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\nI found an email from the end of last year (2010) that talked about being a sto\u00adry\u00adteller in chil\u00addren\u2019s class\u00ades. Per\u00adhaps it can be of some ref\u00ader\u00adence to moms and dads who are inter\u00adest\u00aded in being a sto\u00adry\u00adteller in their chil\u00addren\u2019s class\u00ades.
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\nLet me first share some thoughts on orga\u00adniz\u00ading a read\u00ading club in my child\u2019s class.
\nJust last week, when I returned to Guangzhou, Xiao\u00admai came to talk to me about a sim\u00adi\u00adlar top\u00adic. She\u2019s been involved in a lot of plan\u00adning and orga\u00adniz\u00ading the book club. She feels that oppor\u00adtu\u00adni\u00adties to engage chil\u00addren in read\u00ading activ\u00adi\u00adties are lim\u00adit\u00aded, so she\u2019s real\u00adly focused on run\u00adning each activ\u00adi\u00adty effi\u00adcient\u00adly, hop\u00ading to achieve the desired results, help more chil\u00addren get start\u00aded, and ensure that par\u00adents also feel that their chil\u00addren are being helped, that this kind of read\u00ading activ\u00adi\u00adty is ben\u00ade\u00adfi\u00adcial, and that it\u2019s mean\u00ading\u00adful to con\u00adtin\u00adue. These ideas, of course, are all very good wish\u00ades.
\nBut she encoun\u00adtered a prob\u00adlem. The chil\u00addren were all dif\u00adfer\u00adent, with vary\u00ading lev\u00adels of read\u00ading pro\u00adfi\u00adcien\u00adcy, enjoy\u00adment of read\u00ading activ\u00adi\u00adties, and par\u00adtic\u00adi\u00adpa\u00adtion. Some were even reluc\u00adtant to coop\u00ader\u00adate, hin\u00adder\u00ading oth\u00aders who want\u00aded to par\u00adtic\u00adi\u00adpate. She had no choice but to deal with them sep\u00ada\u00adrate\u00adly, only halfway through the plan, and she need\u00aded to recal\u00adi\u00adbrate her mind\u00adset.
\nMy advice to her was that this sit\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtion is per\u00adfect\u00adly nor\u00admal and hap\u00adpens to every\u00adone at first. We are all ordi\u00adnary peo\u00adple, and we are not even their teach\u00aders. We have no aca\u00add\u00ade\u00adm\u00adic respon\u00adsi\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty, nor do they have any oblig\u00ada\u00adtion to obey us. Sto\u00adry\u00adtellers and chil\u00addren are just ordi\u00adnary friends, and friend\u00adships require har\u00admo\u00adnious com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adca\u00adtion and coop\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion based on mutu\u00adal under\u00adstand\u00ading.
\nSo, we should\u00adn\u2019t bur\u00adden our\u00adselves with unnec\u00ades\u00adsary and mean\u00ading\u00adless \u201crespon\u00adsi\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adties.\u201d Does read\u00ading help chil\u00addren aca\u00add\u00ade\u00adm\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly? Does it offer any con\u00adcrete ben\u00ade\u00adfits? Does it cre\u00adate any \u201cmean\u00ading\u201d that oth\u00ader par\u00adents can iden\u00adti\u00adfy with? This isn\u2019t to say we should\u00adn\u2019t con\u00adsid\u00ader it at all; it\u2019s sim\u00adply to say that it\u2019s large\u00adly irrel\u00ade\u00advant to us and should be for\u00adgot\u00adten. Con\u00adstant\u00adly dwelling on such things only bur\u00addens us.
\nSo what should sto\u00adry\u00adtellers think about? How can they cap\u00adi\u00adtal\u00adize on the lim\u00adit\u00aded time avail\u00adable for read\u00ading activ\u00adi\u00adties and make both the chil\u00addren and them\u00adselves hap\u00adpy through read\u00ading? The hap\u00adpi\u00ader the chil\u00addren and them\u00adselves are, the more suc\u00adcess\u00adful the read\u00ading activ\u00adi\u00adty will be. Only in this way can chil\u00addren tru\u00adly expe\u00adri\u00adence that \u201cread\u00ading is such a fun thing!\u201d
\nOnce some sto\u00adry\u00adtellers have become bur\u00addened with bag\u00adgage, they tend to make the orig\u00adi\u00adnal\u00adly enjoy\u00adable read\u00ading activ\u00adi\u00adties more and more like teacher-led class\u00ades, and they them\u00adselves tem\u00adporar\u00adi\u00adly play the role of ama\u00adteur teach\u00aders. This becomes very trou\u00adble\u00adsome.
\nThere\u00adfore, mak\u00ading book clubs fun and engag\u00ading is both the most impor\u00adtant and the most chal\u00adleng\u00ading aspect. Inter\u00adest\u00ading does\u00adn\u2019t always mean live\u00adly and excit\u00ading; some\u00adtimes qui\u00adet activ\u00adi\u00adties can be fun and engag\u00ading. How\u00adev\u00ader, this requires a strong rap\u00adport between the chil\u00addren and the sto\u00adry\u00adteller. It\u2019s best to start with a live\u00adly atmos\u00adphere.
\nHow\u00adev\u00ader, there\u2019s anoth\u00ader cru\u00adcial point. Books will undoubt\u00aded\u00adly be read at a book club, so what\u2019s the pur\u00adpose of read\u00ading at a book club? Is it sim\u00adply about read\u00ading cer\u00adtain books togeth\u00ader? No. Absolute\u00adly not. The real pur\u00adpose is advertising\u2014advertising the books them\u00adselves, and also adver\u00adtis\u00ading read\u00ading itself. There\u00adfore, if books are read at an event, we need to find ways to ensure that all par\u00adtic\u00adi\u00adpat\u00ading chil\u00addren have access to those books and their relat\u00aded works after\u00adward. For exam\u00adple, if I vis\u00adit a class to share a 40-minute read\u00ading ses\u00adsion with the chil\u00addren, when\u00adev\u00ader pos\u00adsi\u00adble, I\u2019ll leave the books I dis\u00adcussed with them in the class\u00adroom, assign\u00ading them to the teacher or stu\u00addent librar\u00adi\u00adan, so that the chil\u00addren can read them on their own after\u00adward.
\nThe gen\u00ader\u00adal process is: prepa\u00adra\u00adtion \u2014 activ\u00adi\u00adty (sto\u00adry\u00adtelling, book dis\u00adcus\u00adsion) \u2014 read\u00ading (prepa\u00adra\u00adtion) \u2014 activ\u00adi\u00adty (book dis\u00adcus\u00adsion, sto\u00adry\u00adtelling) \u2014 and so on. Time for read\u00ading activ\u00adi\u00adties is always very lim\u00adit\u00aded, so it is only suit\u00adable for mak\u00ading it into a won\u00adder\u00adful but brief adver\u00adtis\u00ading time. Most of the time must be left to the chil\u00addren them\u00adselves.
\nFur\u00adther\u00admore, orga\u00adniz\u00ading a class read\u00ading activ\u00adi\u00adty on your own is incred\u00adi\u00adbly tir\u00ading and prone to dis\u00adcour\u00adage\u00adment. So, it\u2019s cru\u00adcial to bring in a few like-mind\u00aded par\u00adents and assign them more tasks, pri\u00admar\u00adi\u00adly to encour\u00adage par\u00adtic\u00adi\u00adpa\u00adtion. It\u2019s also pos\u00adsi\u00adble to orga\u00adnize activ\u00adi\u00adties where par\u00adents can enjoy read\u00ading togeth\u00ader. This requires patience. If you throw a peb\u00adble into water, there\u2019s bound to be a reac\u00adtion. It\u2019s just that adults often become accus\u00adtomed to it, and even if there is a reac\u00adtion, they delib\u00ader\u00adate\u00adly hide it from oth\u00aders. O(\u2229_\u2229)O~
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\nArgen\u00adtine Primera Divisi\u00f3n in Decem\u00adber 2010<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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