| Reading
Thomas Jefferson claimed, "I cannot live without books." Nothing nourishes
imagination like reading. Check out the magic at your nearest school or
public library.
Sample some of the following activities to learn more about reading.
Places To Go | People
To See | Things To Do | Teacher
Resources | Bibliography
Places To Go
The following are places to go (some real and some virtual) to find out
about reading.
 Visit
your nearest public library and check out an armful of books.
International Reading
Association
Visit the International Reading Association. Become a member. They have
many ideas for classroom teachers as well as current research about effectively
teaching reading. Reading
Online is their online journal. UCIRA,
the Utah Council of the International Reading Assocation, has an annual
meeting that is usually held in February.
People To See
Paul Jennings
Get to know Paul Jennings. He writes some of the funniest and most unusual
short stories you will ever read. His books include Unreal!, Unbelievable!,
Uncanny!, Unseen!, and Undone!
 Trelease
on Reading
Visit with Jim Trelease. He is an expert on reading aloud to children.
Mother
Goose
Students can read Mother Goose tales themselves or use the audio version
and have it read to them. This is part of the Story
Hour portion of the Internet
Public Library.
Four
Blocks Literacy
Spend some time with Pat Cunningham. She is an expert on Four Blocks Literacy.
Read tips from other teachers on how they implement this model in their classrooms.
See how this school district in Illinois uses Four
Blocks Literacy.
Things To Do
 The
Read In
Take part in this annual reading event. It is held every year in the spring
and features collaborative reading projects among school throughout the
United States and great author chats where students can converse online
with their favorite authors. You can also read pdf files of past author
chats.
America
Reads
Participate in this national programming promoting literacy. Teachers
can get free Read*Write*Now! posters.
Merpy
Read online adventures at Merpy, a site that features animated and musical
interactive adventures that change on a monthly basis. Children can read
past adventures as well, and there is even a Spanish language version.
Candlelight
Stories
Read stories online or listen to audio tales.
 Reading Rainbow
Click on the "Teachers" tab from the menu to find activities and curriculum
ideas for the daily airings of Reading Rainbow. This is a fabulous resource
for teachers.
ESL
Quiz Center
The purpose of this site is to provide language help for ESL students.
However, have students take the many online multiple-choice quizzes for
reading comprehension practice.
 Book
Adventure
The goal of this site is to encourage children to read. By registering
at this site, students can win prizes by reading books and answering questions.
Teachers or parents would need to monitor the online account of the student.
There are over 3000 books on this site to choose from.
Katie
Did and the Neon Peach
Introduce this collection of original stories, artwork, rhyming stories,
and puzzles to students. There are many pages that you can download to
color, even one featuring the American Sign Language alphabet.
Dime
Novels
During the last half of the 19th century, dime novels were very popular
reading in the United States. They were usually about high interest kinds
of people and were written quickly for mass production and mass consumption.
Read some samplings from these old dime novels. Read about Buffalo Bill.
His career was made and sustained by the dime novel. Read about Ragged
Dick, Jesse James, California Joe, Frank Merriwell, and Nick Carter and
get a feel for what this very popular genre was like.
 Children's
Storybooks Online
Choose stories to read at levels from kindergarten to young adult.
Ace on the Case
Teach students to solve crimes through reading clues at this curriculum-based
adventure story. Students assume the identity of Ace, a private investigator,
to explore the unusual behaviors behind some killer whales. To move through
the story, explorers must complete certain education-based tasks that
are related to oceanography.
SwissEduc
Reading List for Class Use
Secondary teachers: find lists of commonly read books. The books include
include lesson plans, discussion groups, and curricular ideas.
 Parents
and Children Together Online
Promote family literacy.
Invisible Ink
Read online ghost and goblin tales.
Bab Books
: Online Stories for Kids
Have students select from a dozen online stories to read.
Teacher Resources
Hotlists from UEN provide internet sites to
visit to find out more about specific topics--in this case, reading! (You
can learn how to use this WWW Activities tool created by UEN for Utah educators).
Online activities are a listing of internet
sites with fun, interesting, and educational tasks attached to each one.
(You can learn how to use this WWW
Activities tool created by UEN for Utah educators).
Virtual Field Trips are teacher and student-created
tours of curricular topics. (You can learn how to use this UEN Virtual
Field Trip tool created by UEN for Utah educators).
Bibliography
- Leonhardt, Mary. 99 Ways To Get Kids To Love Reading and One Hundred
Books They'll Love. New York : Crown Trade Paperbacks, 1997.
- Trelease, Jim. The Read Aloud Handbook. New York : Penguin Books.
- Trelease, Jim. Hey Listen to This! Stories to Read Aloud. New York,
NY : Penguin Books, 1992.
- Trelease, Jim. Read All About It! : Great Read-aloud Stories, Poems,
and Newspaper Pieces for Preteens and Teens. New York : Penguin Books,
1993.
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