[ISLMA-Share] Family Reading Night

[Email list for the Illinois School Library Media Association]

Okay, here's (maybe) "half a good idea."

How about a puzzle or "Break Out Room" style activity?

3-5 posters around the room contain an age level appropriate paragraph and
graphics -- short passages from the year's reading list.

Each poster ends with a question that gets solved from the information and
art preceding it.

For example, a paragraph from Winnie the Pooh with Piglet and a red balloon
and the question is "What color is the balloon?".

If each station includes a paragraph from some of the the year's reading
list, the activity promotes the school's reading programs while also
promoting parents reading to their kids.

If each answer is a color, and there's a table with colored squares (or
boxes) that must be put in order to "solve" the combination, the activity
creates engagement and memory. (Or maybe a sequence -- "cat", "dog",
"horse"...)

There's some questions on how to make it work with multiple grade levels,
for example.  But, it's a start -- "half a good idea".

Butch Wilson
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On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 10:34 AM, Email list for the Illinois School Library
Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> My brain has exhausted all ideas for Family Reading Night.  The theme this
> year is Read- For the Win.   Each classroom has to come up with an activity
> and everyone is asking me for ideas.   If anyone has done an activity with
> this theme in mind, will you please share?   I can't think of a better
> group to help .  Thanks in advance for any suggestions.   This will be for
> grades Pre-K through 4.
>
> Pat Sment
> John F. Kennedy School
> pattis at sv99.org
>
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