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Plan Now for Summer Reading
May is Get Caught Reading Month, and it's time to start making your plans to encourage students to keep reading once classes are over. Try these resources to get your students involved in independent reading all summer long.

Honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Your Classroom
See these NCTE and ReadWriteThink resources.

Connecting to Summer Reading This Fall
A recent McKinney Courier-Gazette article, "Reading More of a Pleasure than Requirement for Teenagers," reports that "Some high school students are required to read during the summer, but Helen Talley said more teens are choosing to read on their own." Whether you asked students to read something specific or just to keep reading, it's time to decide what to do when these readers return to the classroom.

Using Movies to Improve Visual Literacy
A recent Washington Post article "The Eye Generation Prefers Not to Read All About It" explores the importance of supporting visual literacy in the classroom. As the article explains, "students today need to be taught, through images, how to think critically." This week's Ideas provide some resources to support the visual literacy activities that the article calls for.

Summer Activities to Keep Kids Learning
June 21 is the first day of summer, and what better time to think about the many ways that families, tutors, summer school teachers, and other literacy volunteers can keep kids learning all summer long. ReadWriteThink's new Learning Beyond the Classroom section provides summer activities that educators can complete with their own children or share with families looking for ways to support summer learning. Try these summer activities to get started!

Last-Day and Summer Activities
School is winding down across the United States. As students and teachers prepare for some well-deserved time out of the classroom, these activities provide useful options to last-day discussions and projects.

Performing Poetry
It's National Poetry Month. Take advantage of the celebration by asking students to dramatize poems, both in the classroom and beyond the walls of the school. These lesson plans and classroom-ready resources suggest ways to bring performance to your exploration of poetry.

Best Practices in Portfolios
The Conference on College Composition and Communication is considering adoption of a best practices statement on e-portfolios (see the News article in the March 27, 2007, INBOX). This week's Ideas bring you a collection of resources that explore how teachers use portfolios successfully from the elementary to college classroom (and in their own professional portfolios as well).

Get Ready to Celebrate Read Across America Day!
Theodor Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, was born on March 3, 1904. Mark his birthday with NEA's Read Across America, the largest reading event in the United States. For background on the event and additional information, visit the ReadWriteThink Calendar Entry, and use these activities to explore reading and celebrate Dr. Seuss with students.

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