Making a Difference Through Story Time

From Reader's Digest:

    Tammy Barry sits in the front of the library, trying to transform a newspaper into a boat. Her audience is young women and their toddler children, and she has just read aloud a book about Curious George—that naughty monkey!—who neglects to deliver newspapers along his paper route and instead folds them into boats and floats them on a pond.

    But Barry is not exactly a whiz at shipbuilding. "This is hard for me," she tells the mothers in Spanish. That's when one of the women, who had only paper boats to play with as a child, shows the group—in 30 seconds flat—how to make one. Once the fleet is folded, the group launches their boats in water-filled Tupperware "ponds."   It's moments like these that Barry, 46, most loves about her volunteer job teaching three reading classes a week at Mercy Learning Center in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

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Comments

[Yancey Arts]

What a lovely article! Kids like to listen to stories about cute animals. Story telling is indeed a perfect way to connect to toddlers. Not only do they learn new things, they also acquire skills like active listening and communication.

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