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23 December, 2015, Buamlao Village, Xayaboury Province, Laos

Launching a Reading Program: For our reading program, we give enough books to each classroom in the school so that children can read every day. Often called "Sustained Silent Reading", this approach develops reading skills, a love of reading, and a habit of reading. We launch the program with a book party, show here. For one full morning or afternoon, our team reads aloud, talks about books, leads outdoor games, and teaches songs about books and reading. At the end, every child gets to choose a book of their own, in addition to the books we leave in the classrooms. Then, beginning in 2015, we do more follow-up visits with the school to be sure the program is set up successfully.

This event was sponsored by Terre des Hommes (Germany), the people of the village itself, EduWeb (United States), and Glenn Auve (United States). Thank you!

In the first picture, students are singing a song about books. It's one of many songs written by the book party team. Each song has a set of hand motions to accompany it.

Months after a book party, we've sometimes visited a village and children spontaneously start singing the song.

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