- Author visit
- "Virtual" author visit using Skype
- Reading "challenge" - classroom v classroom or school wide
- Class newsletter with student book reviews
- Class wiki where students post book review
- Book club during lunch time
- Art contest - students create posters for their favorite books
- Poetry jam for Black History Month
- Place coupons in random fiction titles with questions and small prizes
- Books and Breakfast
- Weekly specials board (like in a restaurant) 5 great books of the week
- A Shot at Reading - photo contest with pictures of students reading in a unique or funny place, winners made into Read posters
- Leave Your Mark - student created bookmarks
- Write a grant to get e-readers for library
- Genrepalooza
- "Web of books" made with masking tape - inside circle popular titles, working out to classic works
- Celebrate banned books week with paper chains made with titles, authors and cited reasons for books being banned
- Stop Whining Start a Revolution - book discussions of books where young people try to affect social change
- Match popular songs with books (e.g. Lady Gaga's Born This Way and Almost Perfect or The Earth, My Butt and Other Big Round Things)
- Promote books made into movies
- Teachers post outside their door what they are currently reading
- Hallway and library charts of what students are reading
- Lunch book club
- All school reading time
- Dress as literacy character
- Reading a chapter of a couple of different books on an e-reader
- Mock Printz Award
- Wicked Good book cart (nominated by students) and Book Hall of Fame
- Meet Your Reader - interview randomly selected students and a teacher. Photograph them reading their favorite book
- Books with Bite - displays, Friday night Halloween event to share creepy stories*
- Get Your Draw On - anime and manga drawing contest*
- Books That Make You LOL*
- If You Like This - display*
- Books With Beat - poetry contest*
Monday, June 6, 2011
Celebrate Reading
I promised to share with you the reading encouragement ideas from your projects. There are some great ideas here, you may want to copy it for future reference. Remember: A library needs to be a happening place. Here (in no particular order) are the programming ideas from EDT763 spring 2011:
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