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Literacy Volunteers: Help Students Become Published Authors at Open Books!
ORGANIZATION: Open Books
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- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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49 people are interested
Read ThenWrite is an immersive reading, writing, and publishing experience for teenage authors. Our amazing volunteer coaches work with small groups of students to guide them through the entire program. Students read high-quality literature meant to engage their minds, provoke discussion, and broaden their horizons. Open Books chooses texts that echo the lives and experiences of the students in the program and complement our partner schools' existing curricula. Titles we've used include Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes, Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty by G. Neri, and Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman. Students write a short memoir/personal narrative. Emphasizing non-fiction writing allows students the opportunity to reflect on their lives and choices they have made - both a therapeutic and empowering experience. Students work on their pieces for many weeks, with constant oversight and caring feedback from their volunteer writing coaches. Open Books publishes the students' polished stories into a group anthology and celebrates the newly minted writers at a gala author launch in our award-winning bookstore. Students finish the program with two monumental things: a published book, and a new sense of self-confidence.
Next Steps: This is an in-school program, so locations and schedules vary by site. Read all of the details on the program and find the schedule and locations here. Then, sign up for an orientation here.
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About Open Books
Location:
651 W. Lake St., Suite 305, Chicago, IL 60661, US
Mission Statement
Open Books is a volunteer-based literacy organization and nonprofit bookstore dedicated to raising awareness about illiteracy and fostering a love of reading by people of all ages and skills.
Description
Open Books is Chicago's first nonprofit literacy bookstore and learning center: a two-storied dream where proceeds from the sale of 50,000+ used books on the fun, colorful, comfortable first floor will go to fund a spectrum of unique adult, family, and computer literacy programs upstairs. Volunteers work with literacy groups around the city to help students of all ages make literacy a fun and fundamental part of their lives.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
various locationsChicago, IL 60610
DATE POSTED
January 15, 2018
SKILLS
- General Education
- Literacy / Reading
- Reading / Writing
GOOD FOR
- People 55+
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
- Background Check
- Must be at least 18
- Orientation or Training
- 2-3 hours per week for duration of session