The Read Aloud program

Learning to Read

Headstart to Reading

Hindi Reading Fluency

English Reading Fluency

The Read Aloud Program

Reading aloud is one of the most effective ways to encourage reading and thinking. There are as many ways to read aloud as there are books and readers, but we’ve developed some good bilingual resources on how to do this effectively, depending on your goals.

Headstart To Reading

How do people fall in love with books? Is it a natural, inherent trait? Or something that needs to be nurtured carefully? At Headstart To Reading, which is the Community Library Project's programme for four to six-year-olds, we try to answer this question every Saturday morning.

Hindi Reading Fluency

We have found that many of our members can read words, but do so very slowly. We’ve developed ways to help build reading fluency. Several of the practices we used could be easily adapted for use in schools, even ones with poor teacher:student ratios. They are easy to implement for teachers, research-proven, and all it requires is time, books and commitment.

Our curriculum is open source. All are welcome to use, adapt and share any resources found here. We would love the acknowledgement if you use it, but all resources are free of cost.

Other Programs

The Visiting Author Program - Sahitya Sabka, Duniya Sabki is the visiting author/artist program which involves writers, poets, and artists presenting their work to a packed audience of adult and upper-group members right here at TCLP. Poetry readings by Mangalesh Dabral and Akhil Katyal, for instance, saw participation by both first-time visitors and seasoned library members.

Making such cultural events possible in the community is an important part of our work, and resonates strongly with our aim to create accessible spaces of engagement with art and literature. The name "Sahitya Sabka, Duniya Sabki" imagines just that: a world where literature is the estate of not only a few people, but is written for, by, and about all of us.

We regularly host these programs at both our libraries.