Reading aloud … to teens? What??
26 01 2007There’s a great article in the new issue of VOYA that just arrived in my mailbox today. It’s about a new type of YA book club called Readers Workshop, created by a school librarian in New York. She runs Readers Workshop by reading the book out loud to the kids and asking questions along the way. She says that reading requires concentration, which reading aloud helps to promote. She also points out that reading stories with teens “gives them a platform of expression and a handle on empathy.” Although her program is set up in a school library, I bet it would be a great format for short-story discussions in a public library setting too. What do you think? (A side note, the author of the article, Alison Follos, will be presenting a workshop on Readers Workshop for CMRLS on April 11 at Gibbons Middle School in Westborough. Go to http://www.cmrls.org to register!)
