All Fired Up About Reading: Camp Read-a-Rama @ Your Library

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Description

Take your storytimes and youth programming to the next level!

Using music, movement, field trips, arts and crafts, community exploration, and STEM  and children’s books, Camp Read-a-Rama has been growing passionate, life-long readers for 16 years. This webinar, led by Dr. Michelle H. Martin, will introduce you to Read-a-Rama’s 100% engagement programming model. Learn a few infectious Read-a-Rama songs while getting a taste of how this research-based program builds critical thinking skills and helps children associate reading with fun, interactive activities. In addition to learning about the program, participants will get a tour of three rich repositories: the curriculum, song, and resource libraries that are at the heart of this online, asynchronous training—materials that librarians using the program have declared are “game changers.” Check out the Read-a-Rama website. 

Learning Objectives

Participants will:

  • Discover ways to invigorate children’s programs through 100% engagement
  • Explore how to build sustained thematic programming using children’s books
  • Learn several new storytime songs that you can use immediately.

About the Presenter

Dr. Michelle H. Martin (aka Doc Martin) is both the co-founder of Read-a-Rama (with Dr. Rachelle D. Washington) and the Beverly Cleary Professor for Children & Youth Services in the Information School at the University of Washington. She teaches courses in youth services and children’s and YA literature and leads study abroad programs to the UK and New Zealand. Throughout Martin’s 30+ years of teaching, she has been growing Read-a-Rama programming, which emerged out of Martin’s PhD in English Studies Children’s Literature, M.S. degree in Outdoor Teacher Education, and experiences as a Lifetime and a Gold Award Girl Scout. Martin is a scholar, book reviewer, lecturer, essayist, singer, songwriter, dog lover and an outdoor enthusiast who loves getting young people excited about reading.

This event will be hosted in Zoom. Automatic captions will be enabled for this event. This event will be recorded, and registrants will receive access to the recording once it is available.

If you have questions or requests regarding accessibility, contact us at ce@ala.org or at 312-280-5100.

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