Hello,
English is not my first language, please excuse my errors.
I have recently been appointed as the new head of a local library, and now have the power to execute events. I am thinking of starting a book club for the younger audience i.e. 10-14 year olds. The main problem is that the kids in my jurisdiction are very active and want movement (they are kinesthetic learners), they do not like to sit down and read and engage in conversations regarding books and characters. I was thinking of beginning with Short by Holly Goldenberg, it seems like a good place to start, however, I am unsure whether anyone would be interested. Are there any physical activities that I could include in the book club that would make the potential readers more interested? Keep in mind that the book club will be on weekends for 2 hours, so to manage a reading time then activity would be difficult of course, but where there is a will, there is a way!
by kvjbrtnvtch2
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I don’t know how practical this is, but you and the younger audience can act out chapters or scenes from the book. It allows you and the young ones to reflect and make a deeper impression on scenes and character development from what they’ve read rather than just gloss over some pages which you mentioned they might not be a big fan of.
And since the book club will meet for two hours, reward their time with one hour of physical activities or acting in a play (or anything else that might work for them related to books or stories you picked out for discussion). Basically one hour or so of book discussions, and if they do good and sit still within that period, then the rest of the time will be physical activities related to the book.
I remember in high school occasionally reading plays aloud by assigning casting to the students. You could consider something like that which might be beneficial. Of course, being from America, our source of plays was like exclusively Shakespeare; I don’t know what your culture might be fond on historically for plays.