Post: After-school Treasure Reading
Posted by carolg on 5/26/08
Just thought you might like to know about my after-school
Treasure Reading on Friday. It was a fun event and
something that anyone could do. I sent out about 100
invitations to first- and second-graders in my after-
school Happy Feet club. I used my chapter book The Treasure
of Health and Happiness, but you could do this with ANY
chapter book if you could acquire a bunch of copies.
I served make-your-own strawberry shortcake and bought all
of the participants (about 15 signed up) notebooks (very
inexpensive) and pens. I taped a note on the notebooks
about being a writer/illustrator.
Then we read a few chapters of the book. I mostly read it
aloud, but the children followed along and read some of the
fun, serious, or "sinister" parts with me. After 6 chapters
we took a break and the kids wrote or illustrated in their
author/artist notebooks. They shared their writings/art and
then we read a few more chapters. It was 5:00 too soon. We
didn't finish the book, so the kids who didn't own a copy
borrowed to read at home with their parents.
I do this once or twice a year. It's a fun event and the
children seemed very attentive. You don't have to be an
author to do this, just a teacher who loves literature. I
had the extra copies of books from my club, but you could
use any book and if your school doesn't have them you could
charge a fee. If anyone plans a literature happening like
this, please let me know. It was fun for the kids and very
rewarding for me.
carol's author/illustrator/teacher site
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