My school's literacy team is creating R-E-A-D-O cards to send home at
every grade level (1-5) to encourage summer reading. Prizes will be
awarded in some way for filling the card. (This idea is still in the
planning stages.)The team members worked on creating the cards and
asked me to proof them. I think that the cards need more variation
and wondered if anyone has anything or this type or knows of a
similar idea that I could pass on to the team. The main thrust of the
team is to improve literacy within our 90 minute reading block and
extra hour of reading intervention time for those who need it. We
have a three year grant and are heavily involved with phonics, the
Voyager program and the Read Naturally program in addition to the
reading series.
The cards had general categories and specific authors, but I think
that team members just sat down for a half hour to create them and
just did them off the top of their heads, so to speak. I am going to
make some suggestions, but am pressed for time due to a schoolwide
expo that I am involved with until early May and thought that this
idea might be out in LM_Net land somewhere (in some form.)
I would personally prefer to have authors on the cards that have more
readable text (I am thinking of the mysteries by Cynthia Rylant and I
Can Read books, for example), instead of "popular" authors such as
Marc Brown and Norman Bridwell that have been translated into TV
shows or videos. But I could be on the wrong track...I just not have
had the time to research this idea.
I would appreciate any and all who could help. I will pass on your
ideas to the team.
Thanks,
Deb Hendrickson
Deborah J. Hendrickson
Media Specialist/Technology Leader/Teacher-Librarian
Westernport Elementary School
172 Church Street
Westernport, MD 21562
301-722-6214
DHendrickson@allconet.org
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