Read to Love you

To enrich students' winter break, an online English picture book storytelling event was held during the winter break, incorporating picture books related to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This not only enhances the children's English language skills but also encourages them to care about environmental issues around them.

Dates: February 8, 9
Time: 10:00 – 11:30
Target Audience: Children ages 6-9
Family Participants: 18 parent-child pairs
Activity Flow: Warm-up with morning song → English picture book shared reading → Learning key vocabulary and phrases from the book → Storytelling and Q&A → Small quiz interaction → Moving fingers together to sing goodbye song

Instructor: Teacher Chi Chen

The workshop aims to pass on the expertise of professional instructors to help students, educators, and interested individuals understand the techniques of storytelling and how to engage children in listening, leading them to discover the world of reading and interact with children in practical teaching environments.

Dates: June 11-12, June 18-19 (3 sessions total)
Time: 09:00 AM – 16:00 AM
Target Audience: Teachers, university students, volunteers with experience in leading storytelling activities, and interested individuals.
Total Participants: 51
Course Content: Understanding the developmental stages of young children, picture book appreciation, techniques for using voice, language, and body movements in storytelling, activity design, sharing of instructor experiences, and lesson plan content design.
※After the course, live storytelling practice and evaluation are conducted, and 23 participants passed the evaluation. 21 of them participated in the summer sustainable reading storytelling activities.
 

To ensure children have a fulfilling and enriching summer, the Kon Wen Cultural Foundation partnered with KUMON to recruit and train volunteer storytelling instructors, select SDGs-related picture books, and after months of careful planning, launched the Sustainable Joy of Reading tour in July 2022, with a total of 76 events across Taiwan.

Dates: July 18 - August 23
Total Sessions: 76
Target Audience: Children ages 5-9 and their parents
Total Participants: 1,138 children, 323 parents
Activity Flow: Warm-up activities → Story introduction → Storytelling → Extended activities using coloring books and crayons → Sharing of creative work → Commemorative group photo

The goal is to guide parents through picture book appreciation and the process of shared reading with their children under the leadership of professional instructors. Through teaching and demonstrations, parents will gradually learn how to guide their children, interact with them, and play together, with the hope that parents will apply these experiences to make shared reading a part of daily life.

Dates: November 5, November 12
Times: 10:00 AM – 12:00 AM for parent-child shared reading with children aged 3-6, 14:00 PM – 16:00 PM for parent-child shared reading with children aged 6-9
Total Sessions: 4
Target Audience: Preschool children aged 3-6, elementary school children aged 6-9, and their parents.
Total Participating Families: 52
Activity Content: Shared reading concept discussion, understanding the relationship between picture books and children's learning, imagination and creativity, understanding picture book elements, interactive Q&A

Inviting professional instructors to focus on shared reading and teaching of English picture books, this lecture will guide teachers and parents in exploring diverse English picture books, share concepts and methods for shared reading, enhance parents' understanding of picture books, and encourage educators to use English picture books to create more diverse and enriching methods for teaching English.

Date: December 17
Times: Parent Session 10:00AM – 12:00PM / Teacher Session 14:00 PM – 16:00 PM
Total Sessions: 2
Target Audience: Parents, English teachers, preschool teachers, educators, students in related departments, and interested individuals.
Total Participants: 183
Activity Content: Picture book appreciation, how to share read English picture books, extended parent-child reading activities, picture book recommendations

Teacher: Zhen Zhen Yang
 

The goal is to increase reading motivation by setting reading goals and rewards, allowing parents and children to read together at home in a planned manner. By writing in the reading passbook together, it also strengthens parent-child interaction and discussion, fostering a reading habit.

Event Period: March – December
Target Audience: Preschool, elementary, and middle school students and their parents across the country
Total Participating Families: 15 families, 30 participants