Authors Read Aloud

Since its inception in 1992, Learning Leaders’ Authors Read Aloud program has mobilized children’s book authors and illustrators as volunteers to help introduce elementary school students to the creative writing process and to inspire in them a love of books and reading.

    Tracy Dockray reads to 3rd graders.

Through Authors Read Aloud, children’s authors/illus­trators conduct four class sessions in which they read aloud from their own published books or works-in-progress, share their inspiration and help children write their own stories. These visits culminate in a writing workshop, in which students share their work and the author/illustrator provides advice and constructive criticism.

Every teacher, without exception, praised the program, not only for the way it helped the students academi­cally, but even more, for the lessons in compassionate behavior that a number of these books inspired. As one teacher remarked, “Their [the children’s] minds were stretched in every direction.” Quite an accomplishment!

For more information contact Claire Campbell at 646-519-8370 or email authorsreadaloud@learningleaders.org.