To mark Earth Day on Monday, stories about caring for the planet and making the right choices to protect it highlighted Saturday’s Inquirer Read-Along session that featured Miss Philippines-Earth 2013 candidates and Sophia School teachers as readers.
Guest readers regaled some 200 street children with stories about strong women leaders at a special Inquirer Read-Along session on Friday at the Tuloy sa Don Bosco Streetchildren Village in Alabang, Muntinlupa.
If it wasn’t for her love of reading, Miss Universe 2011 third runner-up Shamcey Supsup would not have achieved everything she has achieved so far: a Magna Cum Laude graduate from the University of the Philippines, an architecture licensure exam topnotcher, and a world-renowned beauty queen.
More than 800 students joined this year’s first Inquirer Read-Along session outside the newspaper’s offices on Friday at Calvario Elementary School in Meycauayan, Bulacan. It was one of the biggest Read-Along audiences since the program began in 2007.
THE Inquirer Read-Along program bagged another award at the 11th Philippine Quill Awards held at Crowne Plaza Galleria in Quezon City Monday night.
Girl power was alive and kicking at last Saturday’s Inquirer Read-Along session, which was held to mark the International Day of the Girl Child.
Two Saturday afternoons ago, I had the privilege of being part of the Inquirer Read-Along series with elementary-school children Cabancalan I Elementary School and Small Wonders Academic Center at the Banilad Town Center.
How better to cement Jesse Robredo’s legacy in Philippine history and society than to teach to the next generation his humility as a government official and his passion in serving the public.
THE COUNTRY’S rich marine biodiversity still awes Filipino-French Leucodia Angioyna Trotin. Learning from her father, Jacques, how to dive at an early age, Trotin got her first junior open water diver’s license when she was 9 years old.
Gone but not forgotten. The late Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo was the subject of Saturday morning’s special Inquirer Read-Along session held at the Ortigas Foundation library in Pasig City, where close to a hundred kids sat down to learn about the exemplary life of the admired public servant.
It took teacher Rosita Montajes a lot of courage to use a microphone in reading a story with illustrations flashed on a big screen. Montajes is a Mangyan of the subtribe Taubuhid. Montajes was substituting for a storyteller, an indigenous girl initially asked to join Inquirer’s Read-Along session that morning on August 25 but the [...]
Anybody can be a hero. Saturday afternoon’s Inquirer Read-Along emphasized this point as it featured a new generation of heroes who regaled over 50 children with stories about bravery and heroism.
In time for Nutrition Month, nearly a hundred kids were treated to yummy snacks and exciting stories during Saturday afternoon’s Inquirer Read-Along session at the Inquirer main office in Makati, which featured renowned cake decorator Penk Ching and Sophia School storytellers.
