REPORT ON WORLD READ
ALOUD DAY ON WEDNESDAY 4TH MARCH
2015, AT DOMEABRA
World Read Aloud Day is a day celebrated to motivate
children, teens and adult worldwide to know the power of words and create a
community of readers taking action to show the world that the rights to
literacy belongs to all people. By reading aloud, this day shows and motivates
children to know that they have the right to read, write and share their story.
Solutions for life Initiative Ghana celebrated this day with
the Domeabra change makers Club in the Ashanti Region. Among the various literature
to be read aloud this day, the poems “Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou and “Kindness”
by Naomi Nye were selected. As part of our goal to inspire young ladies and
empower them, the poem by Maya Angelou “Still I Rise” which focuses on
self-esteem and rising to achieve your goal despite the challenges and
difficulties faced in life, rising to the top despite your background was chosen
to motivate and empower these young ladies to focus on their strength and work
towards their aspiration.
The poem Kindness by Naomi Nye which focuses on the power of
kindness and experience in life also teaches these young ladies to be kind to
others and know that the experience they go through in life either good or bad
will shape their life and become self-motivated people in life, helping society
and their nation as a whole
The program began around three 3:45 Pm with lesson on how to
open and find meanings of words in the dictionary. The ladies were asked to
find some meaning of words in the dictionary which they suggested
themselves. The Literature Specialist
Gideon KwabenaYeboah explained to them that, to find meaning of words in the
dictionary you have to know your alphabet well and also know how to spell the
word you want to find in the dictionary. The meaning of some words were found in
the dictionary and some ladies were asked to form sentences with those words,
which was interesting. They were able to learn new words and expand their
vocabulary.
The ladies were asked to read the poem “Still I Rise” by
Maya Angelou in silence and underline the words they did not understand. They
were then asked to read the poem aloud stanza by stanza. The poem was explained
to them that, they should rise to achieve their aims and goals despite the
challenge they face in life and also not to look down on themselves even though
their background is poor, they should have self-esteem and confidence wherever
they find themselves.
Likewise the poem “Kindness” was read in silence and the
difficult words were underlined, the ladies were then asked to read the poem
aloud, and was explained to them by Gideon KwabenaYeboah that, they should be
kind to people and appreciate every experience they go through in life.
The meanings of the underlined words in the two poems were
looked for in the dictionary and again some of the ladies were asked to form
sentences with those words. Some literary words which the ladies came across in
the poems like simile, Metaphor, Imagery, hyperbole were all explained to them
and they were encouraged to continue reading more story books and poems, look
for words whose meaning they find difficult in the dictionary in order to give
them a life of hope, independent and joy.
The programme was well attended, a success and interesting,
