STORY SHARES TESTIMONIALS
STORY SHARES TESTIMONIALS Story Shares has had some inspiring success already, and we are excited to continue building on this as we evolve our literacy platform and initiative. During the first phase,...
View Article5 New Story Shares Features To Enhance Your Reading Experience
5 New Story Shares Features To Enhance Your Reading Experience Our digital library of free stories was relaunched in May, with a new and improved design. With hundreds of teachers and thousands of...
View Article5 Stories That Will Inspire A Love Of Reading In Your Middle Schooler
5 Stories That Will Inspire A Love Of Reading In Your Middle Schooler For teens who struggle with reading, keeping up with reading practice over the summer vacation can feel like a chore. The following...
View ArticleStory Shares Executive Director Named To International Literacy Association’s...
We are thrilled to share with you that Story Shares's very own Executive Director, Louise Baigelman, has been recognized as one of International Literacy Association's 30 Under 30 for her outstanding...
View ArticleStories Make Us Strong
Allow us to introduce ourselves. We are LitWorld and Story Share, two organizations who are coming together to spread joy and hope through literacy. At LitWorld, our mission is to empower young people...
View ArticleExemplar Stories for the Relevant Reads Collection
Looking for some inspiration? These are some of the most popular stories in the Story Shares collection! Jacob and the Bee Man By Kelly Winters Jacob is on a tough path in life. When he commits a...
View Article6 Inspiring Stories About Confidence For The New School Year
We’ve teamed up with LitWorld to create the 7 Strengths blog series that is all about using the power of stories to help you learn about things, to find your way, to find yourself, to change the...
View ArticleBrother No More: Story Shares Literacy Project
Written by Lori Schafer [Input by Priya Minhas] http://www.storyshares.org/books/view/535 What an amazing, fantastic, wonderful idea! This was my first thought when I heard about the Story Share...
View ArticleGrand Prize for Story of the Year Contest: CELEBRATE DIVERSITY AWARD
At Story Shares, it’s no secret that our mission is to create ‘relevant and engaging’ content for students in middle and high school who read below grade level. Often, the approach to reading...
View ArticleTips from Writers on Overcoming Writer’s Block
Tips from Writers on Overcoming Writer's Block By Marcelle Hutchins For some writers, one of the scariest moments of writing is starting the first sentence. Writing the first part can be tricky,...
View ArticleStory Shares on Kickstarter: Crowdfunding for a Literacy Solution
Story Shares began as a literacy project – an experiment, of sorts. Could we expand the collection of content meant for teens and young adults who read below grade level? To test this, we launched a...
View ArticleImagine Not Being Able to Read This….
Imagine Not Being Able to Read This… By Louise Baigelman Imagine moving to a new country. You have only just begun speaking the language and you have a lot left to learn. You have basic language...
View Article5 Stories to Inspire Hope this Holiday Season
5 Stories to Inspire Hope this Holiday Season By Angela Dell'Isola It’s a word you hear often throughout the holiday season, spoken in conversation, sung in choruses, and written in glittery font...
View ArticleWINNERS of the 2015 Relevant Reads Story of the Year Contest
We are pleased to announce that our second annual writing contest was a tremendous success! Our goal was to expand our collection of Relevant Reads: stories that are Easy to Read, but Hard to Put Down....
View Article5 Stories to Inspire Courage Through the New Year
Belonging. Friendship. Kindness. Confidence. Curiosity. Hope. These are six of the seven strengths that our partners at LitWorld emphasize as necessary ingredients for a healthy and satisfying life....
View ArticleFeature Author: Kelly Winters
For this week's Writer Wednesday, we interviewed Kelly Winters, author of "Darius Quinton Coleman, Boy Genius," "Jacob's Trouble," and one of our most popular stories, "Jacob and the Bee Man." Read on...
View ArticleWriter Wednesday: Featuring Joe Novara
This week's Writer Wednesday features Joe Novara, author of the My First Horse Series, City Food/Country Food, Quiet Game, Patchooky, and Help for the Humor deprived. Besides the Story Shares library,...
View Article5 Stories on the Power of Friendship
Together with kindness, confidence, curiosity, hope, belonging, and courage, friendship has a tremendous impact on the quality of one’s daily living. Cumulatively, these values comprise the 7...
View ArticleWriter Wednesday Feature: Angela Dell’Isola
For this week's Writer Wednesday Feature, we interviewed Angela Dell'Isola, author of "Leap of Faith," and our organization's Outreach and Content Manager. Angela is a fantasy writer who has seen the...
View ArticleWriter Wednesday Feature: Jean Ciborowski Fahey, PhD
For this week's Writer Wednesday feature, we were fortunate enough to interview Jean Ciborowski Fahey, author, editor, and consultant for early/family literacy. Her book, "Make Time for Reading," is...
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