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Read Across America

Hey Guys,

I am new to the middle school world and have been invited by another teacher to put on an after school event for our afterschool club kids. I was wondering what sort of events you have hosted for National Read Across America day in your schools or would like to do?

Please let me know any ideas and suggestions!!

Thanks

*also is it appropriate to incorporate Dr Seuss with this level- would the students respond to that as they do with elementary?!?

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Permalink Reply by Karenjoy113 on February 18, 2010 at 11:59am

I'm having an anime convention after school. We will screen episodes of popular series, have a manga illustrator demonstrate character creation (via Skype) and have students browse and recommend new manga titles. The manga distribution/publishing company, Funimation, grants screening permissions to small clubs based on individual requests.

During the day, we're having a Book Bling event where students wear a name tag all day long with a favorite book on it. They are encouraged to spend time talking about their book and if observed doing so, they receive "bling" (aka Mardi Gras beads). This is an event started by a past librarian - the kids love to collect the beads throughout the day.

I don't think my students would get too excited about Dr. Seuss. We celebrate the day, but don't make any direct Dr. Seuss connections. However, I'm sure there are some creative ways to squeeze him in there! :)

Hope you get lots of suggestions. I'm excited to discover some new programming ideas.

Permalink Reply by Kathleen Reeves on July 17, 2010 at 11:03am

Last year, we invited guest readers to come to each ELA classroom to read from their favorite book or they could read one of Neal Shusterman's short stories (he was our guest author last year). We had 30 different sections so I had to create a chart scheduling everyone. I sent out e-mails to various community dignitaries and then I heavily recruited popular teachers and coaches on our campus. Our kids loved it...even big kids loved to be read to....by the way, this was the day before the writing TAKS test for our 7th graders. We called the event Chillax and Read, and they did. No mention of the test except get a good night's sleep.

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