Read across America Day is the perfect day to get the community involved and increase awareness for providing a language rich environment at both school and home. I have created a free illustrating activity with a send home task for parents to ask students questions about the books they read. My hope is that by providing parents with these questions only once, they will use them again and again as they read to their own child in the home.
I used the activity in my therapy room for World Read Aloud Day last week. After sharing it with the faculty at my campus and hearing their enthusiasm, I decided to revamp it and make it a free activity in my store for Read Across America Day.
My district participated with districts all over the world...for our students to experience this day to it's fullest. I took a few pictures of the amazing illustrations that I saw one class making about the story that was read to them from a teacher in Missouri.
In speech, we read Fox in Socks. The students picked their favorite part of the book, illustrated, and re-told that portion to their friends. We even sequenced them in order to retell the whole story. I was so proud of their illustrations:
