Ideas

What can we do to go beyond just handing out lists? 1) Our students blogged their favorite books of the year in order to practice blogging during the summer. Not such great response during the summer months BUT the first week/s of school students added responses. [|Check it out].

2) It would be great if we could get an author(s) to come out to the field house for a summer reading kick-off event. Kind of like the read-in a few years ago. Perhaps we could coordinate with the public library to assist with financing the event/authors. We could feature some of the books on the lists. Perhaps Barnes and Noble could be there to sell some of the books (city-wide book fair). The Kick-off could get publicity (Channel 8 could send an mc) we could hand out the lists, reading logs, etc. (Lucia Rafala)

3) Find books for grade level lists with characters that are in that grade! This was GAIL'S idea.

4) How about taking the interest inventory from Igniting a Passion for Reading and making it a survey using surveymonkey? Suggestion: Add a list of this year's Newbery and Caldecott winners.