyk
Reading as a tool of children's development
from 6 months:
project "All of Ukraine Reads to Kids"
Tetyana Kachak, candidate of Philology, Associate Professor of Precarpathian National University named after V.Stefanyk, member of the Ukrainian Research Center of Children’s and Youth Literature
Introducing the Nal'ibali reading-for-enjoyment campaignNal'ibali
Nal’ibali (isiXhosa for “here’s the story”) is a national reading-for-enjoyment campaign to spark children’s potential through storytelling and reading. Children who are immersed in great and well-told stories – and in languages they understand – become inspired and are motivated to learn to read for themselves. Such personally rewarding learning is a recipe for successful literacy development. Nal’ibali is driven by PRAESA (the Project for the Study of Alternative Education), Times Media and a growing number of partners. Through sustained mentoring and collaboration with communities, reading clubs, literacy organisations and volunteers of all ages, as well as a vibrant media campaign, Nal’ibali is helping to root a culture of literacy into the fabric of everyday life in South Africa.
Children literature: A Potent Tool in the Hands of Absentee ParentsIyabode Daniel
Children literature remains the focus of discussions among those concerned with the positive socialisation of children within the African society. However, how it can serve for the socialisation of children by the home has not been clearly understood. This paper discusses the tangible role children literature can play in the socialisation process. It specifically focuses on the way the absentee parent(s) can effectively use children literature as a tool of child training. It outlined the nature of children literature as it exists in the Nigerian society. It identified some important techniques such as didactism, journey motif, child abuse, characterisation, etc., which writers use to convey their messages in Nigerian children literature. It identified how writers use aesthetics to attract, keep and teach children the needed morality in the society. It concludes by outlining the way that the teacher/parent can effectively bring to life children literature to youngsters and thus engage it for positive socialisation of children within the African social milieu.
Lisa Shaia and Joanne Moore's Connecticut Library Association conference about year round collaboration. Develop a partnership with the school and public library.
Кachak: Reading as a tool of children's development from 6 monthsZoryana Kulyk
Reading as a tool of children's development
from 6 months:
project "All of Ukraine Reads to Kids"
Tetyana Kachak, candidate of Philology, Associate Professor of Precarpathian National University named after V.Stefanyk, member of the Ukrainian Research Center of Children’s and Youth Literature
Introducing the Nal'ibali reading-for-enjoyment campaignNal'ibali
Nal’ibali (isiXhosa for “here’s the story”) is a national reading-for-enjoyment campaign to spark children’s potential through storytelling and reading. Children who are immersed in great and well-told stories – and in languages they understand – become inspired and are motivated to learn to read for themselves. Such personally rewarding learning is a recipe for successful literacy development. Nal’ibali is driven by PRAESA (the Project for the Study of Alternative Education), Times Media and a growing number of partners. Through sustained mentoring and collaboration with communities, reading clubs, literacy organisations and volunteers of all ages, as well as a vibrant media campaign, Nal’ibali is helping to root a culture of literacy into the fabric of everyday life in South Africa.
Children literature: A Potent Tool in the Hands of Absentee ParentsIyabode Daniel
Children literature remains the focus of discussions among those concerned with the positive socialisation of children within the African society. However, how it can serve for the socialisation of children by the home has not been clearly understood. This paper discusses the tangible role children literature can play in the socialisation process. It specifically focuses on the way the absentee parent(s) can effectively use children literature as a tool of child training. It outlined the nature of children literature as it exists in the Nigerian society. It identified some important techniques such as didactism, journey motif, child abuse, characterisation, etc., which writers use to convey their messages in Nigerian children literature. It identified how writers use aesthetics to attract, keep and teach children the needed morality in the society. It concludes by outlining the way that the teacher/parent can effectively bring to life children literature to youngsters and thus engage it for positive socialisation of children within the African social milieu.
Lisa Shaia and Joanne Moore's Connecticut Library Association conference about year round collaboration. Develop a partnership with the school and public library.
The reader’s ghost. Books and libraries in teen’s imagination, by Beatrice El...Luisa Marquardt
The PPT Presentation concerns the videorecorderd speech by Beatrice Eleuteri, PhD Student at Roma Tre University in Rome, on "The reader’s ghost. Books and libraries in teen’s imagination".
Abstract (EN)
We often believe that a child, yet a young adult, only needs to be taught how to read and write for us to feel in the right to reproach him if he doesn’t actually do it or if he’s not really good at it.Well, knowing how to read is not enough to motivate reading. Reading is an “habitus”, a suit that could fit tight, or loose, that we need to try on a couple of times in the dressing room before choosing to buy it. The school library is a guest-house, a place in which kids, especially culturally deprived ones, must feel safe and welcome to talk about stories, experiences, opinions. A forum to meet books of course, but also readers. A workshop meant to sew our personal reader’s habitus, rejuvenating it from its old mousy image and preparing it for us to grow inside it.
Developmentally Appropriate Programming for Babies & ToddlersAmy Koester
Brooke Newberry and I gave a webinar for Infopeople exploring the developmental milestones of the youngest library patrons and how best to support their development through programming.
Presenter(s): Karen Larrick, Debbie Holmes, Rose Jinkins, Ben Bryson
Would you like to add a spark of excitement to your teen program next summer? Challenge your students to become published authors and give them the tools to accomplish the goal. With the help of mentors - professionals from the world of writing, illustration, and publishing - the Marshes of Glynn Libraries guided the Amazing Authors Club through this process during two camps, one in the summer of 2015 and one in 2016.
Unshelving the Human Learning Library at Your Institution (WILU 2012)Robyn Hall
Poster presented at WILU 2012 with Sona Macnaughton at MacEwan University in Edmonton, Alberta on May 24, 2012.
Abstract: Human Libraries are taking place all over the world as a means of bringing communities together to share diverse experiences and encourage understanding. At Red Deer College, librarians have discovered that using this event concept specifically as a professional development tool encourages dialogue and fosters growth and innovation in teaching and learning practices. This presentation will address the process librarians went through to organize and host this event, and the resulting benefits shared among teaching staff and student participants. Learn about how your own institution can encourage both instructors and students to take on the role of “living books” reflecting upon and sharing their teaching and learning strategies and inspiring their peers.
Kate McGuinn and Alison Sharman, University of Huddersfield
Broaden my Bookshelf (BMB) is an initiative to increase the range of authors represented in the University of Huddersfield Library. The main focus is on books written by marginalised people (e.g. from a Black, Asian or minority ethnic background and/or who identify as LGBT+). It was launched in October 2018 and is delivered in collaboration with the University of Huddersfield Students Union (UHSU). It grew out of our desire to work with UHSU on improving the quality and breadth of reading lists, along with a growing awareness of issues raised by the Why is my curriculum White? Campaign.
BMB also aims to encourage and assist lecturers to diversify their reading lists. This led to the creation of a Reading List Toolkit in 2020. The Toolkit provides a rationale for decolonising and diversifying reading lists with testimonies from minoritized students. It also includes a checklist for lecturers to self-assess their lists, also access to the BMB book collection and relevant journal collections as well as less traditional resources, including video playlists and podcasts.
Throughout the period since 2018 the BMB team has worked to raise awareness of the campaign by organising events such as panel debates and an author event with the author and photographer Johny Pitts. We have also taken BMB out to the schools of the university with “roadshow” events and gathered feedback from students about their experiences of the curriculum from a diversity perspective. We have also promoted BMB each new academic year using a variety of print and social media, including videos created by the UHSU Education and Equalities Officers. Our latest promotional event was a Human Library which we ran at the university Teaching and Learning Conference on 28th June 2023.
This presentation was delivered at Reimagining Higher Education: journeys of decolonising at De Montfort University, Leicester, on Wednesday 8th November 2023.
The reader’s ghost. Books and libraries in teen’s imagination, by Beatrice El...Luisa Marquardt
The PPT Presentation concerns the videorecorderd speech by Beatrice Eleuteri, PhD Student at Roma Tre University in Rome, on "The reader’s ghost. Books and libraries in teen’s imagination".
Abstract (EN)
We often believe that a child, yet a young adult, only needs to be taught how to read and write for us to feel in the right to reproach him if he doesn’t actually do it or if he’s not really good at it.Well, knowing how to read is not enough to motivate reading. Reading is an “habitus”, a suit that could fit tight, or loose, that we need to try on a couple of times in the dressing room before choosing to buy it. The school library is a guest-house, a place in which kids, especially culturally deprived ones, must feel safe and welcome to talk about stories, experiences, opinions. A forum to meet books of course, but also readers. A workshop meant to sew our personal reader’s habitus, rejuvenating it from its old mousy image and preparing it for us to grow inside it.
Developmentally Appropriate Programming for Babies & ToddlersAmy Koester
Brooke Newberry and I gave a webinar for Infopeople exploring the developmental milestones of the youngest library patrons and how best to support their development through programming.
Presenter(s): Karen Larrick, Debbie Holmes, Rose Jinkins, Ben Bryson
Would you like to add a spark of excitement to your teen program next summer? Challenge your students to become published authors and give them the tools to accomplish the goal. With the help of mentors - professionals from the world of writing, illustration, and publishing - the Marshes of Glynn Libraries guided the Amazing Authors Club through this process during two camps, one in the summer of 2015 and one in 2016.
Unshelving the Human Learning Library at Your Institution (WILU 2012)Robyn Hall
Poster presented at WILU 2012 with Sona Macnaughton at MacEwan University in Edmonton, Alberta on May 24, 2012.
Abstract: Human Libraries are taking place all over the world as a means of bringing communities together to share diverse experiences and encourage understanding. At Red Deer College, librarians have discovered that using this event concept specifically as a professional development tool encourages dialogue and fosters growth and innovation in teaching and learning practices. This presentation will address the process librarians went through to organize and host this event, and the resulting benefits shared among teaching staff and student participants. Learn about how your own institution can encourage both instructors and students to take on the role of “living books” reflecting upon and sharing their teaching and learning strategies and inspiring their peers.
Kate McGuinn and Alison Sharman, University of Huddersfield
Broaden my Bookshelf (BMB) is an initiative to increase the range of authors represented in the University of Huddersfield Library. The main focus is on books written by marginalised people (e.g. from a Black, Asian or minority ethnic background and/or who identify as LGBT+). It was launched in October 2018 and is delivered in collaboration with the University of Huddersfield Students Union (UHSU). It grew out of our desire to work with UHSU on improving the quality and breadth of reading lists, along with a growing awareness of issues raised by the Why is my curriculum White? Campaign.
BMB also aims to encourage and assist lecturers to diversify their reading lists. This led to the creation of a Reading List Toolkit in 2020. The Toolkit provides a rationale for decolonising and diversifying reading lists with testimonies from minoritized students. It also includes a checklist for lecturers to self-assess their lists, also access to the BMB book collection and relevant journal collections as well as less traditional resources, including video playlists and podcasts.
Throughout the period since 2018 the BMB team has worked to raise awareness of the campaign by organising events such as panel debates and an author event with the author and photographer Johny Pitts. We have also taken BMB out to the schools of the university with “roadshow” events and gathered feedback from students about their experiences of the curriculum from a diversity perspective. We have also promoted BMB each new academic year using a variety of print and social media, including videos created by the UHSU Education and Equalities Officers. Our latest promotional event was a Human Library which we ran at the university Teaching and Learning Conference on 28th June 2023.
This presentation was delivered at Reimagining Higher Education: journeys of decolonising at De Montfort University, Leicester, on Wednesday 8th November 2023.
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Slides from my SLANZA presentation outlining some of the excellent ideas for promoting reading for pleasure that I discovered during my scholarship trip to the UK in Feb/Mar 2017.
Parent Literacy
Childhood Education
Kaleena Springsteen
ECE 335 Children’s Literature
Carly Davenport
October 30, 2017
Importance of Reading to Young Children
Language skills.
The language used by the parents to the children tend to be repetitive and limited to vocabularies which are employed daily in addressing them. Thus, when the parents or the instructors read for the children, they enable them to have access to new vocabularies different from topics which comprise of more words and phrases which they do not hear on a daily basis. It also allows to learn new languages and develop the fluency when speaking.
Children lack the reading skills and therefore, it necessary to guide them. By that, the children will be able to achieve the following skills.
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Importance of Reading to Young Children
Improves cognitive abilities
Memory/Long-Term- enables a child to access stored information
Visual Processing- allows children to think in visual images
Improves concentration
Attention/Sustained- helps children stay focused
Attention/Selective- helps children ignore distractions
1. Reading exposes the child to various brain exercises. These activities provoke their brains and thus making them start thinking and understanding things from a broad point of view and develop their way of reasoning (Kalb, 2014).
2. Reading to young children on a daily basis enables them to sit still for long periods, and this will be beneficial as they join school. Usually a child is distracted easily by their surrounding.
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Benefits of Reading to Young Children
It develops the child’s imagination and creativity
Helping your child to become creative opens their minds up for great possibilities
Reading is a form of entertainment.
Have one or two nights a week for reading then make up games to go along with the story
It builds strong relationship between the parent and the child.
When parent spends time by his/her child bedside reading a book, this creates a bond between the them. Building a bond can help children grow emotionally.
1. When the parents read to their children, they provoke their mind to think about the characters, the setting to understand the flow of the story. Through that, the children are able to improve the way they choose ideas and think or imagine.
2. For instance, when reading comic books they present funny events which make the children enjoy the story and even respond to questions.
3. Sitting down with you child at the end of the day to read, helps both the parent and the child unwind and relax.
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Resources for Story/Music Time
Films
There are various films performed purposely targeting the children. They present funny stories, entertaining events, and music for preschoolers. The movie can be a source of stories and music times that are recited to the children.
Linguistic books/novels
Reading of the linguistic books to children help them learn about their native language quickly. This will enable the children to unde.
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1. ON THE BOOK TRAIL IN DELHI
the habitat children's book forum
DEEPA AGARWAL & DEVIKA RANGACHARI
2. Why the HCBF was needed
City parents have little time to introduce children to books.
Delhi has barely two well-functioning children’s libraries.
No ongoing networking structure between children, authors and
books
The book distribution network remains woefully inadequate
Children’s bookshops are few and far between
Children’s books hardly ever receive publicity
Budding and enthusiastic readers are left with very little book-
related information
Consequently, many likely readers turn away from books to easily
available distractions like TV or computer games.
It was important to emphasize the pleasure aspect of reading. Many
Indian children believe books are only meant to impart knowledge.
3. Why the India Habitat Centre
Among the aims and objectives of this
Centre is to:
“Inculcate better awareness and
sensitivity in regard to all aspects of
creative human activity including the
significance of art in habitat.”
IHC provides space for talks,
discussions as well as music and
theatre.
Thus a centrally located venue in this
crowded city, provided free of cost, was
assured to us.
Habitat Programmes would feature our
sessions in their monthly calendar .
Offer other support in the way of
mailing and the equipment needed for
our sessions.
4. How we began
• The Habitat Children’s Book Forum (HCBF) was
launched in October 2003 at the India Habitat Centre, a
cultural centre in New Delhi, India, by children’s writers
Deepa Agarwal and Paro Anand.
• It was a voluntary endeavour, with the aim of nurturing
the reading habit by showing children that books can be
fun.
• Another objective was to promote the work of Indian
authors and provide children with a platform to express
their views about books.
• For the past five years the forum has been organized by
Deepa Agarwal and Devika Rangachari.
5. Then and now…
Our rather formal launch
in October 2003 Making a story scroll
6. It took us some time to find a dedicated space
Poetry with eminent poet
Storytelling in the sun Keki Daruwala
7. How the HCBF works
The Forum meets on a selected Saturday morning at India Habitat Centre,
New Delhi, and is open to all children free of charge.
We introduce children to various genres of books and authors, illustrators
and storytellers.
Information is circulated through our e-mail list, letters to schools, the IHC
calendar and event listings in the media.
Children attend the sessions either as part of a school group or individually.
Each two hour session caters to a specific age group and books are chosen
accordingly. The broad age group is 5-14 years.
Readings, audio-visual presentations, interactions with the author, writing
activities and discussions are some of the methods we use.
Since children’s books are often not readily available at bookstores, we
make the featured book available for sale.
We have developed this format after years of experimentation and
discovered that it works best/well.
8. Celebrating classic writers like Nobel Laureate Rabindranath
Tagore
Enacting the poem “Bir The great man himself
Purush” (Brave Man) telling us about his life!
9. The HCBF Annual Event
The annual day of the HCBF, usually planned around Children’s Day (November
14th) is a huge draw.
We organize activities for both the 5-8 and 9-12 age group.
Some of the activities for the younger age group include story building, role play and
enactment of popular stories.
For the older age group we conduct a literary quiz based on a list of 20 Indian and
foreign titles distributed beforehand.
The idea behind the quiz that each child gets to read and enjoy an eclectic range of
books.
The quiz was conceptualized merely as an impetus towards reading.
We also sum up the year’s activities in the form of a Book Parade.
Supportive school librarians, teachers and parents are also lauded and
acknowledged for their enthusiasm.
We are the only public forum that recognizes such efforts.
We also organize a panel discussion among adult stakeholders to discuss important
issues that concern children’s literature in India.
15. What they have to say…
Children, parents, teachers and librarians are vocal in their
praise and reiterate that the HCBF has enormously
benefited them in various ways.
16. Sagnik Anupam, Class V, Delhi Public School
Sagnik with his Quiz
prizes
I remember my first HCBF session, in 2009,
when I was seven years old. There for the first
time in my life, I saw real writers who wrote
for children.
I’ve discovered that the books selected by
HCBF have always turned out to be
marvellous, improving my taste buds
particular to the exotic flavour of spices in
outstanding books.
Also, I get to buy many books recommended
by experts in the field of literature. I get to
read books of different types and get familiar
with the writing styles of many authors. But
most of all, it helps hone my own styles of
writing.
I enthusiastically await the Literary Quiz
Book List 2012. After all, it makes me read!
17. Authors…
Ranjit Lal, Children’s
Author:
I've enjoyed my HCBF experiences
since it's always wonderful to be face-
to-face with your readers and get an
idea about how they think and feel.
What's really encouraging is how they
open up after an initial spell of
holding back (as if they're sizing you
up!) from which point on it's open
house.
18. Librarians…
Chhabi Ghosh, Librarian, Cambridge School, Noida Shikha Gulati, Junior Librarian, Bluebells School
International, New Delhi:
The prime objective of school librarians is to motivate
children to read. The HCBF helps in achieving this The HCBF has given a platform to students to meet various
objective; its contribution is praiseworthy. Its various authors from across the country. The book-related
activities develop the students’ thinking skills, listening activities are well-designed and give a lot of confidence to
capacity and confidence levels. Librarians are also able to the students. The annual Literary Quiz has also helped
update their knowledge and learn about new children’s students to read more books.
books through these sessions. There is no other forum of
its kind. The HCBF coordinators, Deepa and Devika, have done a
wonderful job of bringing books and children together.
19. Publishing house editors…
Sohini Mitra, Senior
Commissioning Editor, Puffin
Books, India:
HBFC is all about making books fun for
children. It has been an absolute
pleasure partnering with them on this
mission. It’s a wonderful initiative, and
kids totally love the sessions and
activities. The twinkle in their eyes and
skip in their steps is testimony to the
fact that the forum has reached out to
the target readers in a big way!
Moreover, the forum is a great platform
for publishers like us to connect with
younger readers
20. The Impact
The HCBF is a unique initiative that directly addresses
children and their book-related needs, advocating as it does
reading for pleasure, and its impact is growing enormously.
It is the only children’s book forum of its kind in Delhi.
The HCBF has been functioning successfully for almost nine
years and participation is constantly on the rise.
Numerous participants have not only enhanced their reading
skills but also discovered their writing or artistic talents.
Plans for improving this forum and enhancing its reach are
constantly afoot.
The Habitat Children’s Book Forum also has a Facebook
page.