Supporting Literacy in the Classroom: Making books about everything with practically nothing
Course Code: 26FBB110V
This virtual workshop takes place on Zoom on Saturday, October 17th, from 1PM to 3PM ET.
- Saturday, October 17th, from 1PM to 3PM ET
Please Note: Registration for this workshop closes on October 4th, at 11:59 pm.
About the Workshop:
This virtual workshop is taught by CBA instructor Paula Beardell Krieg.
Creating a culture of book making in the classroom can be done with available materials and minimal to zero prep time. There is no question that children are motivated by making something that feels real, and which they can fill with their own drawings and writing. The small books, which students can fill with classroom content and personal content will turn sheets of paper into keepsakes.
Required Materials:
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Teachers should bring along the kinds of paper available to them in their classrooms. Most demonstrations will be done using standard copy paper and composition paper.
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Commercial (junk mail) catalogue if one is handy.
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Scissors
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Pencil
Optional Materials
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Glue sticks
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Stapler
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Brads
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Rubber bands
About the Instructor
Paula Krieg (she/her) has been a paper enthusiast for as long as she can remember, taking particular delight in 3D paper transformations.
For thirty years she collaborated with teachers to design projects for the classroom, pioneering methods of accessible ways to teach book arts.
Since 2009 she has been writing about playful bookbinding and paper works on her Bookzoompa blog.
Krieg regularly shows work in Bridges Math/Art exhibitions.
She has taught workshops at the Center for Book Arts, Museum of Mathematics, Cooper Hewitt Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Dieu Donne.
She has presented at various conferences, including MOVES 2019: Math Unfolded: The Mathematical Art of Origami.
Her work has been featured in Jean-Charles Trebbi’s L’art du Livre Origami, Helen Hiebert’s book, Paper Illuminated, Lark Books’s Making Books and Journals, and Diane Mauer-Mathison’s The Art and Craft of Handmade Cards.
Krieg coauthored Scholastic’s 25 Totally Terrific Social Studies Activities alongside Jean Mumper and Kathy Pike.
All images courtesy of the instructor.