Reading book

Inspiring children to Read books in American Corner.

On February 1st, 2011 ACQ-t held amazing and fantastic event dedicated to Children’s Authors and Illustrator Week. TEA Alumna Zebo Murodova inspired children of age 12-14 to read books.

She organized together with AC Coordinator the plan of the event dedicated to Children’s Authors and Illustrators Week. Among all kids fiction books we chose WHEN SOPHIE GETS ANGRY-REALLY, REALLY ANGRY…. by Molly Bang to read for kids.

During the event the following activities were held:

* Prediction (while reading each page of the book students predict what will happen next to Sophie)
* Drawing-angry face (students had to draw an angry face and write what feeling they have when they get angry)
* Spelling bee (vocabulary work)
* Acting out the verbs
* Making kids’ own word search according to the vocabulary of the book using web site: www. teach-nology.com

At the beginning of the lesson students and teacher introduced themselves and told what they like to do. In order to feel comfortable Zebo invited students to sit in a circle on the carpet, so that atmosphere would be relaxing. Then she and kids read, translated and discussed the book. After reading the book students discussed Sophie’s behavior and thought about their own behavior when they get angry what they do.

At the end of our event each kid got “GOOD JOB” stickers as an award for their activeness.

Zebo also brought Taiwanese bear by name Harika to introduce her to kids. The aim of this was to show kids what uniform Taiwanese students wear at school, share exchange project and kids told Harika the plot of the book they have read today. Now in Harika’s diary will a page about this event at ACQ-t, which will be read by Taiwanese students or submitted in the blog.

Results: kids got a good lesson how to behave when they get angry. Sophie from the book showed a good example how to keep the anger not hurting others. After reading this book they came and asked coordinator to give an advice what kind of books they should take from AC and read. By this request we reached the goal which was set before the event. Follow on activity was the word search which they made from the words they have learnt from the book (you can see it in attachment).

Quote of Davlatova Mahinbonu: “It’s a pleasure to meet with teacher Zebo. We had a great event today and liked reading the book. I didn’t want to let Harika go back!!!”