Reading is an essential part of knowledge enrichment. The book club will encourage and motivate reading Tamil literature and story books that will help to develop students' knowledge of Tamil language, Fluent reading skill and culture.
Goal:
- Enjoy Tamil through reading and listening to Tamil stories
- Develop Tamil literary knowledge through discussion of several topics
Program detail:
- the club will meet monthly twice from 11:15 to 12.
- the club moderator will read a book and discuss the subject in Tamil (alternate weeks)
- Suggest a topic for the next meeting and encourage students to borrow books on that subject to read at home with parents if needed
- parents are welcome to the club to read with the kids - (alternate weeks) students will be given opportunity to come and tell all about the book he/she read the prior week. The format of the discussion would be as follows:
- name of the book
- what kind of book
- author
- what they like or don't like about the book
- they would recommend the book? why or why not?
Books:
- The books will include but not limited to
- stories by kids writers that enable critical thinking
- children's songs
- Tamil magazines:Chutti Vikatan, Thendral, SiruvarMani etc
- books written by great Tamil authors
- humorous books
- fairy tales
- Folklore stories - etc
ELL
Teaching Tamil language to children. Please contact for details.