Alma Flor Ada

Creative Reading DVD

DVD fea­tur­ing Alma Flor Ada

Cre­ative Read­ing, a method­ol­ogy devel­oped by Alma Flor Ada, is an essen­tial part of her vision of Trans­for­ma­tive Edu­ca­tion. In this DVD, she describes the prin­ci­ples of Cre­ative Read­ing, using as an exam­ple the Read­ing Pro­gram Hag­amos Caminos.

A class­room demostra­tion of Cre­ative Read­ing dia­logue is offered by Jan Mayer, an excel­lent edu­ca­tor and for­mer doc­toral stu­dent of Alma Flor.

Three songs are pre­sented by Suni Paz, out­stand­ing com­poser and singer, to rein­force the value of music within Trans­for­ma­tive Edu­ca­tion.

Suni Paz has col­lab­o­rated exten­sively with Alma Flor, cre­at­ing beau­ti­ful music for many of her poems. The pro­gram Música amiga offers 120 songs in ten CDs. Other record­ings by Suni include Gath­er­ing the Sun, ¡Pío Peep!, Abecedario, Coral y espuma, Cuén­tame un cuento, Tres prince­sas [ all of these pro­duced by Del Sol Pub­lish­ing] and Can­tarín [pro­duced by Frog Street].

The DVD also includes a brief pre­sen­ta­tion on poetry by Alma Flor Ada.