More Than A Literary Festival

Let’s Read

Let’s Read

Let’s Read

Presenter

Suzette Cadiz has been an educator for 39  years. She opened and operated a Montessori school in the 1970s after graduating from the Association Montessori Internationale London, and then went on to teach for over two decades at a primary school. In 2010, she co-founded Let’s Read, and continues to advocate for increased literacy throughout Trinidad and Tobago.

Alison de la Bastide has been a passionate educator for 31 years. She has taught at the preschool and primary school level in T&T and abroad. Presently, besides her work with Let’s Read, Alison facilitates teacher education workshops and is a volunteer coordinator at a Servol Junior Life Centre where she works with students 12 to 16 years old, to strengthen their literacy skills.

10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Children's Library, Storytelling Room, NALIS

Family Reading Circle - Festival Edition

Join us for a day of interactive reading in partnership with Let’s Read TT, where stories come to life for children, fostering a lifelong passion for reading while enhancing essential language, comprehension, and emotional skills, offering valuable tips for parents on how to make reading aloud a joyful experience at home. Children's writers will be present to do read aloud sessions including: Luna's Rainbow Day: A Story for Toddlers by Lisa-Marie Foster, Malaika, Carnival Queen by Nadia L. Hohn, The Adventures of Heidi The Boxer Pup! by Vic Susanna Surajdeen, Nayeli and Friends Adventures by Shinade Martin and others.

Join us for a day of interactive reading in partnership with Let’s Read TT, where stories come to life for children, fostering a lifelong passion for reading while enhancing essential language, comprehension, and emotional skills, offering valuable tips for parents on how to make reading aloud a joyful experience at home. Children's writers will be present to do read aloud sessions including: Luna's Rainbow Day: A Story for Toddlers by Lisa-Marie Foster, Malaika, Carnival Queen by Nadia L. Hohn, The Adventures of Heidi The Boxer Pup! by Vic Susanna Surajdeen, Nayeli and Friends Adventures by Shinade Martin and others.

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