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great tools for raising children's
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Tested-and-proven
ways to stoke a love of reading in Caribbean kids!
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Hands
Across the Sea Board of Directors member Allegra Asplundh-Smith,
a former U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer on Dominica, has
created "Smiles of My People," an inspiring guide
(downloadable below) to raising literacy levels among
Eastern Caribbean children.
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Good intentions are not enough to create
a sustainable, high-functioning lending library in a Caribbean
school. Sending resources — even when the resources are
great books — is not enough. It takes passion, dedication,
and hard work on the ground, along with substantial buy-in from
school staff, parents, and members of the local community to
create a library and stoke a love of reading that will flourish
for years to come.
On this page you'll find tested-and-proven methods and materials
from education professionals and United States Peace Corps Volunteers
who have created sustainable, positive change in Caribbean schools
and communities. Part of Hands Across the Sea's Caribbean
Literacy and School Support (CLASS) program involves utilizing
these successful strategies to raise the literacy levels of
Caribbean children. Whether you're a school principal or teacher,
a Peace Corps volunteer, or a concerned parent or community
member who wants to improve the reading and writing skills of
Caribbean kids, we're certain that you'll find something useful
on this page.
Downloadable Literacy
Resources (PDF,
Microsoft Word, and Powerpoint formats)
 Smiles
of My People How
to create libraries in Caribbean
primary schools that inspire young readers and poets
By Allegra Asplundh-Smith, Board of
Directors, Hands Across the Sea
Part
One: First Steps to Raising Literacy Levels
Part
Two: Anthology of Poetry
Part
Three: Poems by Caribbean Children
Part
Four: Sources and Credits
Sustainable Libraries in Caribbean
Schools
How to organize and replenish a school library
By Katherine Bowyer, U.S. Peace Corps
Volunteer, St. Lucia
Resources,
Organizing, Checkout System & Reading Incentives
Student Librarian Training
How to build student engagement with the school library
By Ina Howe, U.S. Peace
Corps Volunteer, Antigua
For
School Staff: Teacher Orientation to the Library
How to Make Awesome Book Reports!
Here are three dozen cool templates to help students create
book reports that showcase all that can be learned from a book:
elements of storytelling, plot, character, vocabulary, illustration,
and much more. Oh, yeah, and students will have fun doing it!
From Allegra Asplundh-Smith,
Hands Across the Sea
View or print online:
Awesome Book Reports!
Awesome Library Labels
Kids will know just where to go with these 17 labels for your
library
shelves — everything from Science to Superheroes to Fairy
Tales.
From Allegra Asplundh-Smith,
Hands Across the Sea
View or print online:
Awesome Library Labels
Caribbean Literacy
Websites
Show
Me WOW!
Ideas,
tips and case studies to help teachers get great results with
limited
resources, using integrated or thematic approaches to teaching
and learning
By Chris Lawrence, Education Consultant
&
Hands Across the Sea advisory board member
ways you can work with Hands...
how to donate funds
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a check made out to "Hands Across the Sea, Inc."
and mailed to Hands Across the Sea, Inc., 411 Walnut Street,
PMB 4218, Green Cove Springs, FL 32043.
Or you can donate via the secure PayPal interface on the Donate
to Hands page. If you have a specific school or project
you'd like to "adopt," please tell us in the Comments
section of the PayPal interface or on your check. You'll help
us fulfill the specific Wish
Lists of our recipients.
how to donate books to Hands
If you'd like to donate new and nearly
new books, please go to our Hands
Book Drop page or contact
us!
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