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“The real gift is out of all proportion to the cost of the books. It is wonderful for these students to know that they are not forgotten and we are all linked.” As December 2011 came to a close we at Pelican Post Towers were thrilled to receive a flurry of updates from partnering schools […]
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One of the key aims of the Pelican Post project is for each participating school to receive 20 copies of the same story so that the teachers can practice shared classroom reading and the children can read the words and enjoy the pictures together. For many, this may in actual fact mean sharing one book […]
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Tags: Africa, Book Aid, Bringing Books to Life, literacy, managing a book collection, teaching guides, using books in the classroom
I recently received an inspiring story from our partners in Uganda; Ka Tutandike (www. katutandike. org) regarding three of the schools in Kampala which Pelican Post is currently supporting. Working with the teachers, Ka Tutandike recently introduced a new reading competition across the schools called the 20:20 challenge. Children receive an adhesive star against their name once they have borrowed, […]
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Tags: Africa, education, Ka Tutandike, literacy, Reading for pleasure, Schools in Uganda
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