Throughout
the year, the literacy team will be sponsoring and planning activities
for the students and adults at participating schools.
| Kick-Off |
Open
house for parents, teachers, and children.
Door prizes and gifts may be given. Parents and children read together.
New books are available for circulation.
Refreshments may be served! |
| Drawings |
Drawings
for door prizes may be held to celebrate the thematic units. |
| Chat
Room |
A
chat room has been set up on First Class, an electronic groupware
system, for the purpose of discussing reading. Specific themes,
books or authors may be discussed. Chats are monitored and guided.
chat rules & tips |
| Giveaways |
Stickers,
posters, bags, bookmarks, buttons and other little prizes are given
to every student throughout the school year. |
Download
membership cards, reading
certificates, certificates of honor
and reading logs for each thematic unit for students and parents:
Animals & Rodeo : students :
parents : Native Americans
: students : parents
: Sports : students : parents
: Thrills & Chills : students
: parents
We
have ordered incentives from Oriental
Trading Company and KRead.
We
also collect incentives wherever we go, mail them to schools with book
shipments, and distribute them whenever we visit schools. Incentives
we have given include:
"Alphie
the Bookworm" stuffed animal, pencils and posters : "Read
To Your Bunny" activity books : canvas book bags : Arthur, "Invent
the Future" and western theme book bags : "Invent the Future"
pins : Wishbone stuffed animals : plastic beach totes : foam dinosaur
visors : plastic dinosaur puzzles : glow-in-the-dark alien keychains
: "Is There and Alien in Your Classroom?" stickers : miscellaneous
stickers, pins, posters, bookmarks and postcards
Ideas
for other school activities:
- "Open
Mic" night featuring students reading their favorite short stories
and showing what they've created to illustrate their reading - perhaps
linked to thematic units
- lunchtime
book discussion group for teachers and other adults in the school
- children can be invited on special occasions
- scary
story contest, entries to be judged on idea development, organization
and appearance - prizes for scariest, most original and best illustrated
stories
- Reading
Tree with a leaf added for each book a student reads
- author/storyteller
visits
- career
day events with local colleges
- group
contribution to the cultural
exchange section of this website
- identify a "Reader of the Week" to publish a short piece
on his or her favorite book on the website
