Through Words Alive’s “Book Connect Us” campaign, we are sharing best practices from our 20+ year history to help children, teens, families, and our community use the love of reading to navigate this turbulent time. Here are a few highlights from the past few days.
Introducing Words Alive's Story Station
This past Friday – taking from the best practices of our Read Aloud and Family Literacy Programs – we debuted Words Alive Story Station online!
Local, award-winning children’s author, Marcie Colleen, joined in the celebration with a live reading of her book, Penguinaut! on Facebook Live. Tune into the Words Alive Facebook page weekdays at 2 p.m. PT for more great stories! You can watch Marcie read Penguinaut! here.
Interested in reading a children’s story on the Words Alive Story Station? Email Robyn to become a Story Station Conductor!
Virtual Volunteer Opportunity: QuaranTEENS
Looking for a meaningful way to help teens navigate the impact of COVID-19, social distancing, and their new normal?
You can help create content for our new QuaranTEENS page. Leveraging some of the best ideas from our Adolescent Book Group, we’re looking for help creating journaling and creative writing prompts, arts and crafts ideas, author talks, discussion questions, and more to help support teens during this time.
Learn more about virtual volunteer opportunities here.
Building Home Libraries
There are children across San Diego sheltering in place without access to books in their homes. The Words Alive community is helping.
We want to send a very special thank you this week to Lacy Crawford, who partnered with Warwick’s in La Jolla, to ship new books to a group of wonderful teens from our Adolescent Book Group. Lacy hopes to inspire others to support local independent businesses and provide books to children in our community who need them.
You can find more ways to help here.
Upcoming (Virtual) Events:
Join us for Story Station every weekday afternoon (2PM PT on Facebook Live):
3/30: Say Hello! by Rachel Isadora
3/31: Truck Full of Ducks by Ross Burach
4/1: Red: A Crayon’s Story by Michael Hall
4/2: Dragons Love Tacos by Adam Rubin
4/3: It’s Okay to Make Mistakes by Todd Parr
(Recordings are available on our Facebook page after the reading.)
QuaranTEENS events coming soon:
- Lesson Series on Fact vs. Fiction
- TikTok Challenge
- Cooking Show
Keep an eye on this blog for more weekly updates!