Pratham Books Champion : Sreedevi Gopakumar

Sreedevi Gopakumar sent us this story about a storytelling session she conducted at St Joseph's Model Public School, Trichur.

I held my very first story telling session today at St Joseph's Model Public School. It is pouring non-stop in Trichur and The Red Raincoat seemed ideal. I read it out to four batches of about 20 UKG kids each and followed it up with a simple coloring activity.

The children absolutely loved it! They raced through their coloring pages so that they could hold the book, sniff the pages and exclaim at the pictures. These children are from entirely Malayalam speaking families and have no access to English books apart from their textbooks, so they were absolutely thrilled to have a sweet English story to flip through. 

Every image evoked excited discussions in screeching, shrill voices. One boy pointed out that it poured in the last page, because that's when the frog finally got a chance to call out to the rain. In another session a little girl told me solemnly that it must have rained on Friday because peacocks knows these things better than we do.

The children learnt plenty of new words today (Cloud, Cloudy, Rainy, Sunny, Picnic, Thunder) and all of us had a blast. We followed up the story with a raincoat coloring activity.

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Thank you Sreedevi for spreading the joy of reading.

Note : If you want to be a Pratham Books Champion and join us on our journey of getting 'a book in every child's hand', write to us at champions(at)prathambooks(dot)org.

Pratham Books Champion : Aswasa Bhavan

For International Literacy Day (8th September), we had a dream - we wished that 100 people would volunteer to conduct storytelling sessions across the country. We ended up finding more than 250 champions to conduct storytelling sessions across the country. We will be sharing the stories of all our champions through our blog.

Josept Mathew from Aswasa Bhavan sent us this photo story of the two sessions that took place - one in Kerala and one in Tamil Nadu.

Storytelling session conducted at Aswas Vidhyasthan Public School, Kottayam on 8th September 2012 :

Joseph also sent us a newspaper article which carried the story about their session

(Please click on the image to read the entire article)

Storytelling session conducted on 8th September, 2012 : Aruthal Illam - a project under Aswasa Bhavan
The session was conducted at Theny district 

Thank you Joseph for spreading the joy of reading!

View more pictures from the International Literacy Day Celebrations.

This blog contains stories sent in by all our champions. Browse through the blog for more stories. You can also go through the tags on the right side of the blog to find stories happening in your own city.

Note : If any of you want to be a Pratham Books Champion and join us on our journey of getting 'a book in every child's hand', write to us at web(at)prathambooks(dot)org.