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After-school Treasure Reading
by carolg
May 26, 2008
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 kid...See More
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