Are you a detail-oriented person who is interested in making things look organized and consistent? If you are, please join our curriculum crew as a curriculum designer to make our edited curriculum guides ready for the families and children at Words Alive. We will provide different guide templates for you based on the project you are formatting. Volunteers in this role must complete a virtual curriculum training and have access to Microsoft Word on their computers.
Curriculum Crew: Translation Station
Did you know there are nearly 60 languages spoken at home by families in San Diego County alone? Help families build healthy reading habits and skillsets by translating existing Words Alive resources into other languages. This project will allow Words Alive to provide resources to more students and families than ever before! We are currently looking for volunteer support to translate resources into Amharic, Arabic, Burmese, Korean, Portuguese, Somali, and Vietnamese.
Volunteers in this role must complete a virtual curriculum training.
Interested? Click here to sign up for a volunteer orientation!
Curriculum - Editor
Words Alive volunteers write curriculum guides to teach books and stories to their students. Help Words Alive get curriculum guides ready for program use by editing new guides for content, grammar, and formatting. Volunteers in this role must complete a virtual curriculum training.
Interested? Click here to sign up for a volunteer orientation!
Curriculum - Writer
Words Alive program volunteers and teachers use curriculum guides to teach books and stories to their students. Help Words Alive by writing curriculum guides full of discussion questions, activities, and creating writing prompts to help students build text to self and text to world connections. Volunteers in this role must complete a short, virtual training, as well as acquire and read the assigned book.
We have a high need for Graphic Novel Curriculum Writers to support the growing demand for more fresh, relevant graphic novels from adolescents in our book group program.
Interested? Click here to sign up for a volunteer orientation!
Page Turners
We receive dozens of book recommendations from our volunteers, teachers, and community partners for titles they think would be a strong fit for our programs. We pride ourselves on selecting the most contemporary, diverse, relevant, and engaging texts we can get our hands on for our programs. That’s where passionate readers, like you, come in! By reading and reviewing titles from our recommendation list, you help us determine which books should be added to our program curriculum. All ages are welcome to participate!
Interested? Click here to review our reading list and sign up for a book!
Virtual Book Drive
Words Alive is committed to providing books to children in our community. Right now, the need is greater than ever. Help replenish our bookshelves so Words Alive can continue to distribute books to children in need across our community. Host a virtual book drive on behalf of Words Alive by sharing our wish list with your networks.
Social Media Squad
Are you interested in writing copy, analytics, video editing, or graphic design? Join the Social Media Squad to help develop and schedule content for Words Alive's social media feeds. By developing engaging content for Words Alive, you will help keep students, families, volunteers, and donors informed and engaged with the work our organization is doing virtually and across San Diego County!