Arizona BookPALS

Arizona BookPALS Featured in North Central News

http://northcentralnews.net/2013/community/bookpals-inspire-kids-to-love-reading/ click here to see article. BookPALS inspire kids to love reading December 2013 Some of the best books are meant to be read aloud. That’s the premise behind BookPALS, a unique, all-volunteer literacy program sponsored by the Screen Actors Guild Foundation whose mission is to promote the joys of reading. Performing artists and trained community volunteers read to classes of children at public elementary schools, special events, museums, fairs, shelters, hospitals, on the telephone and online....

BookPALS Actors Wow their Fellow Volunteers at the Arizona BookPALS Kick-Off.. see next page for videos!

Robin Roy, Director of Literacy Programs for the Screen Actors Guild Foundation, demonstrates a read aloud at Arizona BookPALS year end luncheon.

Arizona BookPALS was delighted to have Robin Roy, National Director of Literacy Programs, visit our branch for our year end celebrations. Robin also runs the LA BookPALS program and is a BookPALS reader herself. Robin attended our PencilPALS party and also our BookPALS Appreciation Luncheon. She showed us how it’s done! What a fun read aloud. Thank you Robin…see next page for video

Junior BookPALS excited students at Bennett Academy in Phoenix

Junior BookPALS, a part of the SAG BookPALS literacy program, teaches students the skills of reading aloud. A BookPALS volunteer reads for several months to a class of students demonstrating the do’s and don’ts of reading aloud. The students practice with each other before trying their hand reading to classes of younger children. Everyone benefits from this program. The older students get to prepare material for the younger students. This is a good chance for below grade level readers to approach material at their own grade level and master it. The younger students look up...