Literacy (BGB)

Dear Guest,

Below are sample aspects of the Stealth Literacy Campaign prepared for Big Guy Books.   If you are interested in the concepts please contact me for an introduction to the founder.   Hopefully, there may be ideas there that could support your interests and outer life purpose.  Enjoy

The sub-directory “Big Guy Books Business Model is password protected components of the business plan prepared for Big Guy Books.  If after checking the website out http://www.bigguybooks.com/big-guy-books/about-us.htm  you are interested in more information on supporting the project please contact me for an introduction to the the founder.  The current interactive media website is www.greatbooksforboys.com “Visit our website to discover a new movie-style genre of books for boys…the Time Soldiers series. They are a virtual cure for the reluctant reader!”

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Draft Updated 11/23/07

 

Stealth Literacy Campaign Goals

The Secret Strategy to Engaging Young Minds

Literacy and Family Bonds – Intertwined Challenges of the Digital Age,

Interwoven Strategies for Empowering Children’s Self-Mastery in a New Era

 1. Reverse the Accelerating Problem of Boys’      Literacy Resistance

Create new engaging reading materials and learning methods for the 21st century digital age child by:

  • Further understanding boys’ and girls’ distinctly different and shared learning modalities
  • Guiding a positive shift in boys’ reading attitude & aptitude

 2. Develop Stealth Learning Resources for the Reluctant Reader

Create products, programs and services to excite new readers and to involve young readers through covert learning methods:

  • Financial Literacy – Learning about Money:“Lemonade Stand Economics”
  • Food & Nutritional Literacy (Stealth Health)–Cooking Up Something Fun:“Being Healthy is Cool”

 3. Facilitate New Readers to Explore & Express their Full Potential

Create books, CDs, video games, board games, etc. that assist young readers continuing to expand their:

  • Self esteem and EQ (Emotional Intelligence)
  • Imagination and, Creativity (Right Brain)
  • Innate Ingenuity and Analytical Problem Solving (Left Brain)

 4. Overcome Impact of Literacy Issues for Poor      and Minorities

Create learning products and reading programs that enfranchise and empower the disadvantaged by:

  • Publicizing and providing stealth learning materials
  • Including our programs in youth organizations: Boys & Girls Club, YMCA, Head Start…
  • Reaching parents through institutions: schools, churches, government agencies…
  • Using our new graphics technology to support adult literacy

 5. Support Family Togetherness through Reading      & Covert Learning Projects

Create resources for family fun, parenting bonds, especially father and son time through projects they read, learn and do together:

  • Reading to children, perusing picture books, playing learning games …
  • Parent and child stealth learning projects from building a bird house to having a garage sale or planning a birthday party.

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Mission & Vision


 

Big Guy Books is based on –

Stealth Literacy®, a concept rooted in the idea that kids who discover reading is fun will become self-propelled readers. For reading to become more fun (especially for the average young male reader), it must be more engaging. Today’s kids require more visual stimulation to hold their interest than any generation before them. High interest digital graphics are a key factor in capturing and maintaining the interest of young readers.  Big Guy Books’ Time Soldiers® series is specifically designed to stimulate more of the brain by adding realistic and complex graphics to an ongoing mystery that deepens book by book.

 

“Big Guy Books, Inc., is built on the belief that literacy is a birthright for every child.  In a world of highly visual, fast-paced video entertainment, we are losing a generation of young children to growing masses of reluctant readers.” Robert Gould

 

Mission

It is our mission to create books that are stimulating and engaging enough to recapture children, and instill in them the joy of reading and the thrill of learning.

 

Vision

The vision of Big Guy Books is to facilitate a quantum shift in the way reading and learning for children are approached.  Engaging the left and right brain while having fun, especially for boys, is our intent, first at home and then at school.  Our vision affirms that we can help avoid the growing struggle with learning, and continue seeing a shift in classrooms that utilize our principles and products.

We are engendering classrooms that are far more engaging and far less disruptive; classrooms where there is great new hope for learning and attracting gifted teachers.

 

We want to help inaugurate a dramatic ripple effect beginning with building self esteem and radiating out through society, reducing self-destructive and anti-social behavior.  Our intent is to utilize our compelling reading material to support children’s involvement in reading, learning, family projects, and in turn, contributing at an early age to the society they shall eventually lead.

 

Our vision is that we can enhance child development from early parental bonding to accelerated learning and emotional intelligence.  The engaging stories will continue to support positive qualities and build character. Stealth Literacy becomes stealth learning and growth. 

 

Our vision is that every household, in an array of cultures and socio-economic communities,  are touched by these imperative possibilities.  We will take a lead role in developing this new media and to create literacy as the foundation of every home.

There’s no better gift you can give than literacy, especially when offered with parental love.

 

“High quality adventure stories for children combine cutting edge graphics and old fashioned values to increase literacy as well as confidence and self esteem of young readers.” Literary Market Place