📚 Welcome to Story Time for Children of Color, a read aloud adventure for listening ears.📚 Theme: Red and yellow, black and white, all are precious in His sight
             Reading is colorblind, meant for all colors. ALL ARE WELCOME!

Story Time for Children of Color is a special time for children to hear stories read by a teacher who loves reading to children . . . of all ages and color. But this story time is designed so children of color can see characters of color in books that are read to them.

There's nothing like reading a good book or listening to a good story read to you. Can you imagine seeing someone who looks like you, looking like the kids in your class at school, the team sport you play on? Well, now learners can . . . that is, hear stories and see people who look like them and those around them when they come to "Story Time for Children of Color."

Every parent knows that reading to their child begins at an early age and helps to develop a love of reading, comprehension of the world around them through the stories read to them, develops vocabulary, improves language skills, reading fluency as they begin to read, better writing skills, focus, memory, creativity, imagination, critical thinking, empathy, social skills, and best of all excitement and fun with each story listened to!  

Learners who read diversely will more likely be accepting of those that are different from them, not to mention seeing themselves in stories, building their self-esteem.

No need to expand on so many more benefits. Come join us each week for this ongoing, read aloud Story Time for Children of Color today and watch your child relax, enjoy as learners listen and actively participate in this story time adventure. Learners will engage in each story, have social talk time where they discuss characters and tell how they feel about the story, discuss action and events, predict what might happen, chant, rhyme, move, and draw at times.

Reading is colorblind and meant for all colors. All are welcome.

Week of June 17th: 📚Say A Little Prayer by Dionne Warwick
Week of June 24th: 📚The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson
Week of July 1st: 📚It's OK to be Different by Sharon Purtill
Week of July 8th: 📚Eyes That Kiss in the Corners by Joanna Ho
Week of July 15th:📚Paletero Man /  !Que Paletero tan Cool!
Week of July 22nd:📚The Proudest Blue: A Story of Hijab and Family by Ibtihaj Muhammad
Week of July  29th: 📚Queen of the Scene by Queen Latifah
Week of August 5th: 📚Meera Makes Aloo Paratha: A Picture Book About Cooking Indian Food With Kids by Sangeetha Narayan
Week of August 12th: 📚Suki's Kimono by Chieri Uegaki
Week of August 19th: 📚The Year We Learned to Fly by Jacqueline Woodson
Week of August 26th: 📚I Promise by LeBron James
Week of September 2nd: 📚I Like Myself by Karen Beaumont
Week of September 9th: 📚Our Beautiful Color by Nikki Shannon Smith
Week of September 16th: 📚Black Boy, Black Boy Celebrate the Power of You by Ali Kamanda
Week of September 23rd: 📚Where Are You From? by Yamile Saied Mendez
Week of September 30th: 📚I Am Me by Tristan Towns and Lacey Howard
Week of October 7th: 📚My Nana and Me by Irene Smalls
Week of October 14th: 📚Gary and the Great Inventors by Akura Marshall
Week of October 21st: 📚Surrounded by Numbers by Latoshia Martin

*** Additional dates and books will continually be added 

Other Books for consideration:
📚Our Diversity Makes Us Stronger by Elizabeth Cole
📚Broken Crayons Still Color by Toni Collier
📚Pepe and the Parade by Tracey Kyle
📚Big (Caldecott Medal Winner & Coretta Scott King Honor Title) by Vashti Harrison

Reading is an adventure that never ends. Begin your learner's journey today here at Story Time for Children of Color.

SPECIAL NOTE TO PARENTS: To ensure each learner's success, please follow the guidelines below:  
○ Learner should be rested and ready to participate for the entire class time
○ Learner should go to the bathroom BEFORE class begins
○ Learner should be in a quiet, non-distracting place in order to enjoy the reading of the stories and interaction with their Teacher and other learners
○ Learner's camera and mic should be working 
○ Parents are encouraged to be present [but off camera] with younger learners to assist with learner attention/focus and any technical issues that may arise  
○ Along with reading, movement, singing, drawing, laughing, lots of fun and possible scavenger hunts, from time-to-time there will be counting, math too