Introducing “Share A Story, Shape a Future”
This is a big week in the Kidlitosphere. The first ever “Share a Story, Shape a Future” week starts tomorrow. This week long effort aims to charge up adults everywhere with renewed enthusiasm and know-how for reading. A diverse team of reading enthusiasts, including teachers, librarians, parents and experts, will talk up books, swap fun ideas, gifts, and prizes and ramp-up their efforts to make frequent, quality reading time an easy and accessible part of the every child’s life. Here’s what’s in store:
Monday: Raising Readers
hosted by Terry Doherty at Scrub-a-Dub-Tub, the Reading Tub blog
- Finding Time at Home – Tricia Stohr-Hunt @ The Miss Rumphius Effect
- Making Time in the Classroom – Sarah Mulhern @ The Reading Zone
- Helping a Reader in Need (remedial readers) – Sandra Stiles guest posts on Scrub-a-Dub-Tub
- It’s Bigger than the Book: Building Strong Readers at any Age with a Daily Dose of Read Aloud – Cathy Miller interview on the Share a Story – Shape a Future blog
- Keeping Gifted Readers Engaged – Donalyn Miller @ The Book Whisperer
Tuesday: Selecting Reading Material
hosted by Sarah Mulhern at The Reading Zone
- The ABCs of Reading: Infants, Toddlers & Preschoolers – Valerie Baartz on The Almost Librarian
- How to Help Emerging Readers – Anastasia Suen @5 Great Books
- Helping Middle Grade Readers – Sarah Mulhern @ The Reading Zone
- Booklists and Read Alikes – Sarah Mulhern @ The Reading Zone
- Using Non-fiction - Mary Lee Hahn of A Year of Reading, hosted by the Stenhouse blog
Wednesday: Reading Aloud – It’s Fun, It’s Easy
hosted by Susan Stephenson at the Book Chook blog
- 10 Terrific Tips from Read-aloud Queen, Mem Fox – on the Book Chook blog
- Conquering Stage Fright – Interview with Sarah Mulhern/The Reading Zone @ the Book Chook
- Reading Aloud With Kids: A Dad’s Perspective – hosted by Steven and Brian at Book Dads: Fathers that Read
- Using Technology for Read Alouds – Sarah Mulhern @ The Reading Zone
- What to Do When the Reading is Done – Aimee Buckner, hosted by the Stenhouse blog
- Reading Aloud with Independent Readers – Donalyn Miller @ The Book Whisperer
hosted by Eva Mitnick at Eva’s Book Addiction blog
- From Cozy to Cool – Library Spaces for Everyone – Eva @ Eva’s Book Addiction
- Lions and Marble and Books, Oh My – Betsy Bird at A Fuse #8 Production
- How to Make the Library Work for YOU – an interview with Adrienne of What Adrienne Thinks About That conducted by Jules at Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast
- The World Beyond the Library’s Walls – Melissa @ Librarian by Day
- ABC Storytimes: Taking the Library Home – Pam Coughlan @ MotherReader
Friday: Technology and Reading – What the Future Holds
hosted by Elizabeth O. Dulemba at Dulemba.com
- Audiobooks with Bruce Coville of Full Cast Audio and Mary Burkey of Audiobooker
- E-books with Harold Underdown of The Purple Crayon and Sheila Ruth of Wands and Worlds
- Podcasts with Andrea Ross of Just One More Book! and Cheryl Rainfield of cherylrainfield.com
- A resource of links to audiobooks, e-books, podcasts and webcasts @ Dulemba.com.
Enjoy!
