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Book clubs play a crucial role in enabling conversations of different kinds!
Children's literature is an exciting space to be in today. So many wonderful authors writing amazing stories based on current matters to...

TalkingCircles
3 days ago3 min read
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Critical Thinking, Collaborative Writing & Role Play
Children love playing games with role play. Extending that joy to collaborative writing and teamwork @ The Young Writers' Club (Jr.) It...

TalkingCircles
Apr 223 min read
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The Hidden Power of Community in Children's Book Clubs: Unleashing the Potential of Young Readers
In a world filled with screens and digital distractions, nurturing a love for reading among children has grown crucial. Children's book...

TalkingCircles
Apr 165 min read
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Relax with a book and learn the art of being patient as a bonus!
If your child is a reader, he or she knows that feeling of satisfaction after having read a good book. A good book may take days to...

TalkingCircles
Apr 123 min read
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Cartoon Analysis - A fine way to enable Teenagers to engage with current affairs.
Cartoon analysis is a staple component for teenagers across curriculums and with good reason. It enables critical thinking and keen...

TalkingCircles
Apr 84 min read
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Understanding Pre-Teen Preferences: The Percy Jackson Divide
Percy Jackson is hugely popular in the pre-teen group. But my child doesn't fancy it. Are we missing something?

TalkingCircles
Apr 13 min read
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The One Feature of Book Clubs that Drives Away Children!
Summer holidays. Best time. Exams are over. A month or more of happy time, fun and frolic, playtime with friends. Bliss. Enter Book Club...

TalkingCircles
Mar 264 min read
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The Boy At the Top of The Mountain
A young adult fiction that is important for any impressionable mind to read- to know how easy it is to get carried away by a notion,...

TalkingCircles
Mar 184 min read
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Reflecting on Five Years of Talking Circles: A Journey of Impact and Connection
Lakshmi Mitter, the founder of Talking Circles reflects...

TalkingCircles
Mar 136 min read
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Uncovering the Power of Children's Book Clubs: Creating Collaborative Learning Experiences
Reading is often seen as a solitary activity, but it can be much more enjoyable when shared. For kids, engaging with friends while...

TalkingCircles
Mar 53 min read
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Which is the Better Choice: Plastic Straws, Paper Straws, or Something Else?
If you were part of a team running a roadside cafe and you had to make this choice, which one would you pick? That's the decision the...

TalkingCircles
Mar 32 min read
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When a Book Club Encourages Readers To Look Beyond The Story...
Did you observe the setting in the book? What role did it play in the book? When a book is good, it is so easy to get carried away with...

TalkingCircles
Feb 254 min read
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How To Enhance the Efficacy of Character Sketch As a Tool to Enable Critical Thinking?
Character Sketch/Analysis in its very essence strives to enable the reader to be able to collect information/evidence about a given...

TalkingCircles
Feb 173 min read
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Talking With Savie Karnel at the Young Readers' Club
Ever since the books 'The Nameless God' and 'Laxmi Panda, Netaji's Youngest Spy' appeared in our conversations at the Young Readers'...

TalkingCircles
Feb 107 min read
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Reading @ Book Clubs and The Magic of Collaborative Learning
There is a lot of magic that happens when a sense of camaraderie sets in. Talking Circles came into existence with the objective of...

lakshmimitter
Jan 314 min read
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Laxmi Panda, Netaji's Youngest Spy
Savie Karnel's second book- an inspiring story of grit, determination and courage. Source: Amazon Having read her first book, The...

TalkingCircles
Jan 282 min read
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Should Shoppers Pay For Carry Bags?
The teens @ the Young Writers' Club, had an interesting case to consider. A consumer suit against BATA, a popular shoe company in India....

TalkingCircles
Jan 285 min read
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Is Starbucks' decision to reverse its free restroom use policy, justified?
Debate at the Young Writers' Club that led the teens to explore social aspects, government's responsibility to provide public restrooms,...

TalkingCircles
Jan 224 min read
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On Our Way To The "Readers' Cuisine" :)
What began as a vocabulary building activity led to the creation of an imaginary restaurant! Imagination is more important than...

TalkingCircles
Jan 162 min read
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Writing Programs for Children
Regular practice is the key to honing one's writing skills. Making time for it and being disciplined about it is a hard task. Worse,...

TalkingCircles
Jan 91 min read
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