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The Way I Feel Book by Janan Cain

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Feelings are neither good nor bad, they simply are. Kids need words to name their feelings, just as they need words to name all things in their world. The Way...

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Introducing this year’s shared resource document for ALL BOOKS – use this to share any resources you have found or created for the book(s) you are doing. If you want to change permissions on it, you need to make your own copy.

Go to the book tab you are doing and look at the resources already shared, feel free to also add anything you have you want to share whether it is ideas, slowchat information, postcard sign ups etc. Hopefully this will be an easier way for people to share rather than ideas getting lost on Facebook.

New this year is a place to search for connections as well, please add in your information if you would like others to connect with you and don’t feel like posting on Facebook. Each book has its own Google doc for this which is where you can post connections wanted, the document can be found within the shared resource document under each unique tab.

You can also keep posting connections wanted on Facebook but in case you don’t use it or find that confusing, I hope these resources will make your life easier.

I cannot wait for another year of Global Read Aloud! Which book will you be reading?

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For many years, participants have asked for Global Read Aloud merchandise and while t-shirts and such have been available for a few years,  last year I ordered 1,000 stickers just for fun.   Since then I have been sending them out to those who would like them, a small token of pride and appreciation in this global project.

I like to receive mail and I like to send mail, so I thought now would be a great time to spread a little Global Read Aloud love in the world.

So if you are someone who would like a sticker there are two options.  Either say hi at a conference if you see me somewhere in the wild (I’ll be at Iowa Reading in June and IRC in October in-person) OR send me a self-addressed stamped envelope and I will send you one .  You can ask for colleagues etc in one envelope, you do not need to send separate envelopes, just make sure it has your address on it and it is stamped with e regular stamp. To see my home address, please fill out this form with your email address and I will send you my address to mail your envelope to.

This is the sticker, it is the same one as last year.

If you are outside of the US and really hoping to get a sticker, just contact me and we can see if we can figure something out.

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Are you ready for the final reveal? So far I have shared the following choices:

  • Picture Book Author Study – Duncan Tonatiuh
  • Early Reader’s Choice – Dragons in a Bag by Zetta Elliott
  • Middle Grade Choice – The Jumbies by Tracey Baptiste
  • Middle School Choice – The Barren Grounds by David A. Robertson

In a world that is upside down, still, I have found myself reaching for fantasy books more and more. As a way to learn about our past and consider our future, the realm of fantasy allows us to escape, dig in, and dream of what can be. While the worlds may be unfamiliar, their messages are not and we can find comfort, hope, joy, even in the darkest parts of their stories. Our Global Read Aloud choices offer up hope in the most human way; tales of overcoming, tales of finding your own strength, tales or relying on community to come together in order to defeat a common enemy. It is what the world has shown us in the past year as well, it is what has kept many afloat, many alive. And so we shall gather around these books and continue to build community. We shall share these read alouds as way to connect across city lines, country borders, and oceans. We shall hopefully find similarities within the heroic journeys of the stories we read that let us see how we, too, can be heroes in our way.

WHAT IS INFORMATION YOU MAY WANT RIGHT NOW?

  • Kick off will be October 4th and the project will run for six weeks as usual, ending on November 12th. You can absolutely fall behind or start later, just don’t read ahead.
  • The official hashtag for the year is #GRA21, all other hashtags have been announced with their book selection.
  • The hashtag for this book will be #GRAElatsoe
  • Because the book is longer you can still choose to do a full read aloud or do it as a book study where you read some parts aloud and others are read in other ways. If the book is too long for you to fit into 6 weeks, you can always stretch it into further weeks or choose The Barren Grounds – the middle school choice – which would also be a great read for the young adult category.
  • For a comprehensive FAQ post, go here
  • To join the main Facebook group, please go here. To join the young adult Facebook group, please go here. This is where news will be posted for the most part. Following me on Twitter may also give you information.

SO WHAT IS THIS YEAR’S YOUNG ADULT BOOK….

Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger!

Elatsoe—Ellie for short—lives in an alternate contemporary America shaped by the ancestral magics and knowledge of its Indigenous and immigrant groups. She can raise the spirits of dead animals—most importantly, her ghost dog Kirby. When her beloved cousin dies, all signs point to a car crash, but his ghost tells her otherwise: He was murdered.

Who killed him and how did he die? With the help of her family, her best friend Jay, and the memory great, great, great, great, great, great grandmother, Elatsoe, must track down the killer and unravel the mystery of this creepy town and its dark past. But will the nefarious townsfolk and a mysterious Doctor stop her before she gets started?

A breathtaking debut novel featuring an asexual, Apache teen protagonist, Elatsoe combines mystery, horror, noir, ancestral knowledge, haunting illustrations, fantasy elements, and is one of the most-talked about debuts of the year.

I first encountered Elatsoe after all of the accolades had been heaped on it and after reading it I get why the book world was abuzz with excitement for this book. It has quickly become one of my most recommended titles in my classroom and to other teachers. It combines some of my favorite components; a strong main character who is grounded within tradition and family, the supernatural that needs to be defeated, the strong ties to history and the invitation to conversation about how our past defines our present. I promise this read will not disappoint.

THE READING CALENDAR WILL BE AS FOLLOWS:

Week 1: Oct. 4th – 8th : Chapters 1 – 6

Week 2: Oct. 11th – 15th: Chapters 7 – 12

Week 3: Oct. 18 – 22nd: Chapters 13 – 18

Week 4: Oct. 25th – 29th: Chapters 19 – 24

Week 5: Nov. 1st – 5th: Chapters 25 -30

Week 6: Nov. 8th – 12th: Chapters 31 – end

Don’t worry about falling behind, just don’t read ahead and if you need to start later, please do.

Please consider following Darcie’s work on social media and supporting your local independent bookstores with your book purchases. If you want to support the Global Read Aloud, please consider purchasing your books through the links placed here, the GRA gets a small affiliate percentage whenever books are purchased through Bookshop.org – a website that sends orders through local bookstores.  If your school requires you to go through Amazon, please consider using this link to purchase the book in order to support the Global Read Aloud.

I hope you like these choices, and if not, that’s okay too, then come back next year.

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Are you ready for the next reveal? So far I have shared the following choices:

  • Picture Book Author Study – Duncan Tonatiuh
  • Early Reader’s Choice – Dragons in a Bag by Zetta Elliott
  • Middle Grade Choice – The Jumbies by Tracey Baptiste

In a world that is upside down, still, I have found myself reaching for fantasy books more and more. As a way to learn about our past and consider our future, the realm of fantasy allows us to escape, dig in, and dream of what can be. While the worlds may be unfamiliar, their messages are not and we can find comfort, hope, joy, even in the darkest parts of their stories. Our Global Read Aloud choices offer up hope in the most human way; tales of overcoming, tales of finding your own strength, tales or relying on community to come together in order to defeat a common enemy. It is what the world has shown us in the past year as well, it is what has kept many afloat, many alive. And so we shall gather around these books and continue to build community. We shall share these read alouds as way to connect across city lines, country borders, and oceans. We shall hopefully find similarities within the heroic journeys of the stories we read that let us see how we, too, can be heroes in our way.

WHAT IS INFORMATION YOU MAY WANT RIGHT NOW?

  • Kick off will be October 4th and the project will run for six weeks as usual, ending on November 12th. You can absolutely fall behind or start later, just don’t read ahead.
  • The official hashtag for the year is #GRA21, other hashtags will be announced once all the books are.
  • The hashtag for this book will be #GRABarren
  • For a comprehensive FAQ post, go here
  • To join the main Facebook group, please go here. To join the middle school Facebook group, please go here. This is where news will be posted for the most part.

SO WHAT IS THIS YEAR’S MIDDLE SCHOOL BOOK….

The Barren Grounds by David Alex Robertson

Narnia meets traditional Indigenous stories of the sky and constellations in an epic middle grade fantasy series from award-winning author David Robertson.

Morgan and Eli, two Indigenous children forced away from their families and communities, are brought together in a foster home in Winnipeg, Manitoba. They each feel disconnected, from their culture and each other, and struggle to fit in at school and at their new home — until they find a secret place, walled off in an unfinished attic bedroom. A portal opens to another reality, Askí, bringing them onto frozen, barren grounds, where they meet Ochek (Fisher). The only hunter supporting his starving community, Misewa, Ochek welcomes the human children, teaching them traditional ways to survive. But as the need for food becomes desperate, they embark on a dangerous mission. Accompanied by Arik, a sassy Squirrel they catch stealing from the trapline, they try to save Misewa before the icy grip of winter freezes everything — including them.

In 2020, I had the honor of listening to David speak at the incredible conference Reading for the Love of It in Toronto. In his personal presentation he shared these words, “With accurate representation in story we can offer kids the truth about their lives that we were never offered growing up…” and those words have traveled with me since. What we read matters so much to our students and to the lives that they give value in the world. What we experience together through our read alouds become the shared language we speak, the tapestry that weaves us together. I am, therefore, thrilled to be bringing his newest series, The Misewa Saga, into the Global Read Aloud. Through his writing he allows us all into a world centered in love, tradition, hope and survival. Following the voices of Morgan and Eli as they crawl through a portal to a snow-covered land, we see what hope does, what resilience and strength passed down through generations of persecution can do as they face the battles of a new world. It is a story centered in strength and one that I hope will inspire us all.

THE READING CALENDAR WILL BE AS FOLLOWS:

Week 1: Oct. 4th – 8th : Chapters 1 – 5

Week 2: Oct. 11th – 15th: Chapters 6 – 10

Week 3: Oct. 18 – 22nd: Chapters 11 – 14

Week 4: Oct. 25th – 29th: Chapters 15 – 18

Week 5: Nov. 1st – 5th: Chapters 19 -22

Week 6: Nov. 8th – 12th: Chapters 23 – end

Don’t worry about falling behind, just don’t read ahead and if you need to start later, please do.

Please consider following David’s work on social media and supporting your local independent bookstores with your book purchases. If you want to support the Global Read Aloud, please consider purchasing your books through the links placed here, the GRA gets a small affiliate percentage whenever books are purchased through Bookshop.org – a website that sends orders through local bookstores.  If your school requires you to go through Amazon, please consider using this link to purchase the book in order to support the Global Read Aloud.

I hope you like these choices, and if not, that’s okay too, then come back next year.

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Are you ready for the next reveal? So far I have shared the following choices:

  • Picture Book Author Study – Duncan Tonatiuh
  • Early Readers Chapter Books – Dragons in A Bag by Zetta Elliot

In a world that is upside down, still, I have found myself reaching for fantasy books more and more. As a way to learn about our past and consider our future, the realm of fantasy allows us to escape, dig in, and dream of what can be. While the worlds may be unfamiliar, their messages are not and we can find comfort, hope, joy, even in the darkest parts of their stories. Our Global Read Aloud choices offer up hope in the most human way; tales of overcoming, tales of finding your own strength, tales or relying on community to come together in order to defeat a common enemy. It is what the world has shown us in the past year as well, it is what has kept many afloat, many alive. And so we shall gather around these books and continue to build community. We shall share these read alouds as way to connect across city lines, country borders, and oceans. We shall hopefully find similarities within the heroic journeys of the stories we read that let us see how we, too, can be heroes in our way.

WHAT IS INFORMATION YOU MAY WANT RIGHT NOW?

  • Kick off will be October 4th and the project will run for six weeks as usual, ending on November 12th. You can absolutely fall behind or start later, just don’t read ahead.
  • The official hashtag for the year is #GRA21, other hashtags will be announced once all the books are.
  • The hashtag for this book will be #GRAJumbies
  • For a comprehensive FAQ post, go here
  • To join the main Facebook group, please go here. To join the middle grade Facebook group, please go here. This is where news will be posted for the most part.

SO WHAT IS THIS YEAR’S MIDDLE GRADE BOOK….

The Jumbies by Tracey Baptiste!

Corinne La Mer claims she isn’t afraid of anything. Not scorpions, not the boys who tease her, and certainly not jumbies. They’re just tricksters made up by parents to frighten their children. Then one night Corinne chases an agouti all the way into the forbidden forest, and shining yellow eyes follow her to the edge of the trees. They couldn’t belong to a jumbie. Or could they?When Corinne spots a beautiful stranger at the market the very next day, she knows something extraordinary is about to happen. When this same beauty, called Severine, turns up at Corinne’s house, danger is in the air. Severine plans to claim the entire island for the jumbies. Corinne must call on her courage and her friends and learn to use ancient magic she didn’t know she possessed to stop Severine and to save her island home.

I have loved The Jumbies series for a long time and think that Tracey Baptiste is a national treasure, and for a long time I have wanted to use The Jumbies as one of our choices, well, this year feels like the right year. While this book may be a little bit scary for younger kids, it begs to be read aloud, discussed, lived in and also invites in beautiful conversations about finding your own strength, about folk and fairytales, about family and about love. It will draw in our readers with its action and mystery. It will leave us wanting to learn more.

The reading calendar will be as follows:

Week 1: Oct. 4th – 8th : Chapters 1 – 7

Week 2: Oct. 11th – 15th: Chapters 8 – 14

Week 3: Oct. 18 – 22nd: Chapters 15-21

Week 4: Oct. 25th – 29th: Chapters 22 – 26

Week 5: Nov. 1st – 5th: Chapters 27 – 39

Week 6: Nov. 8th – 12th: Chapters 40 – end

Don’t worry about falling behind, just don’t read ahead and if you need to start later, please do.

Please consider following Tracey’s work on social media and supporting your local independent bookstores with your book purchases. If you want to support the Global Read Aloud, please consider purchasing your books through the links placed here, the GRA gets a small affiliate percentage whenever books are purchased through Bookshop.org – a website that sends orders through local bookstores.  If your school requires you to go through Amazon, please consider using this link to purchase the book in order to support the Global Read Aloud.

I hope you like these choices, and if not, that’s okay too, then come back next year.

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Are you ready for the next reveal? So far I have shared the following choices:

  • Picture Book Author Study – Duncan Tonatiuh

In a world that is upside down, still, I have found myself reaching for fantasy books more and more. As a way to learn about our past and consider our future, the realm of fantasy allows us to escape, dig in, and dream of what can be. While the worlds may be unfamiliar, their messages are not and we can find comfort, hope, joy, even in the darkest parts of their stories. Our Global Read Aloud choices offer up hope in the most human way; tales of overcoming, tales of finding your own strength, tales or relying on community to come together in order to defeat a common enemy. It is what the world has shown us in the past year as well, it is what has kept many afloat, many alive. And so we shall gather around these books and continue to build community. We shall share these read alouds as way to connect across city lines, country borders, and oceans. We shall hopefully find similarities within the heroic journeys of the stories we read that let us see how we, too, can be heroes in our way.

WHAT IS INFORMATION YOU MAY WANT RIGHT NOW?

  • Kick off will be October 4th and the project will run for six weeks as usual, ending on November 12th. You can absolutely fall behind or start later, just don’t read ahead.
  • The official hashtag for the year is #GRA21, other hashtags will be announced once all the books are.
  • The hashtag for this book will be #GRADragons
  • For a comprehensive FAQ post, go here
  • To join the main Facebook group, please go here. To join the early reader’s Facebook group, please go here. This is where news will be posted for the most part.

SO WHAT IS THIS YEAR’S EARLY READER BOOK….

Dragons in a Bag by Zetta Elliott

When Jaxon is sent to spend the day with a mean old lady his mother calls Ma, he finds out she’s not his grandmother–but she is a witch! She needs his help delivering baby dragons to a magical world where they’ll be safe. There are two rules when it comes to the dragons: don’t let them out of the bag, and don’t feed them anything sweet. Before he knows it, Jax and his friends Vikram and Kavita have broken both rules! Will Jax get the baby dragons delivered safe and sound? Or will they be lost in Brooklyn forever?

I have loved the work of Zetta Elliott for many years, her span is incredible and so is her immense power to draw us into her stories. She writes beautiful characters whose lives unfold in front of us while also leaving us wanting more. Jaxon is a hero navigating the world with courage, love, and resilience. He is a relatable young man whose quest to right wrongs is one that many kids can relate to and even better, it is the first book in a series so you can continue Jaxon’s adventures even after the GRA reads.

The reading calendar will be as follows:

Week 1: Oct. 4th – 8th : Chapters 1 – 3

Week 2: Oct. 11th – 15th: Chapters 4 – 6

Week 3: Oct. 18 – 22nd: Chapters 7 – 8

Week 4: Oct. 25th – 29th: Chapters 9 – 10

Week 5: Nov. 1st – 5th: Chapters 11 -12

Week 6: Nov. 8th – 12th: Chapters 13 – end

Don’t worry about falling behind, just don’t read ahead and if you need to start later, please do.

Please consider following Zetta’s work on social media and supporting your local independent bookstores with your book purchases. If you want to support the Global Read Aloud, please consider purchasing your books through the links placed here, the GRA gets a small affiliate percentage whenever books are purchased through Bookshop. org – a website that sends orders through local bookstores. If your school requires you to go through Amazon, please consider using this link to purchase the book in order to support the Global Read Aloud.

I hope you like these choices, and if not, that’s okay too, then come back next year.

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This year, I am decididng to take things a little more slowly in order to really relish who the choices are. So little by little, the chosen books and authors will be revealed, I hope you don’t mind.

In a world that is upside down, still, I have found myself reaching for fantasy books more and more. As a way to learn about our past and consider our future, the realm of fantasy allows us to escape, dig in, and dream of what can be. While the worlds may be unfamiliar, their messages are not and we can find comfort, hope, joy, even in the darkest parts of their stories. Our Global Read Aloud choices offer up hope in the most human way; tales of overcoming, tales of finding your own strength, tales or relying on community to come together in order to defeat a common enemy. It is what the world has shown us in the past year as well, it is what has kept many afloat, many alive. And so we shall gather around these books and continue to build community. We shall share these read alouds as way to connect across city lines, country borders, and oceans. We shall hopefully find similarities within the heroic journeys of the stories we read that let us see how we, too, can be heroes in our way.

WHAT IS INFORMATION YOU MAY WANT RIGHT NOW?

  • Kick off will be October 4th and the project will run for six weeks as usual, ending on November 12th. You can absolutely fall behind or start later, just don’t read ahead.
  • The official hashtag for the year is #GRA21, other hashtags will be announced once the books are.
  • The hashtag for Duncan Tonatiuh will be #GRADuncan
  • For a comprehensive FAQ post, go here
  • To join the main Facebook group, please go here. To join the picture book author Facebook group, please go here. This is where news will be posted for the most part.

So who is this year’s picture book study….

This year’s chosen creator is Duncan Tonatiuh!

Duncan was born in Mexico City and grew up in San Miguel de Allende. He graduated from Parsons The New School for Design and from Eugene Lang College in New York City in 2008. His work is inspired by Ancient Mexican art, particularly that of the Mixtec codex. His aim is to create images that honor the past, but that address contemporary issues that affect people of Mexican origin on both sides of the border. His book Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote: A Migrant’s Tale is the winner of the 2014 Tomás Rivera Mexican American children’s book award. It is also the first book to receive two honorable mentions, one for the illustrations and one for the text, from the Pura Belpré Award for a work that best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in children’s books. The book was featured in USA Today, The Chicago Sun, The Houston Chronicle among other major publications because it deals with the controversial topic of immigration. His book Diego Rivera: His World and Ours won the 2012 Pura Belpré illustration award. It also won the 2012 Tomás Rivera. His first book Dear Primo: A Letter to My Cousin received an honorable mention from the Pura Belpré Award in 2011. It was named an Americas Award Commended Title and a Notable Book for a Global Society list.

Week 1:1st Week: Dear Primo

Week 2:2nd week; The Princess and the Warrior

Week 3:3rd week: Feathered Serpent and the Five Suns

Week 4:4th week: Separate is Never Equal

Week 5:5th Week: Diego Rivera: His World and Ours

Week 6:

I am so excited to dive into the fantastic world of Duncan Tonatiuh, there is just so much to uncover. Because Duncan has so many incredible books to choose from, you can also feel free to substitute other of his books in for the ones chosen above, some of his picture books are geared a little older so feel free to make the selections work for you. Please consider following Duncan’s work on social media and supporting your local independent bookstores with your book purchases. If you want to support the Global Read Aloud, please consider purchasing your books through the links placed here, the GRA gets a small affiliate percentage whenever books are purchased through Bookshop.org – a website that sends orders through local bookstores. If your school requires you to use Amazon to order the books, please consider using this link to place your order and support the GRA.

I hope you like these choices, and if not, that’s okay too, then come back next year.

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In June 2020, I wrote a post saying that perhaps 2020 would be the last year. for the GRA That after 11 years, perhaps it was time to say goodbye, end on a high note, move on to other things. Mired by the pressures of the world, bogged down by the usual emails and comments disparaging the choices of books, overwhelmed by the world, that decision felt like the right decision at that time. In June, 2020, I could not have imagined how I would feel now in February 2021, in a world that still feels extraordinarily heavy. That is still moving at a very slow pace as we look for small glimpses of hope in the form of a vaccine, in the form of brief moments of togetherness that has eluded us for so long.

And so as I sat across from my husband last night, celebrating our 16th wedding anniversary at home pretending to be at our favorite restaurant, he brought up research that is being done right now on the power of hope and having things to look forward to. That for the first time in a long time researchers are noticing that people are not planning for things in the long-term because COVID has bogged us down for so long. That we are not planning trips, we are not making plans in the future and that they wonder what not having things to look forward to will do to us as human beings. And it made me think once again about the power of the GRA. About the many emails, comments, and reach outs I received after announcing that 2020 might be the last year. How some of you told me that it was the one constant in your year, that it was one of the biggest things that you looked forward to, that there had to be some way to keep it going. And you kept telling me, periodically an email would show up asking if I had made a decision, would I reconsider? And I had been thinking of it, after all, due to COVID teaching I didn’t even get to do it with my own students this year, it felt unfinished in some ways.

And so last night I made the decision that I have been pulled toward for a long time. The Global Read Aloud will be back, albeit a bit more streamlined, but it will happen in 2021. I feel a bit like a flake, like I played with a lot of people’s emotions, but in June it didn’t feel possible, now it does. And I hope you can forgive me for that.

So a few changes you may notice for this year are:

  • There will be no sign up, just join the Facebook community or stay tuned to this website for updates. That way I don’t have to send out emails all of the time to all of the new sign ups.
  • There will be no voting. Having contenders meant a lot of people got mad when they didn’t feel the right book was selected, so this way it should feel more streamlined; if you don’t like the choice, simple, don’t do the GRA this year.

What is information you may want right now?

  • Kick off will be October 4th and the project will run for six weeks as usual, ending on November 12th.
  • The official hashtag for the year is #GRA21, other hashtags will be announced once the books are.
  • Books will be announced end of March, beginning of April.
  • I will continue to try to find books that speak to a broader world experience, whether set somewhere outside of the US or with a broader global appeal, I am still looking for suggestions, so please consider nominating books here

I hope you consider joining me again as we continue to connect around the world, as we continue to create larger conversations centered in understanding, in acceptance, in empathy. I am excited for another year of reading together, I hope you are as well. If you have other ideas or questions please leave them in the comments.

Stay safe,

Pernille

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Friday marked the official end date of the 2020 Global Read Aloud. The end of 11 years of reading aloud. The end of 11 years of connecting. Of discovering new books and old. Of finding more similarities than differences. Of making the world smaller. Of bringing us all together.

The day was quiet for me. The only moment of the project popping up was that night in conversation with my husband when I mentioned that today was the last day. He asked, how did I feel?

Thankful came to mind first. For all of you who committed even though it was yet one more thing to do in already very full year. Thankful for the love, the care, the ideas, the passion, the commitment, and the vision for my small project.

In awe also came to mind. That these books that I read at home made it around the world. That people flocked to the wonder of these creators. That people saw the worth and the value in reading books that may upset some and yet lead us to deeper connections and hopefully into action for a more just and humane society. We needed it. We still need it.

And yet there were other emotions as well. Relief that another year successfully happened without too many bruises, without too many disappointed emails or attacks on me for the political indoctrination I am supposedly orchestrating globally. A sense of satisfaction of being able to navigate all of the behind the scenes work again. Pride, of course, of this idea still being something others see value in. Proud of yet another year of connecting, of seeing the change these books have brought, but I was also sad. I wasn’t able to do the Global Read Aloud this year due to limited time while teaching virtually. I know many are in the same boat. Not being able to do it one more time makes it feel incomplete. Like there is still a chapter to be written. Like perhaps, when I have had a little space, we can try again.

So this isn’t to tease with anyone’s emotions or to get hopes up too high, but perhaps, we do it one more year? Perhaps, we read and search for books and if those books exist that would be worth reading aloud around the world, we go at it again. Perhaps this year doesn’t have to be a full goodbye but more like a goodbye tour, one last stop before the lights go down?

For now, the Facebook group will stay open. This website will too. The form to submit books will also be open, give me your ideas, please. I won’t do sign up, not yet, not until I know for certain that I want to do it again. And that means I need some time to think, to find my own feet again, to focus for a bit on my virtual classrooms, my kids, our dreams of finding teaching jobs in Denmark so we can go home.

So for now, this is just a see you later. A deep and heartfelt thank you to all of you who have participated, who have shared it, who have made it your own, who have brought others along, who have dreamed, and believed, and read, and reached out. Thank you for your love, your years, your voices, and your care.

Stay safe, stay healthy, stay home if you need to, and read some books.

All the love,

Pernille

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Eleven years ago, I started the Global Read Aloud on little more than an idea and a hope; that perhaps through a shared read aloud we could create pathways around the world, expanding our knowledge but shrinking our otherization, growing our curiosity, and diminishing hate.  That by sitting with the same book in our hands and gathering around the act of listening we could open up a flow of questions that would ultimately lead to a deeper acknowledgment of our own shared humanity and perhaps leave us all with a sense of needing to take care of one another more.   Perhaps a lofty goal, but a goal nonetheless.  And so we read, and shared, and connected, and sat in awe of the stories and of the power of others as we traveled around the world through technology, as we played Mystery Skype to figure out where all these new friends were, as authors took us behind the scenes and told us their secrets as we marveled at the worlds they had created.  We knew it was magical.  We knew that the books were not just pages glued together but portals to a world where with reading at its heart we saw a path forward for better.  We knew that being able to bring the world in through this shared read aloud somehow made the walls disappear, if even for a moment so that we truly could see the people we all are connected to.

This year is the final year of the GRA and I am ready to stand back in awe.  To marvel at all of the good that this one idea has brought into the world.  It will leave a hole in the world of literacy and also in my own life, but I know that in that hole is an opportunity for even further connections and innovation to reside.   That out there are new ideas concocted by someone who sees a way to push our connections even further, to continue to remind us of our debt to each other. 

So this year, in a year that seems to have brought so many horrors into our lives, we gather one last time around the magnificent books and the creators behind them.  We push ourselves extra hard as we run this final mile.  We take the risks, we open up, we sit in the knowledge that together we are more, that together we can.  We hold our breath before we crack open the book and then let the connections happen as we ask our kids to ponder the worlds that Juana Martinez-Neal, Traci Sorrell, Charlene Willing McManis, Zanib Mian, Jason Reynolds, and Linda Sue Park have invented for us.  We reach out so that we can once again let one book connect the world.  And we know that through the shared love of a read aloud and a shared love of our students, we, too, changed the world.

And so in partnership with Skype in the Classroom, I would like to invite you to celebrate these incredible books and authors as we gather one last time. And what better way to do it than asking the very creators themselves to share a glimpse of their world and their work? To allow the Global Read Aloud to be connected with them as we celebrate these connections and pathways toward a more just world? I don’t have the right words to thank these incredible people for wanting to give any kind of time to this little project i dreamed up 11 years ago, I hope maybe you can help me in expressing our gratitude by sharing their books, by buying their books, by reviewing their books and making these books part of our stories for years to come.

Who will we welcome and when?

October 9th we welcome Jason Reynolds.October 16th we welcome Zanib MianOctober 30th we welcome Linda Sue ParkNovember 6th we welcome Juana Martinez-Neal

It has been 11 years of love for books, of care for a world that at times feels really lonely and harsh. 11 years of dreaming. 11 years of trust. Of hope. And of connections. Won’t you join me for this last year as we celebrate all that we did and all that we are?

Reading aloud or how to make your voice beautiful and diction clear | | Goldiga

Good afternoon. Today I want to talk about my experience of reading aloud.
Many years ago, I somehow spontaneously began to read aloud, but I did not last long. However, even then, on a whim, I chose the right path, reading aloud meant that I could make my diction clearer and my voice more beautiful, but then I had not yet seen the whole picture. My voice at that time seemed to me disgusting, besides, I burr, it was painful.

Years later..
My background is that three years ago, as an adult, I decided to correct my burr. To fix a new sound, it was necessary to read different texts aloud. And I began to read, week after week and month after month. What did I get besides the burr fix?
The first year, I read because I needed it to fix the sound r. And then, because I liked it, it became my hobby. It was only later, I began to notice how my voice was changing, and my diction was becoming clearer.

My speech is clearer, sounds clearer, more expressive, I can pronounce complex phrases without any problems.
I recorded my voice half a year apart. And the result was obvious, it was still my voice, but it became different - melodic, iridescent. Somewhere I heard a saying that reading aloud makes speech like a river that flows freely and melodiously. Great practice to improve your speaking skills. Both the great announcer Levitan and the ancient orator Demosthenes constantly read the texts aloud, constantly practicing. Practice is success every time!
Fiction is better suited for reciting, since its texts are not burdened with heavy, incomprehensible words and phrases, and the very essence of the text is light and uncomplicated.
Already in the first year, I lost all sense for myself to read fiction books about myself. Of course, this is connected with my life philosophy, which said that a person should learn something and not waste time on empty things. Therefore, there must be some obvious benefit from books. I used to read fiction books to myself and didn't think that I was wasting my time. What use can be from art books, I ask myself and you?! Of course it is, but not so big. At this time, reading fiction to myself is a waste of time for me!
What if, I open Sherlock Holmes and start reading it out loud! This is a completely different matter, I feel the life of the characters, their mood. And meanwhile, how nice to know that my speech will become more lively and smooth after half an hour of reading aloud. I will feed on the text, energy, mood, improve my oratory skills and do other things. And I will not sit for five hours and read books excitedly, which in fact do not give me anything. I have seen many tongue-tied stupid people who love to read books, they read them to themselves. I, on the other hand, do not just read a book from nothing to do, wasting a lot of time, but I develop speech, diction and a manner of expressing myself beautifully. I immediately practice, in fact, repeat aloud all the turns of speech of the writers! Not bad, I practice right away, I don’t read how to do it, I don’t think about the future, but right now. And instead of three hours of reading to myself, half an hour is enough for me to enjoy reading and get enough of it for the day. I saved a lot of time, and developed my voice, enriched my speech in practice! What could be better!?

Public speaking and reading aloud are inseparable concepts!

In daytime Greece, reading to oneself was generally condemned. This was considered a sacrilegious attitude towards books written with such labor and love. In Rus' during the time of Pushkin in particular, people often got together and read books aloud. In every home, in the circle of family and friends, at feasts and holidays. It was a natural and interesting activity, widespread everywhere.
For beginners, reading aloud can cause dizziness and fatigue. Read for your pleasure, no need to set records. Practice will gradually increase the time and quality of reading.

Scientists say that reading aloud is one of the most difficult activities for the human mind, as the higher areas of the cerebral cortex are involved. And in general, speech itself is a rather complex brain process, deciphering signs into sounds and their voicing. According to my personal observations, after reading in the evening, I seem to gain strength, my mood improves, my thoughts brighten. I also like the feeling of ease of speech, after reading aloud. My diction is clearer than most people's.
Read slowly, pronouncing the words, do not swallow or eat them, take your time. Diction improves by an order of magnitude in a couple of weeks of daily reading. Your voice, which half a year ago you didn’t really like to listen to on recordings, suddenly ceases to annoy you. And quite the contrary, you are interested in watching how you sound. Personally, I don't want to be a great speaker, I don't read with pebbles (nuts) in my mouth. But, I have lost all sense of reading fiction to myself. I no longer feel the pleasure that I used to get. Because after reading aloud, I am always satisfied with my choice and satisfied with the reward given to me without delay. I read for half a year, and then I recorded my voice and listened to it. I didn't recognize it, it was clean, I was pleasantly surprised, so I turned on the audio recording on my phone again and again. Then, it became a motivator to continue the practice of reading aloud. Believe me, there is nothing better for a speaker than reading aloud. You are afraid of the stage, mumble, blush, stumble. Start reading aloud, that's all you need to succeed!
What is the use of reading romance novels or any other kind of fiction!? Indulge in dreams of the empty and distant, if I can already do myself a favor, enrich my speech in practice. Right now, improve diction, better understand the plot and characters, voice them. I began to laugh much more often, reading liberates, I get used to sounding here and now. When I read aloud, I do not waste time, even if I read nonsense.

Of course, technical and educational literature does not need to be read aloud. When I learn something specific, I want to think about it silently. But 30-40 minutes a day, and sometimes more than an hour, I take fiction and read aloud. To be honest, sometimes I read every day for months, but sometimes I don't read for weeks, that's fine. In terms of mood, it's not a problem. No need to do something through force, try, practice, as soon as you see the pros, you will no longer need to look for motivation!

Twice I have read Julverne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. I took a bath while reading, for total immersion in the book. haha!

I think that for a person who wants to be successful and communicative, clear speech is very important. It's not only that you will sound better, but you will also feel more confident, this will not come immediately, but with practice. And people will appreciate you, I'm sure they will! I suffered for a long time from my burriness and missed many opportunities in this life due to complexes and fears. If you have children, read aloud to them. Teach them to read aloud themselves, this will be a huge help in learning and communicating with peers.
I no longer read fiction to myself, and this is my manifesto. I urge you to try to read something aloud today as well. Yes, it takes practice, it is likely that at first it will be very difficult for you. You may be surprised that you read aloud almost syllable by syllable at all - this is normal! Everything that happens to you .. in general, anywhere and however you like, is normal!-) Reading aloud is hard - this is work, which, however, will be paid to you .. gifts can be said to be divine. Touch the culture of millennia, as if now you are standing on an ancient stone stage and speaking like the great orators of the past.

I wrote this note for another reason. When I read aloud, I searched for articles by typing into Google something like "Reading aloud or how to make your voice beautiful and diction clear." About the benefits of reading aloud to be inspired by the experience of other people, to read about their achievements. But I was disappointed, almost all sites steal articles from two sources. In fact, this is my feedback on the benefits of reading aloud and how it gradually changes the feeling of yourself when you speak and you are being listened to. I encourage you to take this good habit and turn it into your hobby. For me it has become pure delight, a constant practice for speaking. Now, when I speak somewhere, I sound confident and the words seem to fly out of my mouth. There were moments when my voice acquired a certain inexplicable magnetism. I remember once, I went into a communication salon and people were standing there. I asked something from the worker standing at the high tables. And suddenly everyone froze, the people who stood at the other tables fell silent. I said the phrase aloud - "and everyone immediately fell silent" - and they all laughed at my comment. In those moments, my voice sounded very magnetic, I felt it myself. All those five minutes that I was there, I got all the attention of these people. One person came up to me and began to ask me something. I was the center of this hall, I aroused interest. Of course, such magic of the voice does not happen often. Maybe then I used Indian technique. It is said that some Indian yogis who practice it have very beautiful voices. And its essence is simple, take in air and scream sharply as you exhale at the top of your lungs, squeezing the air from both your chest and stomach. Do this a couple of times and feel how your voice will sound. Again, constant practice is needed for obvious, noticeable, striking improvements.

You don't have to dedicate hours a day to reading, unless you want to make money with your voice. This is just an interesting practice and one of the aspects of self-development. I am sure that in the world of people for success, you need to be able to speak beautifully and confidently. Reading aloud will develop these abilities and will also give you some kind of freedom that I cannot describe, since it is flying and almost imperceptible.
Do everything for pleasure, if it's hard for you to read a book, drop it. Sometimes, I was lazy to read the chosen book, the text was given very hard. I thought I was exhausted and had had enough. But the very next day, I took another book and lo and behold, I read without stopping for an hour and a half, two.?

Quote -
I saw an angel in a piece of marble. And he cut the stone until he set it free.
Michelangelo Buanarotti.

And so the constant practice of reading aloud will make your speech expressive, your voice will become beautiful and overflowing, capable of conveying the beauty of words and moods. You will begin to be complimented that you have a beautiful voice, pure diction. Those who are afraid to speak in public and cannot overcome their fear - start reading, you yourself will not notice how you become a speaker, in a store, at home, among friends, more) ...

If you practice reading aloud, tell us how you got started, what you have achieved, what are your impressions. What changes in speech and diction do you feel after reading aloud.
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Thirty years ago, I had to go to the DNI.
The road was wintery and difficult.
The bus traveled for a long time through Belarus, Poland and Germany.

I don't remember how a German magazine in Russian ended up on the bus,
but I remember what surprised me in the interview with Ulitskaya, published in this magazine.

When asked how to instill in children a love of reading, Ulitskaya replied that she read
aloud to her sons until graduation.

Two years ago my daughter and I were traveling by Polish train from Malbork to Gdansk,
I was reading Pennack's book "Like a novel".
Pennack also wrote about the importance of reading aloud to adult children.

Of course, I read aloud to my older and middle daughters until I graduated from elementary school.
Moreover, I read mainly those books that were not published during the years of my childhood and youth.

We read together Roald Dahl, Michael Ende, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Paul Gallico.

And now I'm reading aloud to my youngest daughter, she's growing up,
and slowly we're moving on to reading books for teenagers.

Books "for boys" are easier to read.
I read Steinhöfel's "Rico, Oscar and Shadows Darker Than Dark" to Sonja
Sashar's "Pits" and Broach's "Masterpiece".
Since my daughter has a hard time switching from book to book, it went well for us
series about a family from Cherbourg.

And now together we are reading the famous tetralogy of Annika Thor,
successfully bought on Avito.

To be honest, I had no intention of reading these books to my daughter.
I wanted to read them myself, as they dealt with the Holocaust.

But since Sonya started learning Swedish using some
online lessons, we started reading.

Naturally, we could not stop halfway.
And now I'm finishing the third book, "The Depth of the Sea", which,
is probably too early to listen to Sonya.

In the book, Steffi, the main character, is almost sixteen years old.
Steffi's parents, Austrian Jews, are in the Terezin concentration camp;

I don't explain to my daughter what a concentration camp is, why Sweden maintained
neutrality in World War II, what
teenage pregnancy is fraught with, and
why the writer dislikes the Pentecostal church so much.

I am reading. Sonya is listening.
I, like Sonya, wonder what will happen next.

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