ENSURING CHILDREN WILL BE LITERATE IN A FUN, CREATIVE WAY
- IT STARTS VERY YOUNG!

I teach educators and parents how to use simple performance techniques and creativity to foster early literacy, and a love of reading for children before they start school.

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“Children are made readers on the laps of their parents, teachers, counselors -- anyone who will read to them when they are very young.

Reading to young children can be fun and fulfilling -- the 2 new F words. Children who are read to in their early years do better in school and in life. When parents, guardians, caregivers and educators make reading to children a priority, they give children a head start in their lives. Sometimes the adults don't know fun techniques to bring books to life, the very things that will make it fun and fulfilling for everyone. Elyse Van Breemen is here to change that!

As a lifelong performer, writer, and entertainer for children, Elyse Van Breemen teaches adults how to make stories come alive with simple techniques and props that anyone can use. As the well-loved performer Mz. Goose, the Modern Day Mother Goose, Van Breemen is now sharing simple and fun ways adults can turn read aloud into shared moments that both adults and children love. Audiences are entertained and walk away equipped with voice and performance techniques that they can start using immediately.

About Elyse, Public Speaker

Elyse Aronson Van Breemen is the name on her driver's license. But she has been known and loved by children for decades as Mz. Goose, the Modern Day Mother Goose. In 1981 she became a successful writer and performer for children - bringing literacy to life on radio, on TV, and performing twice at the White House for Easter. With a lifelong career in the Arts, she brings together her background as an actress with her college major in Speech and Theatre in College. She was raised to believe that we should make a better world, create a renaissance. Her WHY as a public speaker is to do just that - make the audience in front of her leave with a way to make their lives and the world better, by improving literacy. So interested she was in improving literacy in the world that she wrote a Beginning Reader and loves sharing her love of literacy. Part of the unique experience she creates from audiences stems from encompassing the whole space so she can BE the audience. Creating memorable moments from the stage is her passion.

Talk Title #1

READ TO BABIES AND TODDLERS, THEY'LL BE READERS WHEN GROWN.

Literacy is a problem today. 67% of 4th graders aren't proficient in reading. And 37% can't even read at a basic level! Result? 2/3 of students not proficient in reading by the end of 4th grade will end up in jail or on welfare.

Children are made readers on the laps of their parents who or whoever reads to them. The National Commission on Reading has said that reading to children prior to school is the most significant factor influencing early educational success. Elyse Van Breemen, also known as writer, performer, Mz Goose,the Modern Day Mother Goose, who has been on television, been to the White House for Easter, and has written a beginning reader will tell you how to make reading to children, not a chore, but fun! In her talk, she gives examples, and lets you participate, showing how this will be fun, fun and fulfilling, not just for the child, but for you, too!

Talk Title #2

ILLITERATES FAIL, LOTS GO TO JAIL. CHILDREN READ TO BEFORE SCHOOL WILL BE LITERATE AND PREVAIL!

Elyse Van Breemen, also known as writer, performer, Mz Goose,the Modern Day Mother Goose, who has been on television, been to the White House for Easter, and has written a beginning reader will tell you how to make reading to children, not a chore, but fun! In her talk, she gives examples, and lets you participate, showing how this will be fun, fun and fulfilling, not just for the child, but for you, too!

67% of 4th graders aren't proficient in reading and 2/3 of them will end up on welfare or in jail.You don't want this to happen to children you know and you can do something about it. Mother, father, sister, brother, teacher, preacher, beseacher, seeker, you can all read to children before they go to school. Would you believe that you can read to a baby? Oh, they love pictures, they love the sound of your voice. The National Commission on Reading as well as your speaker, Elyse Van Breemen, knows that reading to children makes them love books, helps them develop vocabulary, and makes it easier for them to learn to read. She knows and shows how to make it fun. In fact, her talk will be fun. You'll be given examples and have chances to participate. You can sit on a rug, give a child a hug and read to him or her. You'll have a warmer relationship with the child you read to and you'll be happier to know that they will do better in school and in life because of you. Reading to children is a wonderful thing to do and Elyse has ways to make it even more wonderful!

Talk Title #3

WELFARE OR WELL BEING – READING TO YOUNG CHILDREN AFFECTS FUTURES

Reading to young children will affect their future, they'll read better, be more literate and they'll survive better. I'm sure you want that to happen.

You should! Because today there is a problem about literacy with 67% of 4th graders not being proficient in reading! That's more than half! And worse: a high percentage of them will end up on welfare! For the children you love, you want their futures filled with happiness, success, prosperity, and worth.

Reading to young children affects their futures! And today Elyse Van Breemen will show you how to make that activity not a chore, but an exciting and rewarding time. She's also a writer and performer, known as Mz Goose, the Modern Day Mother Goose, has been on radio, television and done puppet storytelling at the White House for Easter. She's recently written a beginning reader for young children and she can't wait to show you how to make reading to young children one of the best parts of your life!

Testimonial

I have known Elyse for over 30 years. I first met her when she traveled as a Mz Goose entertainer back in the late eighties and stayed at my home in Baton Rouge. She is not just a great public speaker, and an entertaining one at that, she is a good poet and musician. I played piano at several events while she played cello as a kind of duet. I am so happy that she is using these rare talents to help parents and educators read to children in a way that makes them love reading and promotes literacy.

L D Sledge, writer, speaker, musician, artist, patriot, veteran