How to help inspire a love of reading with early readers
Block B Session 11:10 AM – 12:10 PM
A school library is an important space within a school. It is more than a room with books placed on shelves. It is a garden of bountiful gifts waiting to be discovered. Once children begin to discover these delights, they want to come back for more. Cultivating this love for reading must take the relationship between the reader, the writer and place they meet, into consideration. This workshop will focus on strategies and ideas that can help a school library transform into a garden where young children can enter and begin to establish relationships with the authors that have taken root.
Bio
Kim has been a teacher working for Riverside School Board for 20 years now. She began her career teaching kindergarten where she spent 10 years. Her kindergarten experience gave her a better understanding of the global development of a child, which provided her with the opportunity to then work for the Ministry of Education as an education specialist, supporting the Preschool Program for the Anglophone sector, for the province of Quebec. Throughout her 5 year contract with the Ministry, she collaborated with English School Boards across the province, supporting projects and offering workshops to support the kindergarten teachers. Today, you will find Kim in her Cycle 1-Level 1 classroom, planning and developing learning experiences to better align her pedagogical practices in the pursuit of supporting her Grade 1 students.