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World Read Aloud Day Joins African Children of the World
Earlier this month, thousands of individuals in over thirty-five countries participated in World Read Aloud Day. The aim of this event proposed by the organisation LitWorld was to raise awareness for the importance of literacy across all countries, and promote the transformative power of children’s literature. Authors in a Harlem book store read to kids in Ghana via Skype, Illinois third graders read to their classmates, and hundreds of people tweeted their favorite read-alouds as part of yesterday’s first World Read Aloud Day. One organisation, the School-to-School partnership program, as part of the Millennium Cities Initiative, put two groups of school-children in contact through technology.
The first group included Sidwell Friends School in Washington, DC; Arya Primary School in Kisumu, Kenya; and Ecole le Progrès in Bamako, Mali. Those students joined each other via Skype, reading aloud a few “wild adventure stories” they wrote together in serial fashion, in advance of the event. The students seemed genuinely thrilled to interact with one another and to be able to connect with a school on the other side of the world.
The second group paired fifth graders from Miner Elementary, a public school in Washington, DC, with students from Opoku Ware Junior High School in Kumasi, Ghana. Despite a power outage across much of Ghana that day, the students were able to connect briefly via Skype, make introductions and ask a few questions of one another. The students at Miner were also able to read aloud the “wild adventure story” they had written together with their DC and African counterparts and to send instant messages to the students in Kumasi.
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