How dysfunctional is your reading? Julie Myerson's new novel about her own family's schism is making headlines at the moment, but domestic traumas have always been a literary staple. Find out how messed up your reading habits are by taking this therapeutic quiz ... at the guardian
Between 2005 and 2007, author James Patterson gave away more than $600,000 to promote literacy through his annual PageTurner Awards. But when he noticed that his own elementary school-age son had become a reluctant reader, he decided that there had to be another way to get children excited about reading.
October marked the soft launch of his newest PageTurner project, ReadKiddoRead.com, which replaces the awards. By December, with almost no fanfare except for a mention in an interview with Al Roker and an ad in People magazine, the site attracted 20,000 visitors. It brings together reviews for books for newborns to teens, interviews with bestselling children’s authors like Jeff Kinney and Rick Riordan, and a book blog with reading lists by children’s literature consultant Judy Freeman, author of Books Kids Will Sit Still For.
In the modern age of information, reading truly is a fundamental survival skill. Here are ten tips that anyone can use to improve their reading skills: http://adjix.com/6tnr
Reading isn’t just for girls. It’s cool. It’s very cool. In fact, at Spring Lake Park High School in Minnesota, all the boys know that real men read.
It’s hard to miss this slogan while walking through the school’s hallways. There you’ll find 35 large posters of men enjoying a good read. And these role models aren’t celebrities or authors—they’re real men who the students encounter every day. more » » »
[Via Children's Bookshelf]
Earlier this month, the King's English Bookshop in Salt Lake City hosted an eight-hour reading marathon to raise money for Book Wagon, a charity that provides children living in local housing projects with books. Throughout the day, 10 young readers in first through fifth grade sprawled out in the bookstore aisles and read books, raising $650 in book and money donations for the charity in the process (the read-a-thon had a $20 entry fee, and several kids raised more than that). The participants also received some reading prizes, including "Most Trivia Questions Answered," "Most Money Raised" and "Most Pages Read."
Celebrating Talk Like a Pirate Day - 19th September?
Try these resources
Try these resources
– List of pirate books for kids
– Fiction activities for books about pirates
Try some of these resources ...
-- More about Roald Dahl
-- Lesson plans for specific books
-- Ideas for teachers
Click here - for some great ideas for your class.-- Worksheets for Younger children
Click here for six worksheets to print out for 5-7 year-olds.-- Worksheets for Older children
Click here for eight worksheets to print out for 8-12 year-olds.
The International Reading Association provides online resources for use in the home or the classroom, to encourage reading and develop literacy skills. Created and collected by experienced educators (or, in the case of Choices booklists, by experienced kids) they're designed to make your teaching task a little easier and a lot more effective. The detailed, research-based lesson plans and activities are available from Kindergarten up to year 12.
Listen to Charlotte's Web. Hear E.B. White read from his book, virtually visit his farm (in the “Down East” part of Maine) and watch a spider, like Charlotte, spin a web. Also learn how she catches (and eats) food, observe how she lays eggs and find out how her wingless babies (called spiderlings) can “fly” (or “balloon”) from the place where they were hatched. http://www.awesomestories.com/site_map