HIT:ways to promote recreational reading

[Linda Slacum <lslacum@ccps.org>]

Colleagues,
Below is the Hit of ideas everyone shared with me about how they promote
recreational reading.  It is evident that we try a wide variety of
activities, some very traditional and others very creative.  I hope this
information helps revitalize you.

•host an annual Author's Day
•lunchtime book discussion groups
•informal promotion-for example, when new books came in I always opened
the boxes in front of kids in the library-few could resist looking at a
box of new books and if someone wanted to check out a book I processed
it on the spot
•books on display-whether standing cover out on the shelf; a group on
top of a low
book shelf or books on my book display furniture
•reading survey
•When a student writes he likes adventure books or says he liked Hatchet
I staple an adventure booklist to his survey which gets returned to him
•booklists on various genres: horror, mystery, sports
•booktalk still works-sometimes it isn't even around a theme just a
bunch of good books on a cart
•students know I love books and reading
•promote titles nominated for your state's book award
•I think kids like reading contemporary literature most
•We're doing 2000 books for 2000.  Everytime anyone at the school
(students and staff) reads a book, he/she writes the book title and his
name on a slip of construction paper.  We collect these strips and
number them in the library.  We're hanging them in the hallway and I
must say it looks GREAT!  After only a week we already have 430+ links
in our chain.
•participate in Teen Read Week, Read Across America,  Banned Books Week.

•occasionally do quick booktalks at daily morning class meetings or
broadcasted morning announcements.
•one on one reader guidance when individual students come to the library
to look for leisure/pleasure reading
• read all the new fiction before they go out on the shelves  . . .
intimately knowing the books as I do after reading them, I can come up
with suggestions for specific requests or interests.

--
Linda
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Mrs. Linda Slacum, Library Media Specialist
Cherry Hill Middle School
2535 Singerly Road, Elkton, MD 21921
410.996.5024   or  410.996.5020
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