Project Read to Me
Project Read to Me is a children’s literature project carefully crafted with characteristics that support read aloud experience through which readers apprentice children into complex processing of ideas.
Goals:
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Engage young learners in a read aloud concept book for young children, age 4-8 to help acquire language, values, practices, and dispositions of the literal world.
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Engage young learners to build capacity to understand complex issues through narration and sequence by constructing meaning through interactions between text and illustrations.
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Encourage young learners to be curious global citizens.
Read-aloud concept books process complex texts to help children learn how to investigate and approach life around them as both emergent readers, and later as independent ones…thus contributing to their lifelong development as skilled readers.
Project Read to Me utilizes thematically rich issues, engages complex illustrations, and introduces rich language to carefully craft original, artistic and tightly constructed text for early childhood learners. Transferring information from books to the real world helps children connect and understand the world around them and their relation to their environment.
Book Series:
Change the Change
"Change the Change" highlights greenhouse gasses, fossil fuels, renewable energy sources, geothermal energy, habitat, atmosphere and climate by unpacking climate change.
Author: Ameena Zia
Illustrator: Amy Scheidegger Ducos
Needs and Wants
"Needs and Wants" highlights needs, wants, opportunity costs, opportunity cost in action, and options to introduce financial literacy.
Author: Ameena Zia
River meets the Sea
"River meets the Sea" highlights water as a life source and introduces its journey through mountains, cities, to Sea. Informative and visual pages bring attention to the Indus River of Pakistan with science, history, geography, and myth.
Authors: Ameena Zia, Wajahat Malik
ME!
"ME!" highlights the importance of living a healthy life and introduces concepts of hydration, balanced meals, exercise of body and rest of mind.
Author: Ameena Zia
Forward by: Dr. Waqas Ahmad
A project of American Tele-physicians in partnership with ECOSOC Major Stakeholder Forum and UNICEF.
Mystical Baba BULLEH
"Mystical Baba BULLEH" highlights the poet and humanist Bulleh Shah. The interplay between visuals and texts brings to life the magic of his poetry.
Author: TBD
Project Read to Me is a sustainable development project of Blue Ridge Impact Consulting in partnership with the World’s Largest Lesson, Global Goal 4 Quality Education, and the International Year of the Family.