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Turtles, Storks and Hopscotch: A Creative Education

Basic Literacy Creative Education through Literature is about learning and entertainment at the same time. Whereas formal education doesn’t recognize children’s need for entertainment. Creative Education through Literature connects with…

Visiting a Printing House

Visiting a Printing House: How are the books we read printed? Child-centered libraries do much more than lend books to children. These libraries are dynamic, playing an important role in developing children’s skills and expanding their knowledge.…

Brothers Read Together in a Read with Me Library

Child-centered Library Brings Brothers to Read Together This is a Read with Me child-centered library in Rijab. It’s a place where children spend most of their summer time. The older brother takes his younger brother by the hand, crosses…

Young Librarian and her Active Library

Young Librarian and her Active Library This is the young librarian of a Read with Me child-centered library located in a nomadic school in a village in Sistan & Balouchestan province. Most children, especially girls cannot study further…

A Little Girl’s Dream to Join a Library

A Little Girl's Dream to Join a Library Mozhdeh, a Read with Me ambassador, told us the tale of little girl who wished so strongly to join her library. This ambassador has continuously shown great enthusiasm in encouraging the children of…

Read with Me, A Cool Breeze in the Hot Summer of Brick Kilns

Children of southern Tehran’s brick kilns, have been experiencing group reading sessions every summer for a few years now. A blessing made possible through Read with Me volunteers. Brick kiln workers migrate from far away villages and cities…

The Reading Aloud Experience of A Creative Teacher

A creative teacher in Kousha House for Children, reads the book "I Am Not a Chair!" by Ross Burach to her preschool students. In this exciting Reading Aloud session, she includes so many different activities and discusses many interesting topics…

I Am Not a Chair!: A Reading Aloud Experience

"I Am Not a Chair!" is a book about a giraffe that everybody mistakes for a chair. But he is not as self-confident as to tell them he’s not a chair, but a giraffe. At first he endures a smelly skunk and a heavy rhinoceros sitting on him and…

JahadAbad Children’s Step Towards Knowledge

A Report of the Improvement of Out-of-school JahadAbad Children  Date: March 2019 It’s only been a few months since JahadAbad children entered the classroom and now they are full-fledged students! JahadAbad is a village in the marginal…

Children at Mehr-o-Mah Empowerment Center, in Search of their Island of Happiness

The Island of Happiness, a book written by Marit Törnqvist, tells the tale of a girl in search of happiness. Due to its poetic, philosophical content and exquisite illustrations, this book won the award for best illustrated book of Flanders…

A Teacher Who Believes in the Magic of Words

His name is Ahmad. A teacher from Hirmand, Sistan & Balouchestan. He teaches the sixth grade at an Elementary School. He is the sort of teacher who knows the village. He knows its children. Because he has once been one of them. On the other…

Children Aren’t Forgotten during New Year’s Holidays!

This year, New Year's holidays passed, with all the good news and the bitter ones. Yet Read with Me teachers, librarians and promoters, carried books around even on their trips. So that every chance they got, they would take children on a different…

A Letter to Author, from the Earthquake-stricken Kermanshah

A girl from the earthquake-stricken Rijaab in Kermanshah, Iran, writes a letter to author, MohammadHadi Mohammadi. The librarian of this city, sent a photo of this letter to Read with Me project coordinators in Tehran: “From Sahar Hello…