An Open Book Foundation I had the extraordinary experience of working with Ms. Punwani’s 8th grade classes at Hardy Middle School in Washington, D.C. Here’s the story! http://anopenbookfound.org/terry-farish-at-hardy-middle-school/
An Open Book offers this generous invitation to D.C. teachers and librarians: “An Open Book Foundation (AOB) brings children’s and teens’ authors into your school. We give each student who attends the event a copy of the author’s book to take home, a copy of the book to each classroom, and a set of the author’s books to the school library. This fabulous experience opens up the world of reading to your students. They can’t wait to open their new books.”
We are looking to identify authors who could come to read at Shepherd Park Elementary School. For the past few years a group of neighbors has been working with the Early Readers program 3 mornings a week with k-2 students identified as needing support in reading. We would like them to continue being engaged readers once they graduate out of Early Readers.Also, we know other students in the school would benefit from being “turned on to reading”. That can be facilitated by the exciting experience of hearing an author read from his/her book. Please let me know how we might proceed. Thank you.
Hello Shelley,
Please contact me at tfarishatgmail.com
Congratulations on the good work you are doing!
Terry